Quote Originally Posted by mklotz View Post
My wife has the same obsession with heavy china so our kitchen cabinets are also hung on French cleats - done by the kitchen remodelers, not me. They too installed the "leveling shims".

LA is definitely earthquake country but in 60 years of living here, the only damage we've sustained is a broken water heater pipe during the Northridge quake. Compared to the damage from hurricanes , tornadoes and floods elsewhere in the country, a little shaking is very tolerable. Downtown LA is a. much different storyIn 1957 they removed the 150 ft height limit that effectively restricted buildings to 13 stories and now we have 107 buildings over 300 feet with the tallest reaching 1100 feet. The next "big one" may well provide a domino collapse of monstrous proportions.
an excerpt;
Desperadoes Under the Eaves Song by Warren Zevon ‧ 1976
"And if California slides into the ocean
Like the mystics and statistics say it will
I predict this motel will be standing
Until I pay my bill...."