Seen in Print

[Roy]

Why don't we do it in the road?
Why don't we do it in the road?
Why don't we do it in the road?
Why don't we do it in the road?
No one will be watching us
Why don't we do it in the road?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Why don't we do it in the road?
Why don't we do it in the road?
Why don't we do it in the road?
Why don't we do it in the road?
No one will be watching us
Why don't we do it in the road?

Except now there will be 39 recordings made by people with smart phones posting the videos on the internet 30 seconds later.....

[robert.]

Why don't we do it in the road?
Why don't we do it in the road?
Why don't we do it in the road?
Why don't we do it in the road?
No one will be watching us
Why don't we do it in the road?

Except now there will be 39 recordings made by people with smart phones posting the videos on the internet 30 seconds later.....

It takes less then 30 seconds to film and post. Remember about four years ago a September earthquake? It ran through Richmond, Baltimore NYC and north. Photos of Richmond trembling made it to facebook before tremors made it to NYC.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Why don't we do it in the road?
Why don't we do it in the road?
Why don't we do it in the road?
Why don't we do it in the road?
No one will be watching us
Why don't we do it in the road?

Except now there will be 39 recordings made by people with smart phones posting the videos on the internet 30 seconds later.....

It takes less then 30 seconds to film and post. Remember about four years ago a September earthquake? It ran through Richmond, Baltimore NYC and north. Photos of Richmond trembling made it to facebook before tremors made it to NYC.

Yes. I was building in a bit of time for a some fumble fingers and thumbs.

That earthquake was 6 years ago in August....I was in a conference room 2.5 floors underground just North of DC......we were only preceded up and out by the rats departing the building.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

[quote="Rufus T. Firefly"]...

That earthquake was 6 years ago in August....I was in a conference room 2.5 floors underground just North of DC......we were only preceded up and out by the rats departing the building.[/quote]

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Wow. I'd love to hear more of that story.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

...

That earthquake was 6 years ago in August....I was in a conference room 2.5 floors underground just North of DC......we were only preceded up and out by the rats departing the building.[/quote]

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Wow. I'd love to hear more of that story.

Group meeting and we heard rumbling and all which is not unusual since the stockroom/store is directly above, but this just kept coming, getting louder, and things were shaking.............

Earthquake??!!??? Ok, everybody out of the building! Up 2.5 flights of stairs and outside....

We have an emergency evac plan for the entire campus, but apparently an earthquake was never considered possible. It was well over 30 min before anyone made nay announcement of what to do, etc, and longer still for the police or fire department to show up. I went back in, shut everything off, packed my stuff up, after telling my folks to go home, departed. They eventually cleared the building for inspections, etc. -- biggest brick building in the world and they had that done the next morning.......right. What amazed me was that nothing was apparently damaged and that the plumbing survived - 50+ year old black iron plumbing is brittle...

Got home and nothing much askew, but stuff was off the shelves in my workshop,

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I wonder where the fault is.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I wonder where the fault is.

I've always wanted to blame Congress,

[webenda]

I wonder where the fault is.

Are you being the "Straight Man" again Murph? If so, the answer is, "Look in the mirror."

Otherwise, the epicenter of the 2001 Virginia earthquake was in Louisa County, Virginia, where damage was greatest and several minor injuries occurred. The town of Mineral, located 5 mi (8 km) north-northeast from the earthquake's epicenter, reported the collapse of two buildings, as well as minor damage to several other structures, including the collapse of the ceiling in its Town Hall.

People living in the East seem to be more sensitive to earthquakes than those in the west.



Shortly after my wife and I were married we visited cousin Walter in San Diego. My wife woke me up at 4 AM. She wanted to know if I was having convulsions (the bed was shaking.) I looked around, saw the ceiling lamp and curtains swaying, and told her, "It is just an earthquake, go back to sleep."

I grew up in the Los Angeles area of California. I lived there for 29 years. Los Angeles has had three earthquakes in the last three hours. Nobody noticed.

Reference: http://earthquaketrack.com/p/united-states/recent

My wife grew up in Tucson, Arizona. That was her first earthquake experience. She did not go back to sleep. After going outside she came back to tell me, "Everyone is evacuating the building, shouldn't we leave also?" "No," I said, "the earthquake is over, it is safer inside. These buildings in San Diego have survived far bigger earthquakes and are still in use. Besides, when buildings do collapse, it is usually the walls that fall on people outside. Interior rooms are usually safe.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

People living in the East seem to be more sensitive to earthquakes than those in the west.

People out West ---> Familiarity breeds contempt

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

I was at Davis Hobby Supplies here in Portsmouth buying the DCS set when it hit...that purchase must have set off the earthquake

We were literally swaying and so was all the stuff on the walls. A Minute or so later the store phone rang and it was my wife telling me to get my arse home

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I wonder where the fault is.

Are you being the "Straight Man" again Murph? If so, the answer is, "Look in the mirror." ...

Oh, very funny. Everybody's a comedian! Even nice men in good lookin' Stetson-type (or actual) hats!

And the answer is, Yup. Rufus often has his jocular-way with me.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I wonder where the fault is.

Are you being the "Straight Man" again Murph? If so, the answer is, "Look in the mirror." ...

Oh, very funny. Everybody's a comedian! Even nice men in good lookin' Stetson-type (or actual) hats!

And the answer is, Yup. Rufus often has his jocular-way with me.

It's that underhanded pitching..........and this enormous schwanzstuc.....err, reservoir of material that I have available,

[webenda]

Are you being the "Straight Man" again Murph? If so, the answer is, "Look in the mirror." ...

Oh, very funny. Everybody's a comedian! Even nice men in good lookin' Stetson-type (or actual) hats!

And the answer is, Yup. Rufus often has his jocular-way with me.

It's that underhanded pitching..........and this enormous schwanzstuc.....err, reservoir of material that I have available,

You do have an enormous reservoir of material. I had totally forgotten about the sssschwanzssshtucker.
:=> https://youtu.be/QuHw5ivCs1A

[Roy]

My wife grew up in Tucson, Arizona. That was her first earthquake experience. She did not go back to sleep. After going outside she came back to tell me, "Everyone is evacuating the building, shouldn't we leave also?" "No," I said, "the earthquake is over, it is safer inside. These buildings in San Diego have survived far bigger earthquakes and are still in use. Besides, when buildings do collapse, it is usually the walls that fall on people outside. Interior rooms are usually safe.

Depends on the building. Older, un-reinforced masonry(brick) buildings sometimes lose the connection with their floors, and they'll pancake down on each other. As you can imagine, many are killed in such cases.

What they do out here is effect a fix known as earthquaking. They run steel cables through the floors, and attach them to plates outside the walls. It won't stop a big enough quake totaling the building, but at least the floors don't collapse.