2011-08-23, 13:55 | Link #16041 |
Knight Errant
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Age: 35
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Snow, earthquakes? I didn't know those things were REAL. I thought they were just fictional things on TV.
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2011-08-23, 14:15 | Link #16044 |
Gamilas Falls
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
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We prefer earthquakes to all the other natural disasters. Almost all the rest of them you can see coming and get the feeling of dread and inevibility. Earthquakes are sporatic and once it happens, it is over. Hurricanes you can see for days coming towards you. Tornadoes have a season. Floods and heavy snow get warning due again to the weather. Earthquakes? little to no warning and it lasts usually less than a minute. If the building didn't fall, or a fire didn't start, there usually isn't a problem afterwards. Unless it happens in the ocean, but out here our fault lines run through the land and not out at sea. So Tsumami aren't usually our concern...thought he one form Japan in March did throw a two foot swell our direction that messed up a bunch of marineas and I think killed one person.
Most Earthquake damage is from aftereffects, like fires started because of broken gas mains, or a few fallen buildings. True that sometimes freeways collape, but that was poor construction (by California standards). Chile's newer building are built to San Fransisco standards and ride out their giant earthquake with ease. Their older ones crumble. Our gripe up here is the Bay Bridge. In 1989, one piece fell loose on the Oakland side (it slipped out it the expansion gap, it was suppose to move, but not quite that far). They refitted it so it wouldn't do that, but also planned to replace that half of the bridge. It is now 2011. That replacement span will be completed in either 2013 or 2014. It adds nothing to the servicablitiy of the brigde at all (oh a bike lane...that can't go to San Fransisco because it is on only on half of the bridge...you could bike from Oakland to Treasure Island...whoopie.) But from 1989 to 2014 to make half a bridge....a bridge that was orginally built in less than 5 years. Heading out towards Truckee or Bear Valley would be easier from here. Or much closer, Mt. Diablo, but the experiance is more interesting in the Sierra Nevada than in a single lonely peak.
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2011-08-23, 17:36 | Link #16045 | |
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I was born in Alabama and spent half my life in the South, so thunderstorms are old hat to me.
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2011-08-23, 17:50 | Link #16048 |
Gamilas Falls
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
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Not many thunderstorms out here. My father takes timelapes photography of them when we get really good ones though. Did the same when we went to Florida or Arizona.
I don't see much panic though...except at swimming pools, rivers, lakes, and the ocean.
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2011-08-23, 21:58 | Link #16051 | |
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Edit: Oh, I see this has already been discussed. Last edited by Tom Bombadil; 2011-08-23 at 22:09. |
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2011-08-23, 22:18 | Link #16052 | |
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Join Date: Apr 2009
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But, the reason my family is in Southern California is because of the salubrious climate (in our opinion), not out of preferring earthquakes to hurricanes. That said, we occasionally get humid monsoon weather in late summer as well as, once in a great while, the remnants of hurricanes coming up from Central America. I saw a history blurb in the news recently that among the highest rainfall San Diego got in a day in August was during a hurricane. And just last winter I went up to Santa Cruz when a cold winter storm left snow on the nearby mountains. It didn't last the whole day, but it sure looked pretty the next morning. |
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2011-08-23, 22:23 | Link #16053 | |
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2011-08-24, 01:00 | Link #16054 | |
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Remember, the feeling of dread and fear may save your life. As long as the public is well trained to respond immediately to take cover, even an earthquake warning merely 10-30 seconds in advance is said to be very effective in reducing the death count.
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2011-08-24, 06:03 | Link #16057 |
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With CIA help, NYPD moves covertly in Muslim areas
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...08-24-06-10-47
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2011-08-24, 09:21 | Link #16058 | |
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DNA study deals blow to theory of European origins
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2011-08-24, 14:38 | Link #16060 |
Gamilas Falls
Join Date: Feb 2008
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Russian resupply spacecraft does not make it into orbit
I really hope the Dragon/Falcon combo works for NASA come December.
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