Posted on 09/28/2004 10:19:29 AM PDT by Drago
Just felt a quake here in the Fresno area...
The most highly monitored place on earth. They should get some good information here.
Let's put things in perspective, people. This is not scary. John Kerry reporting for duty (wimpy salute) as President of the United States... Now THAT'S SCARY!!!
I have a theory about this... in an earthquake "everyone's" a victim. It plays out in CA DEM legislative bills, perpetually.
Bonnie, Charley, Frances, Ivan, Jeanne, Mt St. Helen's warming up, earthquakes in Cal...
...Waiting for the new MoveOn.org ad...
Plus/minus 14 kilometers? Yeah, "poorly constrained" fits.
"the word "younger" properly placed, might have been more introductory. However! I am a gender-neutral pajamaratti! :) I'm neither male nor female, but according to Lockheart or is it Klein, a boob."
Heh, heh....she said boob. See, I can be juvenile if I really try. In any case I'm very glad to hear that you're still female. The alternative isn't pretty.
Indeed. We at least know what we're dealng with in L.A. People in the Midwest, and in NYC, they've just not built in preparation for an earthquake. Sure it may be hundreds of years, but when it hits... ouch.
When the Big One hits, it will completely destroy areas of Cali- which may take decades to recover from.
*sigh* It just amazes me how people can live in areas where they get slammed with tornadoes and hurricanes that do the INCREDIBLE amounts of damage I'm seeing in footage, and these tornados/hurricanes don't come around once every 70 or 150 years -- they happen almost like clockwork on an annual basis!!
Granted, a really BIG earthquake (I would classify today's as a medium one -- I was in So Cal during the Northridge quake and that was a fairly big one) would be devastating, but I sincerely doubt it would be MORE devastating in terms of property damage than the hurricanes we've seen hit Florida in the past few weeks. Deaths, we're talking a totally different thing, and it would all depend on when it hit. If it hit during rush hour or business hours, bad. If it hit during the middle of the night, not NEARLY as many people would die. It's the aftermath I fear, as in rioting.
But one thing I learned from the Northridge quake, very much to my surprise, as a small-town rural newcomer to big-city So Cal: Southern Californians are incredibly resourceful and innovative, and there are a lot more NRA conservatives here than anyone thinks. Southern Californians, especially people in the San Fernando Valley, have to be the most underestimated and misunderstood people in the country. Many of them are very kind and neighborly -- I saw this time and again. The rest of you out there who buy in to the stereotype of California and its people are akin to people who only get their news from CNN because it validates their existing agenda: you're willfully ill informed, having too much fun feeling superior!
I got one on my minivan, but I wish they'd come up with something like that for the doorlocks...to keep them from freezing that is.
No, it was Feburary. It was so damn cold, just going outside was a pain in the butt.
Got home and it was 74 degrees. Yeowza!
We just look like a 6.0 Earquake just hit (Florida).
"We just look like a 6.0 Earquake just hit (Florida).
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Not really. The damage in Florida looks more like a 7.5 earthquake or more. You guys really took a beating. A 6.0 earthquake is no big deal, really.
Well, they DO have a lot of French influence up there. If the U.S. would enforce its southern border the way Mexico enforces it's southern border, we'd be a lot better off here.
Well, I am fortunate to not have been through tornados. Just the occasional blizzard. But there's no doubt in my mind that if and when the big one happens, Californians and Americans will pull together to take care of their own.
The fight to remain righteously female in CA is a hardy task for any female. CA, northern, is a land where women say no, and the sheep say "mmee-eee---eennnnn". :)
I forgot about the door locks freezing up sometimes. There were times when I had to heat my door key using matches, sticking the key in the lock, heat the match again, and repeat until I could unlock it. Maybe there was a efficient way to do thaw my locks, but I wasn't aware of one. But, it didn't happen often. I survived the ordeal!
Then perhaps the quake is really a ground swell for BUSH?
:)
"Damm look at all the activate on the lower and upper San Andres over the last week.. us in the middle look due.... "
Actually, except for the big boxes around Parkfield, that looks like every one-week map I've ever looked at. There is always minor earthquake activity on that map.
I was told people in Modesto don't feel the quakes because of the sand. I never thought that sand would bring down the buildings in a big Bay area quake. Aren't you too far away?
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