"This one woman, she kept saying plant the whole thing with ivy, Virginia creeper ... Somebody else, they said tear it down before another quake did it for ’em. But there it was. In the cities, lot of people, no place to go. Cardboard towns in the park, if you were lucky, and they’d brought those drip-pipes down from Portland, put ’em around the buildings. Leaks enough water on the ground, you don’t want to lay there. That’s a mean town, Portland. Invented that there ..." He coughed. "But that one night, people just came . All kinds of stories, after, how it happened. Pissing down rain, too. Nobody’s idea of riot weather."