The earthquake was Mother Nature's kind warning that California is not yet prepared for the Big One. In many ways the terror of the aftershocks is worse than that of the original quake.
Sleep comes lightly, if at all.
You don't like being inside, and you bolt for the door at each new tremor. Eventually, the fear subsides, but it is never completely gone once you have experienced a Big One firsthand. If Angelenos have any sense at all, they will leave their freeways unrepaired, so that in their ideal climate, they can build a livable, human-oriented city suited to walking, cycling and mass transit. KSand Los Angeles is a city of people with an incredible reserve of strength. In the days following the earthquake, Angelenos reached out to one other with kindness and mercy.