Earthquake Lady
When I saw this chick click ….
I had this vision of some woman who predicted earthquakes when her left knee got sore or her cat started acting weird. You know, like your granny could always tell when it was going to rain because her elbow started acting up. It seems to me that’s what you think of when you see “Earthquake Lady” in quotation marks.
But no. Oh hell no.
Here’s the “Earthquake Lady” —
Dr. Lucy Jones is a renowned seismologist, who rarely depends on her cat to predict earthquakes. Unless, of course she’s in a real bind because her husband’s boss is coming to dinner and she has to whip up a damn turkey or something.
Isn’t this kinda like if you called Neil deGrasse Tyson the “Full Moon Fellow.”
Thanks to Bryan for the heads up.
Note my name. I taught laser science. Although my students just called me laser mom.
1‘Earthquake Lady Urges Preparedness’
by Paper Boy
Dateline July 9, 2019
Somewhere in California
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2Does this mean that male physicist’s are now atom men
3Or
Farmers/ ranchers are now manure people
or
Male Police are now gunmen
or
the list is endless. just another way to “diminish” those who do not conform to roles “assigned” to them.
I would put Tyson as planet killer. I miss Pluto.
4First heard of this accomplished woman a couple of weeks ago while dining with her accomplished brother! He recommended her book The Big One, How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us.
5We LOVE Dr. Lucy out here! Before Dr. Lucy, it was Dr. Kate Hutton, equally beloved by a majority of Californians. When she retired, we wondered if we’d ever love another, but Dr. Lucy sure filled the bill! I don’t doubt that kids may call her the earthquake lady, and others who may not be able to recall her name, but they all know her face, and after a good shaker, can’t wait for her to get in front of the cameras and ‘splain what happened, odds of something greater happening, which fault it was on (very important to those of us living on the San Andreas fault) and she does it all with humor, even after being asked the same damn question 57 ways. She’s now a professor, inspiring a new generation of science nerds who want to understand every little detail about why the earth shakes. Dis Dr. Lucy and you’ll get a fight, because even after she retired, people kept calling the USGS asking “what does Dr. Lucy say?” She’s a seismic rockstar and explains things so calmly and simply, about all we can handle when the earth keeps moving under our feet.
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