{"id":6683,"date":"2011-08-25T07:51:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T12:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6683"},"modified":"2011-08-25T07:51:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T12:51:49","slug":"californians_smarter_in_at_least_one_aspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/08\/californians_smarter_in_at_least_one_aspect.html","title":{"rendered":"Californians Smarter In At Least One Aspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But don&#8217;t worry, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/25\/nyregion\/from-california-some-advice-on-handling-the-next-quake.html\">we&#8217;ll get it right the next time the once-in-a-100-years event happens<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Kelly Huston, assistant secretary of the California Emergency Management Agency, said that watching New Yorkers evacuate on television was &#8220;unsettling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you think about it, the plate-glass windows above them have a potential for shattering,&#8221; Mr. Huston said in a telephone interview on Wednesday. &#8220;That glass has to go somewhere. And it&#8217;ll hit people trying to come out of a building.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What New Yorkers should do, he said, is what Californians are told to do: drop under &#8220;anything sturdy&#8221; and &#8220;brace yourself until the shaking stops.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That so many New Yorkers did not seem to know what to do should not be that surprising given the e-mail that arrived at Mr. Huston&#8217;s home early Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>New York City officials wanted a conference call because they needed advice on what earthquake instructions they should give the public the next time.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But don&#8217;t worry, we&#8217;ll get it right the next time the once-in-a-100-years event happens: Kelly Huston, assistant secretary of the California Emergency Management Agency, said that watching New Yorkers evacuate on television was &#8220;unsettling.&#8221; &#8220;If you think about it, the plate-glass windows above them have a potential for shattering,&#8221; Mr. Huston said in a telephone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-were_all_gonna_die"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6684,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683\/revisions\/6684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}