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Welles

Nice 'inking' job p?tr??k.

I've been through some doozies. The best part about them as opposed to other roughly equivalent natural disasters is that you get no warning. Boom...yer shakin' and quakin,' adrenaline goes through the roof, and it's over. You look around for the damage and get on with it, generally thanking God you made it through another one. They are a fine mortality test and definitely do shake up mundane existence.

Red Rooster

there was one were I was sitting down on my couch when I flew half way across the living room | I scared the snot out of me }P

Raven

Welles quote: "The best part about them as opposed to other roughly equivalent natural disasters is that you get no warning. Boom...yer shakin' and quakin,' adrenaline goes through the roof, and it's over. You look around for the damage and get on with it, generally thanking God you made it through another one. They are a fine mortality test and definitely do shake up mundane existence."

As I've also lived for several years in NY, FL, and NC I would have to agree with you Welles -- hurricanes and tornados are very bad news...and it's kinda hard on you knowing they are approaching and going through all that beforehand. Quakes are quick and done...but all of them can be deadly. Hurricane Andrew was one I escaped -- the Coast Guard was actually trying to give us the Homestead area for our next tour of duty...I objected very seriously to moving there (was living in St. Augustine, FL, at the time) though I wasn't really sure "why" I felt so strongly about not moving there, I liked FL very much....anyway, I refused to move and as my husband talked it over with the detailer about how he'd be forced to go by himself there for a couple of years and the hardship it would be, etc. the CG relented and instead offered us Rosebanks (S.I.), NY and I said "YES!" Shortly after we moved to NY Andrew hit Homestead, FL, and pretty much wiped it off the map. We would have lost everything, maybe even our lives. [stuned] Close call -- glad I refused to go there!

I've also seen a few tornados while in NC --- barely missed being in one in Elizabeth City one stormy afternoon....the sky was dark and leaden with a sick yellowish/greenish cast...it happened suddenly and ripped roofs off many buildings in town as we left! [shocked]

Raven

[shocked] Speaking of quakes -- hey Welles, did you notice the one this afternoon in S. Calif????!!! [shocked]

p?tr?

Wow Raven, looks like you had a couple brushes with death... [confused] . The only moment I remember coming close to immanent and painful death was when one day I...gulp...didn't do my homework. |

Welles

Nope. Missed it. Our area gets affected by the San Andreas fault and 'tributaries' (as I think of them). We don't get affected by So Cal, or the very seismic area near Point Arena. Plus Bonny Doon is on a granite upthrust so we are seismically more stable than anywhere in the area. B7 So much so that the geologists who come to teach at the Univ of Calif, Santa Cruz, all seem to end up in Bonny Doon. Heh.

PS I have considerable regard for Coast Guard folks.

Raven

[bustagut] [bustagut] That's hilarious, Sean! I hope missed homework is the most serious danger you ever have to deal with!

Welles -- glad to hear you are in a good area there and less likely to experience quake damage! [righton] No wonder the geologists like to stay there. [innocent]

Thanks, too, for your appreciation for us "Coasties." We're kinda forgotten until someone needs rescuing.

Red Rooster

"So much so that the geologists who come to teach at the Univ of Calif, Santa Cruz, all seem to end up in Bonny Doon. Heh."



funny [excited]


raven... he's had worst 8D

p?tr?

Accually, I fell out of a tree head first and landed on a block of wood... [confused] ...It was when I used to live at the Lighthouse Ranch which is a huge property with lots of big cyprus trees, and me and my friends were kinda kraaazy. I've never broke anything though, which in my mind is nothing short of a miracle.
Oh yeah, and when I was about 3 I got my fingers sliced off in a sliding van door, but they were able to sew them back on....ouch! [confused] |