Harold Camping’s January 2010 Solano Avenue, Berkeley, Billboard
My colleague snapped this picture on the way to work this morning. You will find it in Berkeley, on Solano Avenue, near the Oaks Theater.
I suppose if there were a place that needed saving, it would be Berkeley, but it also seems a place rather unlikely to take Camping’s pronouncements seriously.
The worry in all such EOTWAWKI (end of the world as we know it) predictions is that some poor souls DO take such predictions seriously, in the face of failure after failure. But people have been known to sell their homes, give away their belongings, even commit suicide — and even take the lives of their loved ones. Only to wake up the morning after believing that “there was a miscalculation”.