Posted on 12/29/2015 5:49:39 PM PST by DAC21
The B.C. earthquake was at 11:39 p.m. PST. and appears to have been near Sidney B.C. and just to the west of the San Juan Islands of WA state, probably very close to the border which runs up the narrow strait between our two fine countries (if one excludes their governments of course).
Hurricane is obviously longer lived.
Have survived car one, tornadoes, and earthquakes.
Mother Nature can be angry
“How long have you been in Chino? I know the area well”
25 years, previously 20 years in Brea
Well, the ones I’ve felt have been far away from the epicenter that there wasn’t any damage to me or my belongings, but obviously close enough for me to feel them. That one in Napa back in April (I think it was April), for instance. It happened around 3AM, I want to say, and I thought it was just my dog just scratching herself while laying on my bed and I just went back to sleep. Didn’t realize it was an earthquake until the next day when everyone was talking about it.
Friends of mine tell me that Chino reminds them of how OC used to be, just a bit hotter. Good place to be as long as you don’t have to drive the 91 to get to work.
That's a good way to put it, FRiend! I've been through many earthquakes, including Northridge (which put the fear of God in me -- nanoseconds before it hit at like 4 in the morning, it woke me up out of a sound sleep, a sensation like about 3,000 freight trains headed straigt for me), a few tornadoes (inland in Florida during its hurricane season), and as a seafarer's daughter growing up on the coast, many huge ocean storms.
Mother Nature ALWAYS wins. A house built on an ocean bluff may win a few seasonal battles, but will ALWAYS lose the war against erosion! When you see a 300-foot-long pier that's been there for decades, reduced to gigantic floating matchsticks in just one big storm ... and when your dad's fishing boat comes in with double-windows in the cabin broken out from sheer force of waves and water, and sturdy masts and poles snapped like twigs ... well, it hits home that you have got it right about ol' Ma Nature!
On this old earth, we humans are like ants on the kitchen counter, that vulnerable and temporary.
Happily, the strength of the Almighty is paramount and He always (so far, anyway!) delivered my family home from the sea safe and sound.
But with earthquakes that are more humbling than all of the above ... well, they remind me that God can pull the rug out from EVERYTHING in the blink of His eye!
Rain, Flood, Drought, Fire, and Earthquake.
"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
{^)
True words
Earthquakes used to be considered an act of God.
Now the codes are written to design buildings so they can withstand earthquakes.
What could be more foolish than trying to design something to withstand an act of God?
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