It was more a feeling of 'what the heck'! lol
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EARTHQUAKE
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We have had a few bumps in the night lately that are most likely small quakes, but they are no big deal and not reported on local news.
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At least you can see a twister coming. You can't 'see' a quake.
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Oren presented the following explanation :
Doing sarcasm is hard to translate to text IMO. I think that is the reason for emoticons, no? ^^
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Exactly! Can't do a thing to stop a shaker, so have fun riding it out!
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Dayam! Fairview Oklahoma has had several quakes!
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We can't always see them and have to often rely on the weather reporters or storm chasers for locations. Occasionally, a tv station will be filming live from towers, so we can see when transformers blow up and know about what street they're on.
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Eagle posted for all of us...
And none too soon!
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Eagle posted for all of us...
He makes most of us cringe. I'm glad you have a better disposition than I do...
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Shade tree Guy posted for all of us...
We will all have to change our name to Bob. That will throw the newsreader stats into orbit.
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Oh geeeeeez! Watching for blown up transformers to see what street gets hit? 8-o Don't go outside when that happens or you'll be a fried Maggie!
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Tekkie® was thinking very hard :
I do here. I'm on the defense on another NG most of the time.
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We had a small one hit about 3/4 of a mile south from us and take the roofs off a strip mall and some surrounding houses a couple years ago. Another one jumped the river and sent north of us about 3/4 of a mile north of us in the air then came back to the ground and took out a truck stop NE of town.
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I used to be more active on alt.hvac, which I fondly called alternating havoc. Know the concept of being on the defense most of the time. The folks on alternating havoc were not very kind.
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Doesn't shake you up about a twister hitting your home? I think I'd have a BIG room in the house that is twister proof. I'd prolly spend most of our time in that room durring tornado season! Earthquakes don't scare Me, but tornadoes do. :-? Maybe because we live in a earthquake prone area?
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Same thing on scorched-earth. I have several of the people there in My dungeon so I don't have to put up with the H&D. I can enjoy myself here without the crappola.
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Earthquakes are rare here, and I would rather keep it that way, there apparently have been some but they didn't affect me at all, only felt one when I lived on the 17th floor of an apartment building many years ago. Tornadoes are also rare, one or two every three of four years within 100 miles or more, living on stable land and with relatively non-violent weather does have its benefits.
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I think a lot of it has to do with *familiarity* with a risk.
Things with which you have no first-hand experience can conjure up all sorts of nightmarish scenarios, in your imagination. OTOH, practical exposure allows you to more accurately gauge those risks in a REAL context.
Folks who've never encountered a cougar, rattlesnake, tarantula, gila monster, poisonous spider, etc. might cringe at the thought. In practice, you realize they aren't going to CHARGE you but, rather, will shy away -- unless you provoke them! So, instead of thinking that they are "lying in wait" for an unsuspecting "you" to come along, you realize they're going to ignore you -- unless you force them NOT to!
Coming to this realization WITHOUT direct experience is difficult.
Seeing the devastation of a "natural disaster" leaves your imagination unconstrained to IMAGINE what it must have been like. In practice, I suspect the appraisal is very different.
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That's true. It gets very cold around Rapid City, so I limit My trips there to spring time. I guess living in Southern California's warm weather has Me spoiled. [earthquakes are an afterthought] ^^
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Interesting thought. :o)
I'm thinking I wouldn't want to be anywhere NEAR a Grizzly bear!
I'm not sure I would agree with that.
Try living through a BIG tornado, or something like Hurricane Catrina, or an earthquake that does several BILLION dollars in damage and think that Don. :/