I mean, seriously. The power was out for what? 2-3 hours?
No shit. Not to mention, the 9/11 comparison ... on
9/12?
And for 7 flights of stairs. Yeesh. (And afaik I'm a lot more urban than Susan's childhood, and yet I've done 10 days without power. Fun? No. But hardly a 9/11-scale disaster either.)
eta: massive x-post, duh.
I have to walk down the stairs every single day. It's how I start my day. And then I'm up and down quite a few more times. My life is even worse than 9/11.
So next time a freight train goes by and shakes my apartment, can I call it a East Coast Northridge quake?
Next time we'll light the roof on fire and break his leg before he takes the stairs so he'll understand things a little better.
I think you are perfectly within your rights of hyperbole to do that.
LORI! that's all, I got nuthin else.
Not to mention, the 9/11 comparison ... on 9/12?
I remember on 9/12 of that year, we had to evacuate our building due to a bomb scare. Twelve flights of stairs and yeah, it was scary.
I still wouldn't even compare that to 9/11.
Dumb ass.
The comments on the LA Times article are making me laugh though.
MSBELLE!!
Went camping and climbing in Joshua Tree this past weekend. The weather broke just in time and we had awesome not furnace-like weather, and I was amazed to see that there are still a ton of wildflowers blooming. So cool.
Kristen, you are me. I was laughing and reading those too. Har!