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The standard advice now taught in California schools is "Duck, cover, hold." Basically everything that parent poster said, but in a pithy 3-word aphorism you'r

The standard advice now taught in California schools is "Duck, cover, hold." Basically everything that parent poster said, but in a pithy 3-word aphorism you're more likely to remember.

dylan604 3y ago
Sure, but at some point, you have to be told what "duck, cover, hold" actually means. Your comment as the first comment someone hears is like a news article using acronyms throughout the article without ever expanding the acronym.
- throwup238 3y ago
  It’s the first thing we teach new arrivals to California along with “stop, drop, and toll” and what real Mexican food tastes like.
  - alexb_ 3y ago
    > “stop, drop, and toll” In California, even saving yourself from being on fire is taxed.
    - coolspot 3y ago
      Guys, calm down, it is actually an ok pun joke. “Toll”, get it?
      - alexb_ 3y ago
        I didn't think this would get hate rofl
        throwup238 3y ago
        I don’t know why you got downvoted. I liked the joke! I guess my fellow Californians can be a little touchy about taxes.
- nostrademons 3y ago
  It's relatively self-explanatory. The full expansion would be "Duck under a table or other rigid object. Cover your head. Hold on."
  - Etheryte 3y ago
    Yeah no, unless someone has previously told you what it means there's no way of guessing that, that's just wishful thinking.
    - brewdad 3y ago
      It really isn't for anyone whose native language is American English. Unless you plan to quack, while singing a Mariah Carey song, and waiting to speak to customer service rep instead.
    - cbsks 3y ago
      I bet you’ll remember it now though :)
  - rprospero 3y ago
    Even more self-explanatory is "Duck into the bathroom. Cover the toilet seat with toilet paper. Hold your bladder until you're on the toilet." I'm still not sure what I'm supposed to be holding onto. Do I briefly cover my head with my arms, then stop covering my head to hold onto the table? Do I hold onto my head while I cover it? Do I cover my loved one's head and they cover mine, sharing our last moments in a loving hold? Now I'm beginning to wonder if I made a massive assumption that I would be covering my head with my hands. That's what I would do during a tornado, but maybe I'm supposed to be covering my head with a blanket so my hands are free for the hold on part? Honestly, my facetious hold my bladder advice seems more apropos than anything I've managed to come up with for part three.
  - Aloisius 3y ago
    It's: DROP or DUCK down to your hands and knees Take COVER protecting your head/neck with an arm and crawl under a sturdy table/desk possible or to a nearby interior wall away from potential falling objects HOLD ON to your shelter if you have it or head/neck with both hands if you don't It's not as obvious as stop, drop and roll which is why drills are a thing in schools. It's also not terribly far from duck and cover drills for nukes or tornadoes as I understand it. The hold on bit was added to keep people from tripping and breaking a leg while running around while the ground is shaking.
- jjulius 3y ago
  What a strange comment - I strongly doubt that schools are teaching that phrase without simultaneously expanding on what the phrase means. Introduce the phrase, explain it at the deeper level, then move forward with using the phrase once the students have been taught its deeper meaning. Why flippantly assume that that's not being done? I grew up on the west coast and that's exactly how it was taught to us in public schools.
  - gorlilla 3y ago
    Midwest and we have a similar process for tornadoes.. and nuclear bombs.
whartung 3y ago
Another hot tip. The weak ones don’t prepare you for the strong ones. I’ve been rocking and rolling in So Cal for decades. I’ve felt most of the major quakes that have made the news. I’ve seen stuff fall from my walls, transformers short out and explode. Felt rollers, thumpers, shakers. We’ve had four of note at my house this year alone so far. One of them felt like it picked the house up and dropped it several inches. Each time, they were never severe enough to get me to dive for anything. It’s just like that dinner scene in LA Story, where they just grab their glasses and carry on. Then, you see videos of “real quakes”. Stuff out of movies. File cabinets sliding across the floor. Bookcases falling. Heavy things tossed like they weigh nothing, not to mention the larger damage. Having been through my series of quakes, I can see they’re nothing like a major one. But, right now, my gumption when one shows up is wait and see. Perhaps not the best habit. But when you’re in bed at night, and a small roller hits and it feels like you just dropped a quarter in the slot to turn your bed on, hard to get motivated to get up and out and duck and cover. Better just to roll over, say “it’s ok honey” to my wife, and go back to sleep.

The standard advice now taught in California schools is "Duck, cover, hold." Basically everything that parent poster said, but in a pithy 3-word aphorism you're more likely to remember.

dylan604 3y ago

Sure, but at some point, you have to be told what "duck, cover, hold" actually means. Your comment as the first comment someone hears is like a news article using acronyms throughout the article without ever expanding the acronym.

throwup238 3y ago
It’s the first thing we teach new arrivals to California along with “stop, drop, and toll” and what real Mexican food tastes like.
- alexb_ 3y ago
  > “stop, drop, and toll” In California, even saving yourself from being on fire is taxed.
  - coolspot 3y ago
    Guys, calm down, it is actually an ok pun joke. “Toll”, get it?
    - alexb_ 3y ago
      I didn't think this would get hate rofl
      - throwup238 3y ago
        I don’t know why you got downvoted. I liked the joke! I guess my fellow Californians can be a little touchy about taxes.
nostrademons 3y ago
It's relatively self-explanatory. The full expansion would be "Duck under a table or other rigid object. Cover your head. Hold on."
- Etheryte 3y ago
  Yeah no, unless someone has previously told you what it means there's no way of guessing that, that's just wishful thinking.
  - brewdad 3y ago
    It really isn't for anyone whose native language is American English. Unless you plan to quack, while singing a Mariah Carey song, and waiting to speak to customer service rep instead.
  - cbsks 3y ago
    I bet you’ll remember it now though :)
- rprospero 3y ago
  Even more self-explanatory is "Duck into the bathroom. Cover the toilet seat with toilet paper. Hold your bladder until you're on the toilet." I'm still not sure what I'm supposed to be holding onto. Do I briefly cover my head with my arms, then stop covering my head to hold onto the table? Do I hold onto my head while I cover it? Do I cover my loved one's head and they cover mine, sharing our last moments in a loving hold? Now I'm beginning to wonder if I made a massive assumption that I would be covering my head with my hands. That's what I would do during a tornado, but maybe I'm supposed to be covering my head with a blanket so my hands are free for the hold on part? Honestly, my facetious hold my bladder advice seems more apropos than anything I've managed to come up with for part three.
- Aloisius 3y ago
  It's: DROP or DUCK down to your hands and knees Take COVER protecting your head/neck with an arm and crawl under a sturdy table/desk possible or to a nearby interior wall away from potential falling objects HOLD ON to your shelter if you have it or head/neck with both hands if you don't It's not as obvious as stop, drop and roll which is why drills are a thing in schools. It's also not terribly far from duck and cover drills for nukes or tornadoes as I understand it. The hold on bit was added to keep people from tripping and breaking a leg while running around while the ground is shaking.
jjulius 3y ago
What a strange comment - I strongly doubt that schools are teaching that phrase without simultaneously expanding on what the phrase means. Introduce the phrase, explain it at the deeper level, then move forward with using the phrase once the students have been taught its deeper meaning. Why flippantly assume that that's not being done? I grew up on the west coast and that's exactly how it was taught to us in public schools.
- gorlilla 3y ago
  Midwest and we have a similar process for tornadoes.. and nuclear bombs.

whartung 3y ago

Another hot tip. The weak ones don’t prepare you for the strong ones. I’ve been rocking and rolling in So Cal for decades. I’ve felt most of the major quakes that have made the news. I’ve seen stuff fall from my walls, transformers short out and explode. Felt rollers, thumpers, shakers. We’ve had four of note at my house this year alone so far. One of them felt like it picked the house up and dropped it several inches. Each time, they were never severe enough to get me to dive for anything. It’s just like that dinner scene in LA Story, where they just grab their glasses and carry on. Then, you see videos of “real quakes”. Stuff out of movies. File cabinets sliding across the floor. Bookcases falling. Heavy things tossed like they weigh nothing, not to mention the larger damage. Having been through my series of quakes, I can see they’re nothing like a major one. But, right now, my gumption when one shows up is wait and see. Perhaps not the best habit. But when you’re in bed at night, and a small roller hits and it feels like you just dropped a quarter in the slot to turn your bed on, hard to get motivated to get up and out and duck and cover. Better just to roll over, say “it’s ok honey” to my wife, and go back to sleep.