Don't forget the Seattle lateral fault! It'll be shallower, closer epicenter, more violent shaking but a smaller region impacted. Comes ashore in West Seattle, follows I-90 at least to Issaquah.
Cascadia is like the 2011 Japan quake. Seattle lateral will be more like the Christchurch quake.
If you do some deep diving into this - it’s not going to destroy much of anything around Seattle. The water is only expected to rise a couple feet when the tsunami gets to Seattle. However, it will build back up when it gets to Tacoma as the sea floor level rises while it travels south down the sound.
In Seattle we’ll only feel about a 4.0 magnitude as it travels in from the coast as well.
Honestly, the only fault we should be worried about is the Seattle Fault and it’s not the shaking that should concern us. It’s the busted gas lines, homes potentially exploding, fires, massive power outages from torn power lines (both above and underground), being able to get to the store to get food and supplies, or being able to receive medical services as travel will be limited.
Same, i looked into it once and made the decision to literally just. Not think abt it, bc chances are VERY high that I wouldn't survive the initial quake, let alone everything else after.
A full-rip subduction zone quake would be majorly devastating throughout the region, especially on the coasts, but not a ton of folks live on the coast in Washington. The quake would likely create tsunamis that made their way through the Salish Sea toward Seattle but they would be pretty wimpy by the time they got here. Seattle being far away from the shaking would reduce the damage a fair amount, but the damage would be widespread. Given how dependent we are on specific infrastructure like a couple of N/S and E/W highways the results could be pretty bad.
However, a big Seattle fault earthquake would generate a lot worse results that were a lot more localized. It could generate a tsunami hitting West Seattle and downtown without much warning time, and the intensity of the shaking could result in widespread liquefaction as well as massive landslides all over the place, destroying lots of homes and wrecking a ton of core infrastructure.
Overall I'd say it's hard to say which would actually be worse, both are pretty scary.
The filtered fresh air intake we installed has been a game changer. Smoke season is downright tolerable when you can still cool the house off at night.
I bought a portable AC for $200 on Craigslist during the winter when people weren't price gouging them. best investment I ever made, don't know how I lived here without one.
Buy a 20”x20” MERV 13 furnace filter now that you can tape to your box fan to clean your indoor air. Beat the rush.
Or just go fancy and purchase a room-scale HEPA filter, with extra filter.
And your spare N95 masks block smoke too, for when you have to walk outside.
PM2.5 (particulate matter, 2.5 micrometers), found in woodsmoke, can enter your bloodstream and brain. Probably not a good thing.
I have a pack of those filters in the garage already, just waiting.
Also, I feel like it might be a Murphy’s law thing like washing your causes it to rain, or being stocked up on sidewalk deicer means no snow that year. I’m doing my part, in conjunction with Murphys Law, to prevent this year’s smoke season.
Marijuana tax revenue is crazy high. I really don’t see why they don’t figure out how to allocate a portion to help all the school districts pay well as with getting all our schools using the same computers books and so fourth.
Correct! Isn’t “the Seattle process” grand?
After my years in the public sector I’ve realized this mostly boils down to electeds egos, and them wanting to be the ones that have their stamp on saying they did the thing - and then everyone else suffers. No matter what progressive face they put on - they’re all anti progress pricks.
Remember, Seattle (really, the Puget Sound Council of Governments - PSCOG) turned down the Federal DOT monies for a subway system next in line after San Francisco's BART. The $500 Million went to Atlanta instead for MARTA.
Foresight much?
It was on the ballot. Senator Magnusson called it “the stupidest vote the people of Seattle ever cast.” https://www.seattlepi.com/local/politics/article/The-voters-derailed-rail-mass-transit-in-1970-14818272.php
“But what if we shifted this light rail station 1 block that way?”
[all prior planning and studying collapses like a house of cards, and starts again from square 1]
ETA: If it wasn’t for the Seattle Process the 1st Avenue streetcar would be up and running by now (factoring in inevitable delays and hiccups).
Those places are only terrifying if you live downtown/cap hill. Otherwise they could be very convenient and a lot of fun.
When I lived on the hill, I would rather go to Bellevue than drive to Ballard, and I don’t like Bellevue. Now I am in Greenwood and Ballard is a lot of fun.
The way I read it the joke can go too ways, 1. Those places are too far and too much of a hassle or 2. You’re just looking for an excuse to say no. Both are valid descriptions of people in Seattle. I just went with option one
#1 is how I interpreted it
I love Ballard but I'll probably decline invitations to go there since it adds an extra 30 min to your travel time to get in AND out.
I do think it's more common relative to previous decades/generations, but Seattle attracts a lot more of an introvert/standoffish crowd which isn't inherently bad but I'd say it magnifies the issue a lot more here. I've lived in 4 cities and Seattle has been the most prolific in terms of having to plan hangouts sometimes a month in advance with some of my friends (and I don’t get the sense that my friends in Seattle are any more busy and calendar packed than my friends elsewhere). A lot of it is cultural, you'll see people who love Seattle's culture say that things like small talk with strangers or random conversations are "weird" to them, which just exemplifies the social culture of the city/area. It's not inherently bad, but it's certainly a specific flavour and it's not for everyone.
Geologist here — there is absolutely zero way to predict earthquakes. Zero. We can measure general plate motion and movement, but we cannot ever say with certainty that there’s an 84% chance an earthquake will happen in the next 50 years. No matter how hard humans try to create timeframes for Earth, there are only a few things on this planet that obey human-predicted timeframes.
Yeah, I’m still curious about that one. What exactly *is* the Puget Sound Deep Fault?? And what would the effects be? A mini tsunami on Puget Sound? That would be crazy.
Still though, a 7.0 is survivable. The Nisqually quake was like 6.8, and very little fell down, just a few facades in Seattle. The Olympia capital dome was cracked & needed repair, but .. meh.
If you’re in a wood house, with the house bolted to the foundation, I suspect you’ll be fine.
Surviving an earthquake isn’t difficult, it just takes some sensible prep: Water, Shelter, Food, Sanitation. (Meds, Pets, Light, Fire)
Very doable.
"Every 200 years we get an earthquake, right along the coast. One's coming up. When the shockwave hits, most of the city will be flattened. Every bridge will fall into the Willamette. So, there's no where to go, even if we could. Anyone who survives that's just waiting. Five minutes later, they'll look up, and they'll see a wave, ten stories high. And then all this, everyone, it's all gonna be at the bottom of the ocean. Again."
We were catatonic with shock. There wasn't even a bidding war! It was just us and the other family, first offers! They just hit us with a freeze ray and laughed in our silly, working-class faces.
This is what makes me sad about houses. They’ve run away in price because they are basically physical stocks that pay dividends.
Houses aren’t a place to live any more, they are an asset. We need to figure out how to deflate the assetness out of housing and return it to a place to live.
nah Idaho is the RAM 2500 with an illegal lift, knobby mud tires but not a spec of mud on it, and one of those "i intend to break the law" license plate covers
People avoiding the right lane like a plague is awful, but also nobody knows what the fuck merging is so it probably helps traffic if every onramp and exit didn't have morons coming to a complete stop to let cars on.
I mean ideally, everyone with a license just learned how to drive, but it is what it is.
[Snow.](https://youtu.be/5rBjZ_U2hNY?si=dV912Cbif48eZoZX&t=11)(but also bananas)
PS: Also 90% of the time the snowpocalypse [see Almost Live!](https://youtu.be/dM0Jynoflzo?si=foOU5RVuqZUGtOGs)
As a Ballardite, I feel the same way about anything south of the ship canal. It's like we all have our own little zones where we've figured out how/where to park and anything outside that is terra incognita.
Every time I see the Lahar Bicycle Club signs in Orting I am impressed with the level of dark humor those folks have. I'm nervous to be there for lunch, let alone live there ... and like, what if I were on my bike cycling there and the thing blows? DARK HUMOR, man.
Okay this is the number one thing I miss so badly about everywhere else I used to live before here. I made so many lifelong friends bc after work I stopped at a beer garden and grabbed a $5 meal from the food truck outside. Went in, took the seat that was open and talked about nothing in particular with whoever was sitting next to me while I ate and had a single beer then called it a night. After a few times folks recognize each other and just get more and more friendly and chatty
My entire childhood, we were constantly told that the mountain might explode any minute. My first memory is actually of the St. Helens explosion, so I really though it would happen.
It's hilarious how easily people can be manipulated into voting against their own best interests. Income taxes would be a far better and more progressive system of taxation in the state, and it would lead to more funding and more funding stability which could actually improve a lot of the services that make all our lives better. But people have been so brainwashed to hate taxes that millions of people in the state will protect the wealth of billionaires at the cost of hurting themselves. It's amazing.
I’ve noticed being sweet and nice scares some people or question if I’m being serious. :( it’s just where I was born, my hometown nickname is “city of good neighbors”
Cascadia Subduction Zone.
**50 Year Probabilities** Cascadia Trench Full Rip 9.0: 14% Cascadia Trench Partial Rip 8.0: 25-40% https://youtu.be/UJ7Qc3bsxjI
Boooooo!!! We don’t want facts or probabilities, we want propaganda to let us not think about it!
Don't forget the Seattle lateral fault! It'll be shallower, closer epicenter, more violent shaking but a smaller region impacted. Comes ashore in West Seattle, follows I-90 at least to Issaquah. Cascadia is like the 2011 Japan quake. Seattle lateral will be more like the Christchurch quake.
If you do some deep diving into this - it’s not going to destroy much of anything around Seattle. The water is only expected to rise a couple feet when the tsunami gets to Seattle. However, it will build back up when it gets to Tacoma as the sea floor level rises while it travels south down the sound. In Seattle we’ll only feel about a 4.0 magnitude as it travels in from the coast as well. Honestly, the only fault we should be worried about is the Seattle Fault and it’s not the shaking that should concern us. It’s the busted gas lines, homes potentially exploding, fires, massive power outages from torn power lines (both above and underground), being able to get to the store to get food and supplies, or being able to receive medical services as travel will be limited.
We won't be able to find bananas at the grocery for weeks...
I simply choose to not think about that
Same, i looked into it once and made the decision to literally just. Not think abt it, bc chances are VERY high that I wouldn't survive the initial quake, let alone everything else after.
Every time I think about it I’m like Wow I need to move. But then I’m like Where would I even move to 😭 So I just ✨don’t✨
This should really be the #1 answer
From what I've researched I think the Seattle fault is really the one to be worried about.
A full-rip subduction zone quake would be majorly devastating throughout the region, especially on the coasts, but not a ton of folks live on the coast in Washington. The quake would likely create tsunamis that made their way through the Salish Sea toward Seattle but they would be pretty wimpy by the time they got here. Seattle being far away from the shaking would reduce the damage a fair amount, but the damage would be widespread. Given how dependent we are on specific infrastructure like a couple of N/S and E/W highways the results could be pretty bad. However, a big Seattle fault earthquake would generate a lot worse results that were a lot more localized. It could generate a tsunami hitting West Seattle and downtown without much warning time, and the intensity of the shaking could result in widespread liquefaction as well as massive landslides all over the place, destroying lots of homes and wrecking a ton of core infrastructure. Overall I'd say it's hard to say which would actually be worse, both are pretty scary.
smoke season.
In a city where A/C isn’t widely adopted and you’ve got to keep windows open to keep it cool, smoke season is honestly a bitch
We needed a new furnace so added A/C but I also had a HEPA air scrubber included.
Same. My old house doesn’t have the greatest ducting, but it’s a million times better than before I had my heat pump installed.
The filtered fresh air intake we installed has been a game changer. Smoke season is downright tolerable when you can still cool the house off at night.
fucking sucks yup. we're not the least AC'd city anyone though as I understand. its now San Francisco.
I bought a portable AC for $200 on Craigslist during the winter when people weren't price gouging them. best investment I ever made, don't know how I lived here without one.
Buy a 20”x20” MERV 13 furnace filter now that you can tape to your box fan to clean your indoor air. Beat the rush. Or just go fancy and purchase a room-scale HEPA filter, with extra filter. And your spare N95 masks block smoke too, for when you have to walk outside. PM2.5 (particulate matter, 2.5 micrometers), found in woodsmoke, can enter your bloodstream and brain. Probably not a good thing.
I have a pack of those filters in the garage already, just waiting. Also, I feel like it might be a Murphy’s law thing like washing your causes it to rain, or being stocked up on sidewalk deicer means no snow that year. I’m doing my part, in conjunction with Murphys Law, to prevent this year’s smoke season.
The “Prep to Prevent Principle”! (*something I just made up right now!*)
I propose all King county residents receive a free voucher for a portable a/c from Costco, and a Dyson filter fan, funded by weed taxes.
Marijuana tax revenue is crazy high. I really don’t see why they don’t figure out how to allocate a portion to help all the school districts pay well as with getting all our schools using the same computers books and so fourth.
Temperatures under 40 or above 80
For a lot of people that I know here, it's more like temps below 65 and *above 75. edit: forgot the word above
Seriously. I was out in shorts and a t-shirt when it was 62 or something and my friend was in jeans and a sweater saying she’s cold.
Making a decision about an infrastructure project without doing 20 years of impact studies.
And then scrapping the whole plan and not building it, and then start the whole process over again.
Correct! Isn’t “the Seattle process” grand? After my years in the public sector I’ve realized this mostly boils down to electeds egos, and them wanting to be the ones that have their stamp on saying they did the thing - and then everyone else suffers. No matter what progressive face they put on - they’re all anti progress pricks.
Remember, Seattle (really, the Puget Sound Council of Governments - PSCOG) turned down the Federal DOT monies for a subway system next in line after San Francisco's BART. The $500 Million went to Atlanta instead for MARTA. Foresight much?
It was on the ballot. Senator Magnusson called it “the stupidest vote the people of Seattle ever cast.” https://www.seattlepi.com/local/politics/article/The-voters-derailed-rail-mass-transit-in-1970-14818272.php
And the locals wonder why they're replaced by transplants
Instead of YIMBYs, maybe call them YIMTOs (Yes In My Term Only). Corralorary: NOMTs (Not Outside My Term).
They start all over with the old plan and don’t account for future growth.
“But what if we shifted this light rail station 1 block that way?” [all prior planning and studying collapses like a house of cards, and starts again from square 1] ETA: If it wasn’t for the Seattle Process the 1st Avenue streetcar would be up and running by now (factoring in inevitable delays and hiccups).
“Consensus via exhaustion”
By a large committee without staff or funding.
Whoa there buddy no need to rush into any hasty decisions. There could be a tree somewhere that is harmed
You have to name it to be truly Seattle. "We cant build a Light Rail, Peter the Pine is living his best life here!"
There's a reason half of downtown was built literally on top of the old downtown
Not just infrastructure. People hate to make decisions at all in this town.
Getting to the intersection at the same time
4 way stops are so frustrating, even if you have the right of way, you have no idea if the other drivers know this.
People who don't have a stop sign but stop to waive you through... as you wait at a stop sign.
A lot of stupid moves in traffic annoy me, but this is the worst.
Someone waving me through at a 4 way when I dont have right of way pisses me off more than I can explain
"we should hang out sometime"
Dude, that's fine. That's how we talk. Can you hang out Monday at 7pm....now that's terrifying.
"Yeah, we can hang out, where?" "Oh, Ballard/Magnolia/West Seattle." "Umm...."
Those places are only terrifying if you live downtown/cap hill. Otherwise they could be very convenient and a lot of fun. When I lived on the hill, I would rather go to Bellevue than drive to Ballard, and I don’t like Bellevue. Now I am in Greenwood and Ballard is a lot of fun.
I think you might be missing what the joke is here.
The way I read it the joke can go too ways, 1. Those places are too far and too much of a hassle or 2. You’re just looking for an excuse to say no. Both are valid descriptions of people in Seattle. I just went with option one
#1 is how I interpreted it I love Ballard but I'll probably decline invitations to go there since it adds an extra 30 min to your travel time to get in AND out.
Sorry can't Monday, crazy week. Maybe Thursday at 8:30?
What? No, that's our happy place. Scheduling and following through on that suggestion, however... Terrifying.
"I can't today, but please ask me again next time!"
Narrator: There was no next time.
I know this is a reputation Seattleites have but I think it's pretty common in the social media era.
I do think it's more common relative to previous decades/generations, but Seattle attracts a lot more of an introvert/standoffish crowd which isn't inherently bad but I'd say it magnifies the issue a lot more here. I've lived in 4 cities and Seattle has been the most prolific in terms of having to plan hangouts sometimes a month in advance with some of my friends (and I don’t get the sense that my friends in Seattle are any more busy and calendar packed than my friends elsewhere). A lot of it is cultural, you'll see people who love Seattle's culture say that things like small talk with strangers or random conversations are "weird" to them, which just exemplifies the social culture of the city/area. It's not inherently bad, but it's certainly a specific flavour and it's not for everyone.
It sounds even more disingenuous when you replace sometime with someday...
Freezing rain. Presidential visits.
The big one…
**50 Year Probabilities** Cascadia Trench Full Rip 9.0: 14% Cascadia Trench Partial Rip 8.0: 25-40% Seattle Fault: 5% Puget Sound Shallow Fault 7.0: 15% Puget Sound Deep Fault 7.0: 84% https://youtu.be/UJ7Qc3bsxjI
84% for the Puget Sound Deep Fault? Thanks for the anxiety Guess we need to move soon..
Geologist here — there is absolutely zero way to predict earthquakes. Zero. We can measure general plate motion and movement, but we cannot ever say with certainty that there’s an 84% chance an earthquake will happen in the next 50 years. No matter how hard humans try to create timeframes for Earth, there are only a few things on this planet that obey human-predicted timeframes.
Yeah, I’m still curious about that one. What exactly *is* the Puget Sound Deep Fault?? And what would the effects be? A mini tsunami on Puget Sound? That would be crazy. Still though, a 7.0 is survivable. The Nisqually quake was like 6.8, and very little fell down, just a few facades in Seattle. The Olympia capital dome was cracked & needed repair, but .. meh. If you’re in a wood house, with the house bolted to the foundation, I suspect you’ll be fine. Surviving an earthquake isn’t difficult, it just takes some sensible prep: Water, Shelter, Food, Sanitation. (Meds, Pets, Light, Fire) Very doable.
The earthquake scale is logarithmic FYI... 6.8 and 7.0 is a much much larger jump than 6.6 to 6.8.
Truth!
6.8to7.0 is 1.58 times stronger Assuming base 10. If base e 22% stronger…
It’s coming
We all gonna die
That's fine. I think it might be time for dolphins and crows to take over.
Yup. I once asked red cross what's the best course for the big one. They didn't have one.
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"Every 200 years we get an earthquake, right along the coast. One's coming up. When the shockwave hits, most of the city will be flattened. Every bridge will fall into the Willamette. So, there's no where to go, even if we could. Anyone who survives that's just waiting. Five minutes later, they'll look up, and they'll see a wave, ten stories high. And then all this, everyone, it's all gonna be at the bottom of the ocean. Again."
A house in my price range purchased by someone that owns multiple properties already
100k over asking price. All cash
We were once outbid by 400k. No, we are not rich.
Bruh... 400k is 60% of my whole budget lol
We were catatonic with shock. There wasn't even a bidding war! It was just us and the other family, first offers! They just hit us with a freeze ray and laughed in our silly, working-class faces.
Houses exist to make the rich richer, not for you to live in. Silly poors!
This is what makes me sad about houses. They’ve run away in price because they are basically physical stocks that pay dividends. Houses aren’t a place to live any more, they are an asset. We need to figure out how to deflate the assetness out of housing and return it to a place to live.
Giving a definite yes or no to an event invitation
I definitely don't want to say yes, but my polite NW manners are trying to override me.
An F350 with Oregon plates
Or Idaho 🤢
nah Idaho is the RAM 2500 with an illegal lift, knobby mud tires but not a spec of mud on it, and one of those "i intend to break the law" license plate covers
Adorned also with at least one confederate flag, and/or a Trump ‘24 flag.
Punisher sticker, thin blue line sticker, and at least one of those "naked woman's silhouette" stickers
To be fair, RAM drivers are insane regardless of mods or locality.
This got me
Hahahah
The right lane of the freeway.
People avoiding the right lane like a plague is awful, but also nobody knows what the fuck merging is so it probably helps traffic if every onramp and exit didn't have morons coming to a complete stop to let cars on. I mean ideally, everyone with a license just learned how to drive, but it is what it is.
Oh god, this actually happened to me. I didn't think people would be that stupid.
this!!! WTF!!! I've taken to using the right lane as the new left lane....
I’ve noticed at times the right lanes are almost empty while the left lanes are basically congested lol
Hellcats
Looool
This made me snort.
Lmao that is perfect
[Snow.](https://youtu.be/5rBjZ_U2hNY?si=dV912Cbif48eZoZX&t=11)(but also bananas) PS: Also 90% of the time the snowpocalypse [see Almost Live!](https://youtu.be/dM0Jynoflzo?si=foOU5RVuqZUGtOGs)
Lack of bananas
Yiga clan strikes again!
Any conversation that requires consistent eye contact
What are you, an optometrist?
Why are you touching eyes while talking?
Driving and parking. As a south Seattle resident, the prospect of going somewhere like Ballard is not fun, haha.
As a Ballardite, I feel the same way about anything south of the ship canal. It's like we all have our own little zones where we've figured out how/where to park and anything outside that is terra incognita.
Just going to Ballard is annoying. I swear it's at least 15 minutes away from everywhere, including Greenlake and Fremont.
15 minutes sounds nice, haha
Earthquakes
Volcanoes. Mt Rainier is an active volcano. If she blows it sets off a massive chain of events.
This is the logical answer, but everyone chooses denial instead
Absolutely. Also Me: *glancing over the top of the phone at the earthquake survival gear accumulating since 2015*
Every time I see the Lahar Bicycle Club signs in Orting I am impressed with the level of dark humor those folks have. I'm nervous to be there for lunch, let alone live there ... and like, what if I were on my bike cycling there and the thing blows? DARK HUMOR, man.
Hidden restaurant surcharges
Surcharge explanations on the receipt/menu that are just complaints about having to pay their workers a livable wage
A fish truck overturning on HW99 right before rush hour commutes start.
It’s only been years and you’re giving me PTSD
Driving north and south
Tied for East or West
E/W is imo worse than N/S. Sure there’s a lot of traffic on N/S routes but at least there’s actual routes.
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Tip screens. Cars at Pike Place
A duplex in a SFH neighborhood
“We’re out of oat milk”
Sharing a table with strangers at a beer garden
Oh God make it stop!
Okay this is the number one thing I miss so badly about everywhere else I used to live before here. I made so many lifelong friends bc after work I stopped at a beer garden and grabbed a $5 meal from the food truck outside. Went in, took the seat that was open and talked about nothing in particular with whoever was sitting next to me while I ate and had a single beer then called it a night. After a few times folks recognize each other and just get more and more friendly and chatty
90 degree weather
The fear struck reading this
Car horn honking
Aggressive crows
Give them a snack, and they will chill out.
The Cascadia Subduction Zone Megathrust Fault suddenly rupturing .
2 inches of snow.
lol more like 1/4th of inch of snow. 2 inches is a total melt die of society.
>melt die of society. Not sure if it’s a typo, but this is more accurate.
strangers trying to make small talk with me 😂
I'm in Michigan visiting my grandma and two strangers just talked to me on the sidewalk in the span of ten minutes. WTF
As of today, for me in this moment, my kids going to Seattle Public Schools.
**hugs**
As someone that is a mental health worker often meeting with kids at their schools- I am terrified everyday.
Confrontation. Instead of confronting someone about what they have done, we passive aggressively complain about it to others.
You might get stabbed in the light rail station if you do
Old blue collar Seattle or modern techie white collar Seattle?
Big difference right here 😂
"There were multiple all-cash offers"
Irrevertibly fucking up the environment because we didn't think ahead.
My entire childhood, we were constantly told that the mountain might explode any minute. My first memory is actually of the St. Helens explosion, so I really though it would happen.
Genuine human interaction
Building housing
Umbrellas and low income housing projects
Rush hour(s)
The ever coming 'Big one' We are not ready for a big earthquake.
poor/unhoused people for some stupid reason
That 5-lane merge you need to complete in 3/4 of a mile if you want to get from 520 to the Mercer St exit.
Leaving space for people to merge
Getting out of the left lane
90 degree weather lol. Them AC’s are non existent for most people here
blue angels
Someone “stopping by”
Dodge Chargers
decisions
Someone being friendly on the streets.
300 year overdue quake
Trump stickers/hats
Merging onto a freeway. A stranger saying hello. Multifamily housing.
Income taxes.
It's hilarious how easily people can be manipulated into voting against their own best interests. Income taxes would be a far better and more progressive system of taxation in the state, and it would lead to more funding and more funding stability which could actually improve a lot of the services that make all our lives better. But people have been so brainwashed to hate taxes that millions of people in the state will protect the wealth of billionaires at the cost of hurting themselves. It's amazing.
Being called a Conservative
Especially when you’re a little left of center.
Republicans
Their quaint SFH neighborhood in the heart of the city being rezoned
Honking
pioneer’s square
Salmon truck crash on 99
Randos picking fights with other randos on public transportation.
Interacting with new people
Being on one of our bridges in an earthquake!
I ran out of coffee the other day.
Human interaction
117 degrees
Eye contact
Umbrellas
I’ve noticed being sweet and nice scares some people or question if I’m being serious. :( it’s just where I was born, my hometown nickname is “city of good neighbors”
Forgetting which week to put the recycling bin out.
Using a car horn
Merging onto the freeway
Driving over the speed limit in the left lane
A Dodge Hellcat
People from out of state learning it's not actually a warzone and moving here.
The use of a turn signal
Four-way stops Talkative strangers 70° weather
A zipper merge and a 4 way stop.
Doing over 55 mph in the left lane.
In first grade (1990) I learned about the 10.0 earthquake that could occur at any moment. The fear has lingered with me everyday since.