The Cool, Grey City

On the anniversary of the quake that destroyed San Francisco, we remember the City it afflicted, and our last visit to a place we once called home.

Seattle, WA
July 21, 2018

(NB: See previous installments here, here, and here).

It has been said that if a cow lies down somewhere in California, a seismologist will know it. Such is the density and sensitivity of the more than 700 seismographs scattered across that quivering state.

At 5:13a on April 18, 1906, the cows did not so much lie down as fall flat……