Elvis Blog – Post #73 – The 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake – Part 3

ELVIS QUOTE:
“Sometimes every knock can be a boost. When everybody agrees on something and someone says, ‘I like that,’ they start talking about something else. When there’s no controversy, there’s no news. When they quit talking about you, you’re dead.”

ELVIS TRIVIA:
What famous evangelist said, “I wouldn’t let my daughter walk across the street to see Elvis Presley perform?”

ELVIS HISTORY:
June 1955
The colonel had promised to make Elvis’s dreams come true. Later Elvis said, “When I was a boy, I was the hero in comic books and movies. I grew up believing in a dream. Now I’ve lived it out. That’s all a man can ask for.”

REMEMBERING Tuesday 17 1989:
The Loma Prieta Earthquake Part 3
The TV reporters mainly showed the damaged buildings down on the San Francisco Marina. That was the worst part of the devastation. Elsewhere in the city, it looked like any other day. The reason the Marina was so hard hit was, apartment buildings were built on top of open garages—essentially just walls with empty spaces to park cars. And those were built on top of debris from the 1906 Earthquake and Fire. The word FIRE is important because businesses were insured for fires, but not earthquakes. Anyways, major damage from an earthquake is from unstable earth below a building, and/or something falling from above. The idea of the earth opening up and swallowing people is the stuff of movies. When the earth opens up, it is usually from a sinkhole, and a lot of those are caused by fracking. An odd thing happens when there’s a quake. Animals act really strange. They know before humans do that a quake is imminent. And, it gets so quiet—birds don’t sing. The animal kingdom seems to listen. Another thing that happened immediately after the quake was that phones didn’t get a dial tone. This was before everybody had a cell phone. When people didn’t hear a dial tone, they assumed the phone was dead.

JOKE OF THE DAY:
Little military guy in a bar drinking, minding his own business. A big dude comes in and–WHACK!—knocks him off the bar stool and onto the floor. “That was a karate chop from Korea.” Later, WHACK!—the big dude knocks him down AGAIN and says, “That was a judo chop from Japan.” Little guy gets up, brushes himself off and leaves. He’s gone an hour, then without saying a word, he walks up behind the big dude and–WHAM!!!”—knocks the big dude off his stool! The little guy says to the bartender, “When he wakes up, tell him that’s a crowbar from Sears.

RECIPE OF THE DAY:
Tex-Mex Lasagna:
You’ll need zucchinis & oven ready lasagna noodles
Preheat oven to 400
Spray 2 qt pan
In skillet heat 2 tsp oil add small chopped onion
Cook 2 min
Stir in 2 thinly sliced zucchini, 16 oz salsa, 1 C thawed corn & 1 T chili powder
Cook 3 min stirring occasionally
Remove from heat
Spread ½ of 4 oz tomato sauce, then layer 2 noodles, ½ can of refried beans & 4 oz shredded cheese , repeat. Cover tightly w/ foil
Bake 30 min
Remove foil
Bake 20 min
Remove from oven
Let stand 5 min
Top w/ cilantro
355 cal per 1/6th of lasagna. 15g fat , 18g protein, 41g carbs, 960mg sodium using no salt added chili powder

TRIVIA ANSWER:
Billy Graham, who later spoke at Elvis’s funeral