I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille.....
Posted on 09/28/2004 10:19:29 AM PDT by Drago
Just felt a quake here in the Fresno area...
Was that after Northridge?
"but whats building in the middle?"
Probably nothing. These quakes in Parkfield may have just relieved the stress for that section of the San Andreas. Hard to say, really. Look at the map next Tuesday. The Parkfield quakes will be off the map then. See if it doesn't look about the same as the rest of the state. Lots of little quakes nobody feels. Another week in paradise.
I know we had a large one in the late 70's but I was a small child at the time and don't remember.
The biggest I remember going through were Whittier Narrows (epicenter = FIVE MILES from my HOUSE), Landers, and of course Northridge.
That was the last good, big one. We are long overdue for some serious shaking.
Yes. After Northridge. I was down there for that one.
Despair.com has a bunch of hilarious and very appropriate ones for both the home and office.
Well, I was close. :-)
In all seriousness, there's a problem there too. The border between the U.S. and Mexico is about 1500 miles long. The border between the U.S. and Canada is 4000 miles long. The Canadian government is fairly generous in granting legal entry to Canada...
I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille.....
We had one, around a 3.0, some years ago in West MI. I remember that some sidewalks buckled. Since there are so many holes in our roads anyway, no one noticed any damage to the highways.
Let's face it.
No one feels anything in Van Nuys.
REAL Freepers are in their "jammies"....
"Since there are so many holes in our roads anyway, no one noticed any damage to the highways.
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Well, there's one good thing about winter. All the potholes are full of ice, and construction season is over, eh?
Oh, sure.
Bring Reagan into it, so I can't have a comeback.
We didn't get much info, seems to be somewhat hush-hush, but it was interesting. Couldn't wait to get back to civilization, though, so turned back toward Paso. That road to Coalinga is desolate, but Harris Ranch would make it worth it!
Hooray! Kudos! GREAT home page!! And thanks for the reinforcement! When I moved to So Cal from a small-town rural environment, I had so many unfounded assumptions about big cities, big city people, and big city ways. It has been so refreshing to learn how misguided I was in my assumptions. In the heart of every city and suburb, is a small town. God bless them all! I love LA.
Oh, I know. It'd be nice if we had an Administration that would make serious, non-politically influenced border security a top national security concern.
But we don't have that now, and no matter what happens in November, we won't come January either.
Al Qaeda whackjobs like Mohammed Abdullah Jafar al-Jihadi Hassan are walking into the U.S. via Mexico with a matricula consular that says his name is "Jose Rodriguez". And they are not stopped. And hell, Mohammed doesn't even need the matricula consular up at Canada.
If California breaks off into the ocean this week, do their electoral votes still count?
It's the ice pot holes that are the worst. Snow covered roads that turn to ice, and large holes form from melting... talk about something that will shake the snow off your car! Yikes! Worst of all, its hard to see them.
And if anything, CA is actually emerging from the ocean. Most areas are experiencing uplift with the exceptions of some of the structural basins. And in those, the sedimentation rate is so high that they will never sink below sea level. The only exceptions are the Salton Basin and Death Valley, but for reasons I will not expound on here those two are not considered part of California tectonically speaking but are part of respectively Mexico and Nevada. Keeping harbors functional is a serious issue as the bottom gets relatively shallower in most locations.
I didn't get the fax (yet) from a Texas Kinko's on today's quake. :-)
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