Jack T Chance
Sr Member
So, yesterday, the East Coast of the United States experienced its first significant earthquake in, like, FOREVER (as judged by the length of time I've inhabited this planet, naturally! 
). The quake's epicenter was in Mineral, VA, so it was felt pretty strongly in my home state of Maryland. The Washington Monument was cracked, the National Cathedral sustained damage (just a couple or 3 years after its decades-long construction was finally completed! :rolleyes), an old, gothic church in Baltimore sustained heavy damage, at least one apartment building near D.C. sustained enough damage that it's been condemned... and then there's my neighborhood.
My bedroom, which is on the second floor of a townhouse and which also houses most of my memorabilia collection, was a mess. LOTS of stuff knocked over off of shelves. LUCKILY nothing seems to have been broken. Thankfully, only ONE of my prop replicas fell off of a shelf to the floor, and it is FINE. It's the electronic 4th Doctor Sonic Screwdriver I got from the RPF's RussRep, so that's a testament to the durability of his work right there!
But even still, I'm pretty spooked by the whole thing. One of the reasons I love living in Maryland, in fact pretty much the ONLY reason I love it these days, is that, as a general rule, we DON'T get the natural disasters that are so prevalent in the rest of the country! No earthquakes, no tornadoes of consequence, no hurricanes/tropical storms reach us with any real power left, no raging forest fires, no mudslides, no sandstorms... nothing. The occasional blizzard once every few decades is about the worst we have to deal with, generally speaking. So this was completely unexpected and most unwelcome. I've specifically REFUSED to move to the Left Coast specifically because I DON'T want my collection destroyed by Mother Nature's fury! :thumbsdown
So, now I'm thinking what I'm sure other RPFers East of the Mississippi must be thinking as well: How do I "Earthquake-Proof" my collection, to protect it against the next such occurrence?!? :confused
How do I display my props, figures, statues, die-cast vehicles, etc, so that an earthquake won't do any damage whatsoever? I figure the minds here at the RPF have had to figure this out, especially those that live near the Pacific Ocean! So, let's here your ideas! I'm going to be moving into a new place soon, and that'll be the perfect time to make some changes!
Thanks in advance for any advice.
). The quake's epicenter was in Mineral, VA, so it was felt pretty strongly in my home state of Maryland. The Washington Monument was cracked, the National Cathedral sustained damage (just a couple or 3 years after its decades-long construction was finally completed! :rolleyes), an old, gothic church in Baltimore sustained heavy damage, at least one apartment building near D.C. sustained enough damage that it's been condemned... and then there's my neighborhood.My bedroom, which is on the second floor of a townhouse and which also houses most of my memorabilia collection, was a mess. LOTS of stuff knocked over off of shelves. LUCKILY nothing seems to have been broken. Thankfully, only ONE of my prop replicas fell off of a shelf to the floor, and it is FINE. It's the electronic 4th Doctor Sonic Screwdriver I got from the RPF's RussRep, so that's a testament to the durability of his work right there!
But even still, I'm pretty spooked by the whole thing. One of the reasons I love living in Maryland, in fact pretty much the ONLY reason I love it these days, is that, as a general rule, we DON'T get the natural disasters that are so prevalent in the rest of the country! No earthquakes, no tornadoes of consequence, no hurricanes/tropical storms reach us with any real power left, no raging forest fires, no mudslides, no sandstorms... nothing. The occasional blizzard once every few decades is about the worst we have to deal with, generally speaking. So this was completely unexpected and most unwelcome. I've specifically REFUSED to move to the Left Coast specifically because I DON'T want my collection destroyed by Mother Nature's fury! :thumbsdown
So, now I'm thinking what I'm sure other RPFers East of the Mississippi must be thinking as well: How do I "Earthquake-Proof" my collection, to protect it against the next such occurrence?!? :confused
How do I display my props, figures, statues, die-cast vehicles, etc, so that an earthquake won't do any damage whatsoever? I figure the minds here at the RPF have had to figure this out, especially those that live near the Pacific Ocean! So, let's here your ideas! I'm going to be moving into a new place soon, and that'll be the perfect time to make some changes!
Thanks in advance for any advice.
