Nothing like starting you day with a Quake
 

MOTHER NATURE SAYS "HELLO"

California is always moving and shaking.

Just had a minor temblor...and it gets the juices flowing...:eek:

-Vic

Glad you're OK.:) Which juices of yours are flowing if you don't mind me asking?:eek:

I spilled my morning pint of Watneys.

LOL

...and people think that I have the classic MS-stumble, but if they only knew about my brew & salty chips...

LOL

j/k

Where was it on the Richter scale? I used to feel good about the baby quakes, just a release of pressure.

We were in the Northridge earthquake. That was a jumper with lots of aftershocks.

It was just a tiny quake (4.0).

Just enough to make things fall off of shelves if they were not secured.

Now the Northridge quake was a biggie. I remember running out of my office at CSUF and bouncing off of the walls (literally) in the 15'-wide hallway just to get onto the outdoor patio....and watch potions of the cement at McCarthy Hally fall onto the patio, 30' from me. That one actually threw me around a bit.

Vic...I slept right through it :D

Shelley,

We get so used to those things that they don't bother us too much,..., normally.

Sometimes I cannot tell a quake from the noise generated by a C-5A taking off from March AFB. Now that is a sign of letting my guard down!

LOL

I am having deja vu from your last thread about the big one coming Vic. Be careful out there Ok? And no more spilling flowing juices.

Since they're calling for the BIG ONE, any day now, your awareness is probably heightened, a bit:eek:

Sandy & Sally,

I am always paying attention to the quakes and patterns, but that may not mean too much.

At least our E-Kit is almost complete. I am just waiting for two small items to finish it: (1) Polypropylene Reverse Cutting Precision Sutures; (2) concentrated glucose tubes.

-Vic

Okay, I'm sorry, but this advice always crackups me bigtime. When dozens of sq. miles around you start crumbling in all directions with literally no warning, and you can't hop the chasm in front of you as another one causes you a 10-ft. lift, how careful are you really going to be right then?:eek::D

I keep my AutoGyro on standby at all times.

When in doubt...go UP!

WHUH? I so dont have these in my E-kit? Reverse cutting precision sutures:confused::confused:

So don't feel prepared now.

glad you all are ok I have a brother a distance north of you by san fran, went through the 89 one, glad no one was hurt be careful

Lmao! So true! I have this vision of being sucked into the ground by a large crack in the ground. And don't anyone tell me it can't happen. I just read somewhere (don't ask, I can't remember lol) about some cows falling through the crack of an earthquake. :yikes:

I thought the advice was go DOWN! :eek: Aren't you supposed to find an open area with no buildings and lay down flat?

( not many calls for earthquake advice here in Maine!)

(( minds OUT of the gutters folks! :p ))

Eons ago when I was on a project site in El Centro, the entire are was hit by a big one. The site, before the quake, looked like a scene from the TV series "Desert Rats". It is a vast desert bombing range.

During the quake our sleeping bags (with us inside) jumped off of the ground. One of our surveyors actually had the wind knocked out of him when he came down.

At dawn we had out first look around, and there was a fissure that crossed the entire range as far as we could see in both directions. All of the paved roads within four miles were destroyed. The fissure was only a few feet across, but was very deep.

Being that we were idiots, we walked up to the fissure and dropped a rock into it....and never heard it hit the bottom.

Here is an image of the site:

I have only been in an itty bitty 3.2 on the east coast. It sounded like a train was coming down the road, the fireplace doors rattled and my bed shook. A few minutes before it came the dog woke me up by jumping in bed with me and layed low.

What you deal with in CA is amazing!!!!

:eek:Mother Nature is certainly showing her power this yr.

Nobody told me about a "kit".. IL had quakes and we weren't informed!:eek:

I'm sure the politicians have an escape route.
*I'd like to show em one, alright* :D

*cute RW*

Our Emergency Kit:
(1) MRE's - 42 meals
(2) 40 gal of water
(3) Solar charged 120-volt power pack (for phones, PC and power in general)
(4) One refill of every medication that we use (good for 2 months)
(5) Clothing
(6) Medical supplies, ranging from Advil to sutures
(7) Radio (solar)
(8) Flashlights (solar)
(9) Matches (waterproof)
(10) 357, 45 and rounds
(11) Tent (3-person)
(12) NorthFace sleeping bags

Sounds like alot, but it fits in one 55 gal trash can.:)

It was fun to compile, easy to store and hopefully it will never be needed...

Be careful Vic and DW!! :eek: I don't know how well I'd deal with those if I lived there! Our tornadoes are bad enough in this neck of the woods!

Glad you are okay. Very good idea, Vic. I hope that you have your emergency supplies stashed in backpacks, in case you need to evacuate.

The entire E-kit is on wheels and can be lifted into any of our vehicles fortunately.

Wow Vic, that is one seriously impressive emergency kit! :D I've only felt a minor quake once when I lived in San Diego. I had fallen asleep on the couch and woke up around 1 am utterly confused because the couch was moving all over and everything was rattling on the walls. If I remember correctly the quake started near Joshua Tree but we could feel the tremors. Since I grew up in New England it was kind of exciting :eek: -- well maybe for only a moment. I still want to retire in Calif.! I'm heading back in Aug. for 2 weeks to escape the Texas heat. I think I might risk an earthquake to live in such a beautiful climate.

Natalie,

I hope that your 2 week stay here in CA is near the coast or in the mountains because August is normally very hot.

-Vic

hi vic,

i grew up in the san jose area. we had a few humdingers back then.

guess i shouldn't tell natalie now that she lives near me...she needs a tornado emergancy kit. :wink:

I knew it. I knew I wasn't looney, it can happen. Did you take a moment to imagine that it could have been right where you were sleeping? :yikes:

Yes, we talked about it for a long time while we were shaking the fine dust off of our sleeping bags. The dust from the fissure covered the entire range.

Yet, like idiots, we still had to look around and find out if there was any evidence of the quake.

By the way, the northwestern park of the range dropped two feet, or maybe the northeastern part was uplifted two feet.

It was an amazing event.

wow VIC .. sorry I missed your post ... that's gotta be so weird about the earth dropping ... or rising ... :yikes:

you're in my thoughts ... on a Packer note: I like Aaron Rogers ... YOU??

Vic you fogot to add 2 very important items:

TP and tampons (for us ladies, in case we are visiting)

hmmm, perhaps a nip or 2 of a certain 12 y/o scotch might be nice too. And don't forget the digital camera to upload photos

Vic, I'm staying on the coast in San Diego and I am so looking forward to it -- a piece of heaven. I know if you go further inland it gets much hotter. By the way, has there ever been a Calif. GTG?

I heard my first tornado siren last year in North TX! It was so freaky. This may be a dumb question, Curious, but is there such a thing as a tornado kit?? About a month or two ago a bad storm (incld. possible tornado?) came blowing through our neighborhood around 4 a.m. Curious, you may remember this. My husband had woken up for some reason and went downstairs and got on the internet. He was watching the weather radar and saw a very LARGE storm moving through. All of a sudden his ears popped and he thought "oh s%&*#*%!" maybe the barometric pressure had changed and a tornado was coming. Anyhow, I was in a dead sleep at 4 am and he came busting in the room yelling "get out of bed, come with me...get out of bed! get out of bed! :eek: I was totally disoriented. We got in the crawl space/tiny closet underneath the stairs, closed the door, and sat out the storm. It knocked down several fences in the neighborhood, took off some serious shingles on the roof, and uprooted a small tree next door. A tornado had touched down a briefly a few miles from our house. Anyhow, all I could think of was if the tornado came through and took our house away we'd be standing in the middle of the street in the rain in our skivvies. :wink: I'm thinking maybe I live in tornado alley???

Additional ideas for disaster emergency kits can be found online at www.ready.gov and at www.redcross.org/disaster/safety/fdsk.pdf.

After the milor earthquake we had in southern Illinois a couple of months ago I check the USGSA (or something like that) web site every day. I check it not necause I am worried but it really is very interesting. We just had another small one today. But it looks like Nevada and California are being pounded. Alaska is always having something also.