Earthquakes
21 messages in this thread
<< Earthquakes aren't really that bad…>>
Then you keep them.
Kb
Kevin,
Earthquakes are pretty terrible, if you're near the epicenter. Then
lots of things fall down on you. Also, you can be wiped out by an
earthquake if you don't have insurance on your home–and many Californians
don't. Mainly, when there is a big one, like the Loma Prieta (World
Series) quake at 8.1 or so, you're glad you're alive, and you get out of
buildings that are damaged. Then you hope that there won't be another one
like it in your lifetime.
Surely you have some kind of natural disasters in Alberta? Tornadoes?
Hurricanes? Volcanoes? Guess I'd better do some research with my new
multimedia Microsoft Bookshelf.
Lynne
The only natural disasters in Alberta would be Tornadoes. They usually
touch down in unoccupied land and are small and weak. We did have a major
one hit Edmonton a few years back. That was the weekend a friend and I
were on a canoe trip heading towards Edmonton. Never saw nothing of the
tornado but had steady rain all weekend and one mean breeze coming up the
river valley.
Kb
It is a proven, evidentiary scientific fact that tornadoes are
attracted to mobile homes and mobile home parks. Just look at the news any
tornado season….
I can't argue with you on that point. That tornado that went through
Edmonton the first thing it hit was Evergreen Mobile Park. Completely
destroyed it, whenever clouds gather in the sky the people still get
nervous.
Kb
>>It is a proven, evidentiary scientific fact that tornadoes are attracted
to mobile homes and mobile home parks. Just look at the news any tornado
season….<<
Jack:
It is the same function of nature that causes UFO occupants to only
reveal themselves to country bumpkins.
-Ed
And Whitley Schreiber, who can make millions off it.
>>It is a proven, evidentiary scientific fact that tornadoes are attracted
to mobile homes and mobile home parks. Just look at the news any tornado
season….<<
Jack:
It is the same function of nature that causes UFO occupants to only
reveal themselves to country bumpkins.
-Ed
Ed I noticed you have a real stutter.<g> I seem to get two copies of each
of your messages. Not that I mind being you're such a interesting fella to
listen to.<g>
Kb
Kevin,
>> two copies of Ed's messages
You're not the only one<g>. Interestingly, it's probably a CI$ problem as
both copies have the _same_ message number, or at least the couple I
checked did.
Adrian
I have noticed the problem in a few other forums also. I think it might be
a CI$ problem also.
Kb
For the record, I'm not getting two copies of Ed's messages, so it might
be some interaction you and Kevin share.
Jack,
That could be interesting<g>. I'm in Germany and I think Kevin is in the
US.
Adrian
Kevin:
Ppppplease ddddisregard ppppprevious mmmmmm….,mmmmmmm
mmmmessages.
-Ed
Kevin,
Correction to that last message: the Loma Prieta earthquake was 7.1 or
so, not 8.1. The great, famous San Francisco Earthquake that is extolled in
song and fable is estimated at 8.1 to 8.4.
BTW, don't they have earthquakes in the Philippines? You're not going
to be there long, but "break a leg."
Lynne
Lynne,
They may not have earthquakes but they do have volcanoes.
Paul
Yea and I saw the aftermath. Very messy.
Kb
Paul:
Volcanoes and earthquakes, everybody on the Pacific Rim has 'em.
That's why it's known as the Ring of Fire (some have it Rim of Fire).
-Ed
Yes they do have earthquakes in the Philippines. In fact as you no doubt
already know they just had one in Japan. I do believe they are on the same
fault line. I just got to hope one doesn't hit while I am there although
if I am at my wifes family house I should be okay.
I don't think it is the leg I am going to break. By the time the relatives
up here were finished giving me gifts to take back with me I have room for
a couple of pair of pants in my suitcase. It's a good thing I only plan to
wear jeans and tee shirts while I am there.
I'll probably check in here one more time today then I'm out of here and
I'll talk to you all when I get back.
Kb
But, Lynne, they didn't have a big earthquake in ought-six. I was in San
Francisco off and on for years, and they kept talking about the Great San
Francisco Fire, with an asterisk and below in .00008 micron type "and
earthquake."
I still remember going down CA 1 off Point Reyes and seeing a bridge
from the turn of the century. Its start and end are still standing; the
middle left in '06, but the remarkable fact is that the start of the bridge
on the HWY 1 side is about 1/4 mile down from the end on the Point side.
That was how much the earth shifted in those thirty seconds.
One reason I sit here on a massive hunk of granite….
Jack,
It's a great relief to know that we're safe from earthquakes around
the Labor Day weekend, when you're in for the S.F. Worldcon. (I sent for
the info a couple of days ago.) But I don't think you can take the credit
if we have a big one on the Hayward fault soon after you leave–it is
"due," because it usually goes off within a few years of major movement on
the San Andreas. Unfortunately, the California housing market is so rotten
that we can't sell our condo easily, and there's nowhere really safe,
anyway.
Because you're a historian, it might intrigue you to know that many of
the post-1906 earthquake photos were faked to minimize the earthquake
damage. This was uncovered by the long-time librarian assigned to the
History Room in the S.F. Public Library. She theorizes that it had
something to do with collecting on fire insurance, because flames were
added during the retouching process (if memory serves me). You are right
that it was the great fire that destroyed the City, and that made S.F. one
of the most fire-conscious cities anywhere. We pay our firemen very well!
And the fires started by "Loma Prieta" in the Marina district were put out
fairly quickly, with the aid of our two fireboats–one of which was
purchased only a year or two before the quake, as a result of a City ballot
measure. (I say "we," because I lived in S.F. for 13 years before moving
to the sort-of 'burbs.) And granite doesn't necessarily help–my townhouse
condo is on rock, and I thought I was going around in circles when Loma
Prieta hit. It was kind of surprising that the place wasn't halfway down
the hillock it sits on, once the quake ended.
Lynne