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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: sweetcell on August 23, 2011, 01:56:38 pm
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anyone else feel it? whole house shook here in R'ville.
not that i've had a lot of experience with quakes, but i believe that was the strongest i've ever felt.
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Felt something here in Richmond.
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we had about 20 seconds on pretty solid shaking over here. at first i thought the washing machine was spinning off kilter... then i remembered it's not strong enough to make windows rattle.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Maps/US10/32.42.-85.-75.php
looks like it was over 5.0.
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We were rocking here in Ocean City at about 1:50PM.
Unlike other small quakes I've experienced, heard nothing but we were sure rocking back and forth a little bit. First thought that I was going nuts or had some weird middle ear problem until I saw a dresser mirror sway back and forth. Went outside and all sorts of others felt it too.
Just heard that the Capitol was evacuated.
Heard earlier this morning that there was one some place out West, New Mexico or somewhere in that area. Felt in several different SW states. Must be a big one to reach all across the country.
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Apparent earthquake rocks Washington D.C. area (http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/08/apparent-earthquake-rocks-washington-dc-area/1)
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OMG!!!!!!!!!!!
repeat OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
i have never felt or gone through something like this, and i had lived in virginia over 30 years. my whole house shook for like 30 seconds. now i am worried about possible structural damage. OMG!!!! is this real.
i'm off to read the bible now.
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Welcome to the club!
Having visited the University of Virginia (and Charlotesville), I've got a bad feeling about any 5.9 earthquake within 10 miles of that place. When I visited, I thought the bricks were lovely, but also remember saying "this would never work in CA...."
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almost a 6.0!
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0005ild.html
Welcome to the club!
i was expecting a californian to pipe up... :D
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word is it was all over the eastern coast. crazy.
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Welcome to the club!
Having visited the University of Virginia (and Charlotesville), I've got a bad feeling about any 5.9 earthquake within 10 miles of that place. When I visited, I thought the bricks were lovely, but also remember saying "this would never work in CA...."
and richmond too. i bet there was some damage there.
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i live less than 30 miles form the epicenter. house shook like a bitch for 30-45 seconds. everyone is ok and so far we have found no damage. sounded like a damn freight train was about to come through the front door.
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Check this out. (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/quakes_all.php) Whatever is happening, seems to have some connection with Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Alaska and even the British Virgin Islands. Of course, the BVI may be more related to the hurricane but not sure if those things are ever really connected. Kind of wish that I could see some 3-D model of the inside of the Earth to see how and if these movements are all connected.
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Check this out. (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/quakes_all.php)
You clearly know nothing about plate tectonics.
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Check this out. (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/quakes_all.php)
You clearly know nothing about plate tectonics.
is that like technotronic? those plates . . . just pumped up the jam.
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Check this out. (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/quakes_all.php)
You clearly know nothing about plate tectonics.
I didn't say that I did and I qualified my post by stating that it 'seems'. I bet you don't have any absolutes about what's happening either.
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I didn't say that I did and I qualified my post by stating that it 'seems'. I bet you don't have any absolutes about what's happening either.
Alaska, Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico have hundreds (thousands in the case of AK) of tiny earthquakes each month. Their fault lines are completely different than the fault line that slipped in Virginia. The Central Virginia seismic zone along the James River has been considered dangerous for years, but activity on the San Andreas or any of the Rocky Mountain Faults lines would have absolutely nothing to do with that zone.
If anything, if they were related, releasing pressure on one fault would lessen the pressure on a related zone, not cause more. Would you like me to keep going?
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Would you like me to keep going?
Sure. Why not? I'm enjoying this. I knew most of that but not much else and am aware of it. Just don't keep up on those things in all that much detail. Certainly don't know all of the fault lines and am very aware of that. Apparently, there's some sort of major inactive volcano in Colorado that could come into play. Don't know if that's involved with that or not.
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According to this website it was in a known 'Seismic Zone'
http://www.virginiaplaces.org/geology/quake.html
"The last "big one" in Virginia (about a 5.8 on the Richter scale) was on May 31, 1897, in Pearisburg, the county seat of Giles County."
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And now we are a barren wasteland having to dig out of the wreckage. (Cue: sad Platoon music)
(http://famousdc.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/FamousDC-Earthquake-Devastation.jpg)
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Sure. Why not? I'm enjoying this.
Here's your animated model from billions of years ago:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/TectonicReconstructionGlobal2.gif)
Turns out those plates are still moving....
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I didn't say that I did and I qualified my post by stating that it 'seems'. I bet you don't have any absolutes about what's happening either.
Alaska, Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico have hundreds (thousands in the case of AK) of tiny earthquakes each month. Their fault lines are completely different than the fault line that slipped in Virginia. The Central Virginia seismic zone along the James River has been considered dangerous for years, but activity on the San Andreas or any of the Rocky Mountain Faults lines would have absolutely nothing to do with that zone.
If anything, if they were related, releasing pressure on one fault would lessen the pressure on a related zone, not cause more. Would you like me to keep going?
Hmm, yup.
I work in Columbia, MD and it rattled us pretty good. Additionally, I work with a bunch of geologists and everyone got excited, half ran outside to watch stuff shake, the other half ran for instruments.
I've been trying to check in with family in Richmond and phones are out all over the area, so needless to say it caused some damage of some kind.
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I've been trying to check in with family in Richmond and phones are out all over the area, so needless to say it caused some damage of some kind.
Or is it just a data traffic jam?
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Maybe your family decided this was a good time to ditch you once and for all?
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Apparently, there's some sort of major inactive volcano in Colorado that could come into play.
Yes, most volcanoes are signs of where the asthenosphere (inner layer of the crust) has made it's way past the lithosphere (outer layer). That usually occurs in cracks in the crust which is essentially what an earthquake is: one piece of the crust striking or moving against another piece of the crust.
However, a volcano 2,000 miles away erupting with lava and causing earthquakes will generally have no bearing on crust that far apart.
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Apparently, there's some sort of major inactive volcano in Colorado that could come into play.
Yes, most volcanoes are signs of where the asthenosphere (inner layer of the crust) has made it's way past the lithosphere (outer layer). That usually occurs in cracks in the crust which is essentially what an earthquake is: one piece of the crust striking or moving against another piece of the crust.
However, a volcano 2,000 miles away erupting with lava and causing earthquakes will generally have no bearing on crust that far apart.
you know everything about cellphones . . . and earthquakes? uhmm, who are you? ???
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you know everything about cellphones . . . and earthquakes? uhmm, who are you? ???
I was 3 units away from having a geology minor (emphasis on seismology) in college. I was then and still am fascinated by the science.
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smart people . . . are always the best in bed.
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Apparently, there's some sort of major inactive volcano in Colorado that could come into play.
Yes, most volcanoes are signs of where the asthenosphere (inner layer of the crust) has made it's way past the lithosphere (outer layer). That usually occurs in cracks in the crust which is essentially what an earthquake is: one piece of the crust striking or moving against another piece of the crust.
However, a volcano 2,000 miles away erupting with lava and causing earthquakes will generally have no bearing on crust that far apart.
you know everything about cellphones . . . and earthquakes? uhmm, who are you? ???
The Answer Man.
(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQSaYKEiwDtw5KEx1GopTMIFByT1lBIEUUuWcJ1Z0WJ7R1K3h0bug)
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Sure. Why not? I'm enjoying this.
Here's your animated model from billions of years ago:
billions of years? how many biblical days is that???
colorado had a 5.3 or so earthquake the other day. the "super-volcano" in the mountain west is a caldera is that makes up most of yellowstone....the lovely geysers there are steams from the built up pressure under the earth. the molten earth underneath yellowstone is caused from the subduction zone along the washington state coast where the pacific plate and the juan de fuca plate are driven under the north american plate- the melted crust turns to liquid hot magma. that's also why the peaks in the cascades are either extinct or dormant volcanoes (e.g., lassen, shasta, hood, st. helens, and rainier, to name a few).
for the trivia and history buffs- the largest series of earthquakes in north america occurred in missouri in 1811-1812 along the mississippi river in new madrid, mo.
once upon a time i wanted to be a seismologist.....but there was math involved.
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LOL @ the evacuations
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billions of years? how many biblical days is that???
2, which is the same time that it took Noah to get the kangaroos on the Ark....
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I didn't know what was going on.. took me a while to realize it might be a quake...out here we never get them...
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Oh yeah, and be prepared for aftershocks for the next 24-48 hours. They're usually just as much fun as the first one because (a) you're expecting them and (b) they're rarely as big.
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smart people . . . are always the best in bed.
Disagree.
Who would you rather bang, Stephen Hawking or Ronny from Jersey Shore?
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smart people . . . are always the best in bed.
Disagree.
Who would you rather bang, Stephen Hawking or Ronny from Jersey Shore?
i'd be up for discussions of particle accerleration theories through worm holes between rim jobs . . . over hearing ronny talk about how much he can bench or who he wants to beat up, any day.
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Maybe your family decided this was a good time to ditch you once and for all?
Ha, I doubt it. Not because they wouldn't ditch me, but because they're too lazy to go through this much effort to ditch me.
I'll go with Jags theory about the phones being jammed up from everyone calling everyone else freaking out.
Washington Post is reporting that the National Cathedral was damaged and a few other buildings around town.
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just read that somebody claimed the washington monument was seen tilting . . . wow, if true!
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Who would you rather bang, Stephen Hawking or Ronny from Jersey Shore?
i dunno - ronnie will give you all sorts of whining about "not being into this" and "i don't do that", "nice boys don't <insert sex act here>". but with hawking... BOOYAH.
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just read that somebody claimed the washington monument was seen tilting . . . wow, if true!
Would be even funnier if it was at night and its evil red eyes were blinking. :o ;D
Could make for a fun War Of The Worlds scenario just sitting back and watching the tourists reactions.
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I actually didn't feel a thing. Although, things usually shake when I walk around so I'm used to it by now.
Check this out. (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/quakes_all.php)
You clearly know nothing about plate tectonics.
What is it about this message board that turns people into pompous a-holes who think they know everything and feel compelled to educate others when really their life experiences are very limited? Where's that Julian fellow?
"You CLEARLY can't COMPREHEND the influence that the Pixies had on alternative music!"
Brian
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So we can now deduce that Brian Walalce is a big fat tub o'goo
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Brian Wallace is a mover and a shaker! ;)
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Fear. They shake from FEAR!
(http://www.motifake.com/image/demotivational-poster/small/0909/pure-evil-life-time-human-nature-god-devil-fear-keyser-soze-demotivational-poster-1253730339.jpg)
Brian
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What is it about this message board that turns people into pompous a-holes who think they know everything and feel compelled to educate others when really their life experiences are very limited?
You clearly need to meet me in person to see that it's not this board that makes me an ass hole.
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i bet you are a very nice person in real life. just like me. just like brian.
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various youtube postings on the quake
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=virginia+earthquake+2011&aq=1z&oq=virgi
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it was caused by all that east coast fracking.
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felt it in nyc. everyone has been freaking out on the 26th floor. unfortunately for me, i was in the elevator - but i honestly figured someone was huge in the elevator for it to shake this much. it sometimes shakes a bit, but this was pretty bad. thankfully it didnt get stuck.
other than that - got an extra hour out of lunch since everyone was freaking out. figured might as well stay outside for a bit more.
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felt it in nyc. everyone has been freaking out on the 26th floor. unfortunately for me, i was in the elevator - but i honestly figured someone was huge in the elevator for it to shake this much. it sometimes shakes a bit, but this was pretty bad. thankfully it didnt get stuck.
other than that - got an extra hour out of lunch since everyone was freaking out. figured might as well stay outside for a bit more.
you need to stop shaking that mighty ass of yours so much to big freedia.
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OMG!!!!!!!!!!!
repeat OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
i have never felt or gone through something like this, and i had lived in virginia over 30 years. my whole house shook for like 30 seconds. now i am worried about possible structural damage. OMG!!!! is this real.
i'm off to read the bible now.
Now you're being totally ga......oh wait....never mind!!!!
;)
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this was from vienna
(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Slideshows/_production/gss-110823-ECquake/gss-110823-ECquake-damage.grid-8x2.jpg)
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(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g16/beetsnotbeats/mckeq.jpg)
4th floor, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland
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Yeah, i was in Cville working with the epicenter being 27 miles away. I thought at first is there a freaking train coming by but nope it was a earthquake. It was enthralling and exciting ;D
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dude!
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http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/stunning-photos-of-damage-caused-by-the-east-coast
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dude!
Sweet!
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http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/stunning-photos-of-damage-caused-by-the-east-coast
My two favorite tweets:
The people in DC are now acting like the people of California drive in the rain.
Standard & Poor's has downgraded quake to 4.1
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i thought the head of s&p stepped down. they still matter?
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There was just a 4.2 aftershock in Richmond I heard, you richmonders feel it?
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I thought that this one was pretty witty:
"Evidently the quake occurred on a little known fault line outside of DC called "Bush's Fault"."
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(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g16/beetsnotbeats/mckeq2.jpg)
More tectonic shenanigans at McKeldin Library. I'll probably be recruited to help clean up tomorrow :P
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"I wonder how many teabaggers have faulted the President for taking a vacation when an earthquake could hit D.C. at any moment."
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13 Best Tweets About the East Coast Earthquake
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/08/23/top-tweets-about-the-east-coast-earthquake/#ixzz1VuTNgd9H
(http://timenewsfeed.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/picture-83.png)
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i live in mineral. the epicenter was ~4 miles from here.
i've heard people comparing it to a train. i live about .5 miles from train tracks and i knew someone that lived a few yards away from a different set. there is not a comparison. trains don't knock shit off of things that weigh 100+ pounds. the whole house was shaking violently for a good 20+ seconds. that 4.2 aftershock felt like nothing compared to the original. my house is one of the least damaged on the street. almost everyone else had their chimneys collapse.. ours (three) just got damaged. not really sure of the total extent of the damage to the house. thankfully not a lot was broken in the house. main things we lost were a TV and one of the kitchen cabinets.
i'm not personally finding the jokes all that funny. maybe it wasn't much where those people are, but it sure sucked pretty hard here. people are terrible at being clever.
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i'm not personally finding the jokes all that funny. maybe it wasn't much where those people are, but it sure sucked pretty hard here. people are terrible at being clever.
people are also terrible at spotting cleverness when things get too personal.
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i live in mineral. the epicenter was ~4 miles from here.
i've heard people comparing it to a train. i live about .5 miles from train tracks and i knew someone that lived a few yards away from a different set. there is not a comparison. trains don't knock shit off of things that weigh 100+ pounds. the whole house was shaking violently for a good 20+ seconds. that 4.2 aftershock felt like nothing compared to the original. my house is one of the least damaged on the street. almost everyone else had their chimneys collapse.. ours (three) just got damaged. not really sure of the total extent of the damage to the house. thankfully not a lot was broken in the house. main things we lost were a TV and one of the kitchen cabinets.
i'm not personally finding the jokes all that funny. maybe it wasn't much where those people are, but it sure sucked pretty hard here. people are terrible at being clever.
Wait just a second there, pal. I want to clear something up....you have three chimney's?!
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I was wondering what it was like at the epicenter. 5.9 is relatively small but could still be terrifying if you were right over it.
By way the thing to do in an eq is to get under a desk or sturdy table, not rush out in the street.
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i live in mineral. the epicenter was ~4 miles from here.
i've heard people comparing it to a train. i live about .5 miles from train tracks and i knew someone that lived a few yards away from a different set. there is not a comparison. trains don't knock shit off of things that weigh 100+ pounds. the whole house was shaking violently for a good 20+ seconds. that 4.2 aftershock felt like nothing compared to the original. my house is one of the least damaged on the street. almost everyone else had their chimneys collapse.. ours (three) just got damaged. not really sure of the total extent of the damage to the house. thankfully not a lot was broken in the house. main things we lost were a TV and one of the kitchen cabinets.
i'm not personally finding the jokes all that funny. maybe it wasn't much where those people are, but it sure sucked pretty hard here. people are terrible at being clever.
Wait just a second there, pal. I want to clear something up....you have three chimney's?!
yes. it's an older house. at this point only one is actually functional (exhaust for the furnace). it's the same for most of the houses around here.
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Well, I want to apologize if I offended anyone, but I loved it ;D
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You sure this wasn't caused by a free-roaming, vaporous, full-torso apparition?
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g16/beetsnotbeats/mckeq2.jpg)
More tectonic shenanigans at McKeldin Library. I'll probably be recruited to help clean up tomorrow :P
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That's exactly what I was thinking but distance's post really made me look at my life and question the true human value of making jokes in these trying times of books falling from shelves and 30 seconds of rumbling noises.
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i can't wait until hurricane irene does millions of dollars in damage killing old ladies in their rest homes, flooding whole neighborhoods as new born babies drown in their own cribs. i want death, i want families left stranded, broken up forever. i want animals dying. i want people running down the street with their skin on fire. i want looting and killing over a fucking candy bar. i want every blood soaked minute of it covered by the news with nsfw videos and pictures showing young children cut in half. then lets make song lists about the disaster and have a laugh and yell at those people who "have thin skin." yeah . . . that's what cool people do, they laugh in the face of disaster . . . as long as it isn't happening to them.
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Hey, Walkie. You and the s/o care to stop over for a hurricane party?
(http://www.zukus.com/images/theend.bmp)
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i so heart relaxer (although he failed to note the devastation caused to lawn furniture).
in distance's defense, i admired his restraint. it would have been easy to come out all guns a-blazin', "HOW DARE ANY OF YOU LAUGH AT THIS?!?", etc. instead, he response was measured. well done. i suspect that i wouldn't have responded as generously.
that's what cool people do, they laugh in the face of disaster . . . as long as it isn't happening to them.
that's what ALL humans do, you half-wit. it's called a coping mechanism. it's either that or pills. personally, i'd rather laugh it off.
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i wrote all of that just waiting for your response . . . and you let me down. you of all people, know how to tell people off properly. you call that a tell off?
(http://iruntheinternet.com/lulzdump/images/unacceptable-cat-no-angry-lolcat-1282669018t.jpg)
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@Walkie - To whom was that addressed?
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who do you think
i'll give you a hint
(http://www.heavingdeadcats.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/funny-pictures-cat-has-noted-your-ridiculous-opinion.jpg)
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(http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/a92100e5-ee4e-4835-8612-e587752a8a55.gif)
;D
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hahahah. too bad i think you got us confused. I am *definitely* not in any of those videos.
felt it in nyc. everyone has been freaking out on the 26th floor. unfortunately for me, i was in the elevator - but i honestly figured someone was huge in the elevator for it to shake this much. it sometimes shakes a bit, but this was pretty bad. thankfully it didnt get stuck.
other than that - got an extra hour out of lunch since everyone was freaking out. figured might as well stay outside for a bit more.
you need to stop shaking that mighty ass of yours so much to big freedia.
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i live in mineral. the epicenter was ~4 miles from here.
i've heard people comparing it to a train. i live about .5 miles from train tracks and i knew someone that lived a few yards away from a different set. there is not a comparison. trains don't knock shit off of things that weigh 100+ pounds. the whole house was shaking violently for a good 20+ seconds. that 4.2 aftershock felt like nothing compared to the original. my house is one of the least damaged on the street. almost everyone else had their chimneys collapse.. ours (three) just got damaged. not really sure of the total extent of the damage to the house. thankfully not a lot was broken in the house. main things we lost were a TV and one of the kitchen cabinets.
i'm not personally finding the jokes all that funny. maybe it wasn't much where those people are, but it sure sucked pretty hard here. people are terrible at being clever.
Wait just a second there, pal. I want to clear something up....you have three chimney's?!
He does now!!!
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I thought that this one was pretty witty:
"Evidently the quake occurred on a little known fault line outside of DC called "Bush's Fault"."
POTY
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That's exactly what I was thinking but distance's post really made me look at my life and question the true human value of making jokes in these trying times of books falling from shelves and 30 seconds of rumbling noises.
making fun of people overreacting to things is one thing (i was surprised by how much coverage it was getting for nyc ??), but it did have a pretty big impact here. not even being personal, most of those tweets weren't even close to funny either.
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National Zoo Animals React to the Earthquake
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/SCBI/AnimalCare/News/earthquake.cfm
best quote:
According to keepers, the giant pandas did not appear to respond to the earthquake.
they don't respond to frikken PANDA PORN - did they really think a little earthquake was going to get them riled up?
not even being personal, most of those tweets weren't even close to funny either.
but for you it IS personal. based on your accounts, the earthquake was somewhere between really fuckin scary and life-threatening. there is no way you can step back and objectively evaluate the humor. your ability to judge what is and isn't funny for the 99.99% of the population which wasn't traumatized by the quake is nil.
and then there is the lil' fact that humor is very subjective, even when direct personal experience with the subject matter isn't a factor...
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best quote:
According to keepers, the giant pandas did not appear to respond to the earthquake.
they don't respond to frikken PANDA PORN - did they really think a little earthquake was going to get them riled up?
Aren't Panda's a bunch of c^nts!
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first kangaroos, now pandas... jim would be proud of your ability to shoe-horn him in to so many different conversations. well done!
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Im not sure which comedian wrote this, but it cracked me up:
Apparently now that Nick Ashford is dead, the earth is no longer solid as a rock. :)
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i wrote all of that just waiting for your response . . . and you let me down. you of all people, know how to tell people off properly. you call that a tell off?
i believe this was directed as me... and no, it wasn't a proper tell-off because i didn't want it to be one. i was being relatively serious and trying to be somewhat respectful (i was inspired by distance). take out the "half-wit" quip, which i should have, and nary a trace of snark be there to be found.
(http://hackedirl.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/129101448733694946.jpg)
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you're too sexy . . . for snark.
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(http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/funny-pictures-cat-is-scared-of-earthquakes.jpg)
Pretty strong aftershock around 1am this morning anyone else feel it?, or was everyone too passed out ;D
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i knew i had felt it! my partner didn't belive me. he was zonked out at the time. the house shook for about 2-3 seconds. i freaked . . . but then it stopped.
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It woke me up and i couldn't sleep for the next 30 minutes. Scarier than the first one because i was sleeping.
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I bet the west coast folk are pissing themselves at you east coast pussies freaking over a slight vibration equal to having the base of your Onkyo turned up to 11!!!
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i bet the east coast people look at california (budget issues, immigration issues, barbara boxer, gay marriage, arnold, power issues, drought issues, water shortage issues, mudslides, everyone suddendly can't drive when it rains, a fake world of self appointed importance) and say "since when does california matter?"
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i bet the east coast people look at california (budget issues, immigration issues, barbara boxer, gay marriage, arnold, power issues, drought issues, water shortage issues, mudslides, everyone suddendly can't drive when it rains a fake world of self appointed importance and say "since when does california matter?"
I think CA/DC is on a par on these two...DC probably wins by a nose in the self appointed importance category though
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funny . . . i was thinking the same thing as i typed.
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Everyone in DC is now jumping at the chance to tell their earthquake story and not a single one of them is any good
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It woke me up and i couldn't sleep for the next 30 minutes.
This. It wasn't scary as much as it was just a little unnerving. By the time I woke up enough to realize what happened, it was done.
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Whenever any smartacre from California gives me lip about being all surprised about an earthquake I always say "Oh yeah, well you guys would be all weirded out if you saw a 30-car presidential motorcade flying down the road with secret service dudes pointing mounted machine guns at you" and then they say "WOAH, does that really happen?!?" and then I quietly say "no" and run upstairs in shame and tears.
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I bet the west coast folk are pissing themselves at you east coast pussies freaking over a slight vibration equal to having the base of your Onkyo turned up to 11!!!
I am most definitely not an alarmist about these sorts of things. BUT, to be fair...
My fiance lived on the west coast (Bay Area to Palm Springs and all over in between) for the past 15 years and went through many many earthquakes. She was at work in DC when this happened and says she never felt the ground shake like that.
Something about the epicenter not being very deep and the fact that the earth here is "harder" makes a lower magnitude quake more noticable.
So it's easy to see why this sort of thing is alarming to folks around here.
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Actually that has happened to me twice. On 267 shortly after 9/11. They weren't really pointing their machine guns AT me. But the back windows of the black suburbans were open and the seats were occupied by dudes with machine guns.
As for California, I had the misfortune of being in LA recently. The traffic there really is unbearable. But I do love SF, even with the huge population of aggressive homeless. In fact, I love most of northern CA.
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i bet the east coast people look at california (budget issues, immigration issues, barbara boxer, gay marriage, arnold, power issues, drought issues, water shortage issues, mudslides, everyone suddendly can't drive when it rains, a fake world of self appointed importance) and say "since when does california matter?"
Someone on another forum said about California "Even the earthquakes are leaving!"
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Actually that has happened to me twice. On 267 shortly after 9/11. They weren't really pointing their machine guns AT me. But the back windows of the black suburbans were open and the seats were occupied by dudes with machine guns.
As for California, I had the misfortune of being in LA recently. The traffic there really is unbearable. But I do love SF, even with the huge population of aggressive homeless. In fact, I love most of northern CA.
When I lived there I found it a little amusing that us locals found the presidential motorcade a huge pain in the arse and just added more headaches to our commute while the tourists were clicking cameras with gay abandon.
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Actually that has happened to me twice. On 267 shortly after 9/11. They weren't really pointing their machine guns AT me. But the back windows of the black suburbans were open and the seats were occupied by dudes with machine guns.
As for California, I had the misfortune of being in LA recently. The traffic there really is unbearable. But I do love SF, even with the huge population of aggressive homeless. In fact, I love most of northern CA.
I remember that. Right after 9/11, there was a damn tank mounted next to the Pentagon and if you were driving on 110 from Rosslyn heading toward 395/DC, you'd turn the corner and then BAM, there's a tank pointed right at you. It sure didn't make me horny!
Eventually they took the tank away and replaced it with a hummer, which also featured a mounted machine gun.
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I think I've been to that club before...
gay abandon.
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It woke me up and i couldn't sleep for the next 30 minutes.
This. It wasn't scary as much as it was just a little unnerving. By the time I woke up enough to realize what happened, it was done.
....like a wet dream.
Brian
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As for California, I had the misfortune of being in LA recently. The traffic there really is unbearable.
I was going to say that Walkie forgot massive wild fires and the 10.
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Is this east coast/west coast thing still going on? Is this the new Biggie v Tupac? Do I need to remind you that we all lost in that one?
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(http://ihasahotdog.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/funny-dog-pictures-pug-life.jpg)
;D
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Is this east coast/west coast thing still going on? Is this the new Biggie v Tupac? Do I need to remind you that we all lost in that one?
....I'd say it was a win/win (strictly muscially speaking of course)
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uploaded a few pics from around town:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/distancexx
a bit concerned about saturday if we get really high winds with the damage that's already here.
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uploaded a few pics from around town:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/distancexx
a bit concerned about saturday if we get really high winds with the damage that's already here.
your photos are c with a circle arond them. i was hoping to shower much love on your cutie patootie cat sam.
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uploaded a few pics from around town:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/distancexx
a bit concerned about saturday if we get really high winds with the damage that's already here.
very interesting - thanks for sharing that. freaky sh*t.
(p.s. i grew cayenne peppers last year too, dried a bunch of 'em, they're still around. i may have grown myself a lifetime supply. much more excited about this year's jalapenos!)
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(p.s. i grew cayenne peppers last year too, dried a bunch of 'em, they're still around. i may have grown myself a lifetime supply. much more excited about this year's jalapenos!)
those were from last year and i ended up with far more than i could ever use. the ones i grew this year died after i transplanted them. still have jalepenos, habaneros and some other peppers, though. trying to find some more exotic ones to plant next year.
i wish i'd taken more photos the day of, but for the first couple hours i was pretty preoccupied with the house/neighbors, etc. by the time i got out and about, the whole town was a zoo and i just didn't feel like dealing with it.
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uploaded a few pics from around town:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/distancexx
a bit concerned about saturday if we get really high winds with the damage that's already here.
your photos are c with a circle arond them. i was hoping to shower much love on your cutie patootie cat sam.
the cat is actually a friend's. don't have any pictures of the cats living here up at the moment.
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those food pics look great ;D
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those food pics look great ;D
i wish i was more in the habit of taking pictures of food. i try, but i forget too often. or i'm in the rut of making the same thing again.
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BEHOLD THE POWER OF THE EARTH
(http://media.curse.com/content/images/2011/March/eve-online/japan-earthquake.jpg)
(http://sciblogs.co.nz/shaken-not-stirred/files/2010/11/haiti_earthquake_destruction_httptoplinestory.com.jpg)
(http://triplehelixblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/china-earthquake10.jpeg)
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6072/6078527116_416ed5c71a.jpg)
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BEHOLD THE POWER OF THE EARTH
i didn't even post the most horrific picture -- the television on the floor. might be too much for sensitive forum-goers.
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Smakie...did you get an early morning wake up call that 2020 is one bad ass mutherfucker
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anyone else feel it? whole house shook here in R'ville.
not that i've had a lot of experience with quakes, but i believe that was the strongest i've ever felt.
Time to dust off this thread...
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I was up at the time but in Greenbelt; didn't feel a thing. 2.3 is tiny but it was centered where a lot of people live, thus the hoopla.