I vaguely remember an end-of-the-world type scare when I was a kid in the late sixties or very early 70s. California was supposed to be underwater. For a little kid, this fired the imagination, as I thought it would be like living in a fish aquarium, with the cute little underwater castle. Does anybody else remember the California under-water prediction?
we live next to a navy base/weapons depot (in Indiana, go figure) and spent half of my school year cowering under a desk, practicing for the nuke attack that would inevitably hit the base (8 miles away from the school). evidently the powers that be believed those desks would protect us from complete annihilation. as for CA, we were always hearing that the “big one” was gonna hit them and they would be broken off from the mainland and sink. wrongs all around, huh?
Syzygy!
All I remember is the earthquake prediction where California would just be it’s own island.