Quicky -

[kyburg]

Because I expect today to be much like yesterday -

Folks in the Bay Area, dealing with that freeway overpass collapse? I don't know whether to throw up the 1 or the 20 die icon - because on one hand, SHIT and on the other? Nobody died? Holy chrome.

Some things just gotta happen, I guess. If you ever needed a lesson in what would happen if someone actually, yanno, wanted to disrupt the city by driving something explosive into a overpass support - now you know.

The guvenator pays for mass transit, people cope and nobody throws a shoe.

And life is still in progress. Neat!

*zips off to work*

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Like the LA area, we have enough potential for random turmoil here (e.g. quakes that bring down freeways, the section that the melty bits fell on, this time, were 1990s replacements for part of the collapsed section from '89) that we have become used to backup plans. Can't use the bridge? Add a ferry, add a BART train, add 30 minutes to your commute.

If the crash had happened at rush hour, the trucker would have been going too slowly for such an accident. It happened in the wee hours, so he could go full speed (no clear evidence yet on whether he was speeding, might not have been) but no one else, amazingly, was there, that spot is only rarely completely clear. deyo once had his gas pedal fail almost exactly in that spot, and managed to rig a shoelace + shoe getup that he could use to work the gas petal, just amazing -- complicated and amazing story and result -- while stopped in the lane, and miraculously, no one came up behind him while he was doing it. The worst scenario might have been around midnight or 5 am, when traffic was moderate, fast enough that the crash could have happened, but busy enough to have hurt other people.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

As I said, the only thing I can tell is that it's extreme luck. Good or Bad? You tell me. If you wrote this as part of a story, nobody would believe you.

[snobahr.livejournal.com]

I'm in a pulp gaming campaign, and my character has "blond luck." Basically, in some situations, the GM will have me roll 3d6. She will roll 3d6 as well. I want to roll sixes. I want her not to roll ones.

If I roll sixes, Good Things™ happen (Our characters just survived a head-on car-crash, while rushing to a specific location. I rolled a six (and she didn't roll a one), when my character lifted her hand out of our car's wreckage, and exclaimed, "Taxi!" - my six had a taxi available). If she rolls ones, Bad Things™ happen (Everyone else makes it across the chasm on the rope bridge. My turn across the bridge, and the rope breaks, as I'm directly over the crocodiles).

Sounds like the city made its Blond Luck roll.

[dracowayfarer.livejournal.com]

You know, I didn't vote for Arnold. Despite my misgivings, he has impressed me here and there.

[mdlbear]

One of the great things about living in California is that we're (usually) pretty well-prepared for an emergency -- most of us got our earthquake-preparedness mindset together when we moved here (or in some cases when our great grandparents moved here), and after that we just don't have to think about it very much.

It leads, I think, to a very healthy attitude about the risks of terrorism. Truck bomb disrupting a critical freeway interchange? OK, we can handle that. Ten simultaneous truck bombs? Done that, too. Firestorm? Heck, we've had over 100 years to get ready for the next one...