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| earthquakes [message #83579] |
Mon, 26 April 2004 17:35   |
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IRON FART
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Registered: September 2003
Location: LOS ANGELES
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Oh joy :eh:
The small ones are kinda fun, but i'd rather be elsewhere when something like that hits.
My house already withstood one major earthquake.
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| earthquakes [message #83631] |
Mon, 26 April 2004 19:39 |
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U927
Messages: 709
Registered: February 2003
Location: Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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Trust me, you do NOT want to be in a large earthquake. It is possibly one of the most terrifying experiences you will ever encounter, and I don't mean terrifying as in "OMG WE WENT TO TEH HAUNTED HOUSE WE WERE SO SCARD BUT WERE OK NOW", but honest to God fear, something that you wish you could erase from your memory.
Let me give you a brief description.
You are reading a book on your desk, when you begin to feel your chair moving under you. You get up to check, but as you do, you notice the pencil on your desk jumping slightly. Then comes the big one. The room itself begins to shudder around you, disorienting you as you reach for the door. Once you manage to open it, you run down the hallway, tripping twice over the fallen paintings and broken vase. Once you reach outside, it's no better. You look above to se the power lines swaying, becoming tense and slack throughout the quake. People are running out of their houses, some bloodied by the broken glass that has fallen on them. The rest of your family emerges from your home, and you huddle by the car as the quake continues.
A minute after it began, it ends.
And this happened only in my city. 300 miles away, three cities were leveled to the ground, killing thousands and leaving thousands more injured.
Satisfied?
EDIT: I forgot to mention when and where this happened. It was in Cali, Colombia, 1997. I was only 10 years old at the time.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle
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| earthquakes [message #83643] |
Mon, 26 April 2004 20:07 |
z310
Messages: 2459
Registered: July 2003
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umm... what to do in september then 
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| earthquakes [message #83652] |
Mon, 26 April 2004 21:20 |
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Alpha6723
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Registered: April 2004
Location: Canada
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Thankfully I live in Canada. Nothing here except... well nothing.
The Alpha Male.........was then.........is now...........always will be.......You know me..........
The Alpha Male
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| earthquakes [message #83733] |
Tue, 27 April 2004 07:23 |
z310
Messages: 2459
Registered: July 2003
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i was told i slept through a 5.6 before 
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| earthquakes [message #83745] |
Tue, 27 April 2004 08:12 |
Homey
Messages: 1084
Registered: February 2003
Location: Canada
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There was a 5.5 i think in lake erie a few years ago. Actually near vancouver can get some large eather quakes. Thats about it tho in Canada lol
Homey
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| earthquakes [message #83753] |
Tue, 27 April 2004 08:51 |
KIRBY098
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Registered: February 2003
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You want scary ladies? Try riding out a hurricane on an aircraft carrier for a week.
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| earthquakes [message #83822] |
Tue, 27 April 2004 15:32 |
z310
Messages: 2459
Registered: July 2003
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Sorry im only 14 and never exoerianced anything like that
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| earthquakes [message #83824] |
Tue, 27 April 2004 15:38 |
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YSLMuffins
Messages: 1144
Registered: February 2003
Location: Moved a long time ago (it...
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Earthquakes are not "fun" things to be in. I haven't been in one thank goodness but I still wouldn't wish one on my worst enemy. Possibility of countless deaths and millions of dollars in damage? Not something I'd want to ever experience.
-YSLMuffins
The goddess of all (bread products)
See me online as yslcheeze
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| earthquakes [message #83852] |
Tue, 27 April 2004 17:18 |
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SuperFlyingEngi
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Registered: November 2003
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Ahh, a hurricane's not gonna topple an aircraft carrier, those things displace so much water and weigh so much. Sucks to go up top, though. And how were you in one for a whole week, Kirby? Don't aircraft carriers seek a new temporary patrol location when hurricanes come in on their spot?
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt (1918)
"The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect "domestic security." Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent. --U.S. Supreme Court decision (407 U.S. 297 (1972)
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| earthquakes [message #83865] |
Tue, 27 April 2004 18:08 |
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SuperFlyingEngi
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Yeah, but "riding out" a hurricane for a week would genrally imply that planes aren't coming off of that deck anytime soon. Besides a couple defensive missiles, aircraftcarriers main purpose is to launch off planes to defend stuff and break stuff.
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt (1918)
"The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect "domestic security." Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent. --U.S. Supreme Court decision (407 U.S. 297 (1972)
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| earthquakes [message #83866] |
Tue, 27 April 2004 18:12 |
z310
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Registered: July 2003
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Yeah, but "riding out" a hurricane for a week would genrally imply that planes aren't coming off of that deck anytime soon. Besides a couple defensive missiles, aircraftcarriers main purpose is to launch off planes to defend stuff and break stuff.
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| earthquakes [message #83951] |
Wed, 28 April 2004 05:40 |
KIRBY098
Messages: 1546
Registered: February 2003
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Yeah, but "riding out" a hurricane for a week would genrally imply that planes aren't coming off of that deck anytime soon. Besides a couple defensive missiles, aircraftcarriers main purpose is to launch off planes to defend stuff and break stuff.
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We were coming back from a Med/Red 6 month deployment after the first Gulf War. We were in the Atlantic in transit back to Norfolk which takes two weeks. One week into the cruise we hit the middle of hurricane season during the same time frame as the movie "Perfect Storm". There was one large hurricane off the coast of New England, One off of the carolinas, and one was almost down in the Gulf preparing to hit Bermuda. Considering Norfolk's relative position to these storms, we had no choice but to cruise off the coast until the carolinas strom cleared. There really was no where to go, and we were buffeted by all three storms which were throwing disturbances right at us.
No, a hurricane will not sink a carrier, but it will punch holes in the 1/4 inch steel above, and below the armor belt. You can't eat, sleep, or work in weather like that, but somehow you do.
Other info: No, a carrier will not launch in a hurricane unless it's mission critical, and no, it will not make the carrier move from it's base of operations.
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| earthquakes [message #83953] |
Wed, 28 April 2004 05:44 |
KIRBY098
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You want scary ladies? Try riding out a hurricane on an aircraft carrier for a week.
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*yawn*
I've spent a horrific evening with Hareman in UT.
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I have seen him play. He and I were in the same clan briefly, and I sympathize.
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| earthquakes [message #83954] |
Wed, 28 April 2004 05:46 |
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Sanada78
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Registered: April 2003
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Heh, we even get earthquakes here in the UK. It happened when I was trying to get to sleep at 1 AM.
Caused some structural damage on older buildings, but it was nothing compared to what you get where you are.
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was that the one in Dudley or the group in Beswick Manchester?
I live near manchester and when they had the group of quakes in 2002 i think it was (just after the dudley quake) that was a nightmare....but hell i even felt the dudley one, apparently it was felt as far away as Blackburn.....for a "small" quake that's something..... 
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Yeah, the Dudley one, that was it.
I thought it happened last year? I can't really remember now.
I'm in Northamptonshire, which I think is pretty near to Dudley. It did shake the house a bit and things on the shelves rattled.
After woulds, I was like, WTF???? At first, it sounded like a plane was going to crash into the house.
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