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RE: Exciting Japan ~ Original Haiku

in Blockchain Poets8 months ago

Hey @dbooster, I've often wondered how people living in countries prone to earthquakes how they get their minds round it and learn to live with it, because unless you move you're going to have to learn to live with the possibility of an earthquake happening.

I'm sure there is lots of monitoring by the Japanese government and I dare say there are warning systems in place but it still must be a scary thing to live with.

I do hope the big earthquake won't hit for many, many years if it has to happen at all. I'm pleased the one you experienced the other week was a mild one.

What a glorious picture to accompany what is a dark humorous haiku!

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I suppose it's the same in any area that is prone to natural disasters. I grew up in Indiana in the midwest of America. Indiana is right on the edge of tornado alley, which gets the most tornados of anywhere in the world. So I was always surrounded by potential disaster there too. You just learn to kind of ignore it. You prepare an emergency kit and know what to do if it does happen, but otherwise you try not to obsess about it and get on with your life. Looking at the odds, even in a place like here, the chances of it happening are fairly low, so no sense worrying too much. If it happens, it happens, but it probably won't so lets not think about it.