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> I have 4 levels above me, hiding under a table > wasn't going to do shit to save me [...] food > has fallen off all the shelves, The advice to hide
by avar 10y ago
> I have 4 levels above me, hiding under a table
> wasn't going to do shit to save me [...] food
> has fallen off all the shelves,
The advice to hide under tables isn't meant to save you from the entire building collapsing, but from injuries sustained from stuff falling off shelves & the non-structural parts of your roof collapsing.
- idlewords 10y ago"You're doing it wrong," only for earthquakes.
- enraged_camel 10y agoAlso, some tables, particularly heavy wooden and metal tables, can withstand lots and lots of weight. Hiding under them can help you avoid getting your skull bashed in by a falling slab of concrete.
- wiredfool 10y agoThe one biggish one I went through was in Seattle, where I was in a startup. We had cheap IKEA desks, which barely held the computers. I bolted for the door, which was the wrong thing to do in a brick clad building. Thankfully, we were on solid ground on Capitol Hill, not the fill in Pioneer Square, so I didn't get hit by falling cornice.