Hooooooooooly cow! Eureka was just hit by a 6.5 earthquake. The epicenter was 25 miles away, near Ferndale, but a seismologist explained that the shock waves were aimed right at our house. We’re totally fine, but we’ll have lots of heartbreaking posts with pictures of smashed stuff….a good lesson in attachment to things. We were just talking about how we needed to get some earthquake adhesive.
Our favorite antique store proprietress was just interviewed by the New York Times, and she said that next week would bring an awesome sale of damaged porcelain for the mosaic artists. We have plenty of smashed porcelain of our own, though. Any Readymade readers who need materials for mosaics should head on up to Eureka!
It is so painful to see these photos, but it is good for people to see the reality of an earthquake on a personal scale.