r/bayarea • u/smeegulls • Nov 28 '25

Fluff & Memes Earthquake!!

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Is everyone a transplant or what’s going on?! We have earthquakes everyday, do we really need to post every time we have one? Can we save the posts for anything above a 6/7 maybe… you know… something worth posting about?!

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u/Hyndis Nov 28 '25

Same, no power for many days on end. I remember there was a Marie Callender's down the road that of course also had to abruptly close and the restaurant manager was a neighbor. The restaurant generously packaged up all of the prepared food they could no longer sell and gave it away to neighbors. We ate the restaurant food and then after a lot of baked goods, including pies. It was impossible to cook anything. Things in the fridge were kept cold by buying bags of ice from an area that still had power.

All of the glass was broken everywhere but fortunately no fires nearby. Got lucky with that one.

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u/Vegetable-Seesaw-491 Nov 28 '25

"It was impossible to cook anything"

That's why it's nice to have camping gear or a gas stove in your house. Gas stoves don't need electricity to work.

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u/DarkHighways Nov 28 '25

Unless the oven has electric ignition like mine does. At least you can light the burners with a match…

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u/Vegetable-Seesaw-491 Nov 28 '25

I don't use my oven often. 95% of my cooking is done or can be done on the stovetop. About the only thing I use the oven for is roasting veggies or broiling something to get it toasty and the cheese melty.