Joe: When I first moved here, it was, uh, about five years after the Loma Prieta earthquake, which was a very big earthquake here. And, um, there are a lot of people who lived here who I met who had actually been living in the area when the earthquake hit. So it was interesting to get their perspective…
Kristin: Oh.
Joe: …and, uh, it also like made me remember where I was when I heard about the Loma Prieta earthquake. I was watching the World Series on TV. And, uh, y’know, it was, uh, taking place in San Francisco. So, uh, as I’m watching it suddenly the announcer starts, uh, uh, saying, “Wow, I think we’re feeling an earthquake here.”. And the cameras started shaking. And, uh, all of a sudden the TV coverage cut out. So, uh, y’know, I wanted to get a rundown on what happened. So I turned to the news station and, uh, within a few minutes they were discussing this gigantic earthquake that had hit San Francisco. And they started showing pictures, uh, maybe thirty minutes later, of these people who were, uh, trying to weed through the rubble of these buildings that had been, like, coming down. So, I mean, it was…
Kristin: Oh, wow.
Joe: …it was pretty scary, I’ll tell you what…
Kristin: Yeah.
Joe: …y’know.
Kristin: Yeah, well, um, you know the three months I was living in Japan I experienced two. Both of those were very different, uh, very different from the one I’d experienced here and also very different from the one in Bangkok. But one of ‘em, I was actually up in my apartment, which was on the fifth floor of a building. And I was woken up at about 5 o’clock in the morning to the building swaying. And because, uh, earthquakes are like a dime a dozen in Japan, they, they’ve built a lot of their buildings to absorb the shock. So that’s why it was swaying, it was really, it was a very surreal feel.