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I Just Survived An Earthquake!
Lucky Cynic
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My house and apparently most of the Chicagoland area just had an earthquake. Roughly just before 4am, I heard a rolling rumble and my bed was rocking, my door rattling in the hinges. I felt the wall and oh shit, it was shaking pretty bad.
Now we live along the New Madrid fault which is pretty calm but it does kick rarely. This is the second time in my lifetime that it did. When things calmed, I hopped onto Twitter and sure as shit, it was an earthquake and people were tweeting left and right. You can check out the stream of people waking up and tweeting here.
Not damage or anything so it was pretty much just Mother Nature waking me up because she felt like it. More OFFICIAL news will probably trickle in come morning.
So, what natural disasters have you guys recently survived?
Now we live along the New Madrid fault which is pretty calm but it does kick rarely. This is the second time in my lifetime that it did. When things calmed, I hopped onto Twitter and sure as shit, it was an earthquake and people were tweeting left and right. You can check out the stream of people waking up and tweeting here.
Not damage or anything so it was pretty much just Mother Nature waking me up because she felt like it. More OFFICIAL news will probably trickle in come morning.
So, what natural disasters have you guys recently survived?
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That's it?
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I was in Eastern Washington at the time, at this highschool out in a huge open field, and people could watch the waves coming through the grass before it hit the school.
I am an etenal loop.
A human Möbius strip.
Also there was an ice storm 14 years ago that was fun.
But nothing recent.
A few years back the New Madrid kicked up about as badly as this one was. The next day, the highschool found A: the recently reworked sidewalks were all shattered and B: the football field and track field were nicely rippled.
Now in the year 2010...IT'S BACK FOR SECONDS
this winter...the midwest coast is toast
chris tucker is a wisecracking geologist
and harrison ford as the grizzled detective whose family was murdered by an earthquake and now seeks revenge
IN
[explosion]
Aftershocks2: Fault Lines in the Sand: Electric Boogaloo: The Quest for Curly's Seismograph
heh
I sort of picture myself as
there is this conductor-type person, standing at the end of everything
And I'm right there
he's all, this is the end, you've done everything, time to cash in, take a rest
and I'm perpetually
No just a moment please
"Get off my plates!"
Took me a bit to realize what it was, my family wasn't well off enough at the time to afford living anywhere but a trailer park at the time so when the house started shaking I thought it was just the laundry. After a few seconds I realized what was happening, screamed out "EARTHQUAKE!" and drove under my bed. Unfortunately the ground was shaking in an up and down motion, not side to side and my head kept hitting the ground and the bottom of my bed. It wasn't even a 4.0 or higher. My mom was out running errands at the time and she remembers that it hit while she was driving and animals kept running around every where on the roads, small ones like squirrels and raccoons and she didn't even know the ground was shaking.
Then there was that Nisqually earthquake. I live pretty far to the north of where it it so it didn't feel like much, but I remember that I was in school at the time. We dove under our desk like what we were supposed to do but instead of leaving once the shaking was over our teacher insisted we stayed put because we could hear the aftershocks if they hit. (I don't believe that is true at all and I remember saying so very quietly.) Once we showed up outside where we were supposed to line up and be accounted for everyone was worried where we were.
I can't recall any other earthquakes that were major enough to remember.
I'd probably be saying to the conductor "uh...oh shit! I forgot my coat. I left it back in 1999. Lemme just pop back and get it."
This is what happened to a (luckily) empty area of the city I am in now.
It cracked the dome of the state capital and messed up a little of downtown but not the old core of streets.
Or snow
So boring
truly a sign of the end
I know who you AAAAAAARRRREEEEEE
that was pretty great
maybe you should get out the old noose
Not building your city on a place where the earth has put up big "Fuck You" signs is pretty cool.
all jokes aside
I'm looking at what I typed there, most accurate description of my mindset that I could hope to come up with
There will never be a good time to end. There is always at least one more thing to see/do that would be worthwhile.
I'm going to be pissed right at the end that I won't see what happens tomorrow.
Sure. If you like things like safety and security.
I'm pretty fond of "Life"
Well, that's a shame.
What part of Illinoise do you live in?
That's why the "No just a moment please"
you & me sil
There at the end, like the annoying old woman at the front of the grocery quere fumbling for her change because she doesn't want the brief human interaction with the cashier to stop.
This is Llama's job.
Not yours...
Sitting on a "bad"?
You dirty wench.
you lecher
i was just laying in bed and i woke up to what i thought was someone like, shaking my bed or something
took me a second to figure out, then i just laid there like "huh, ain't that somethin'."
then it stopped and i got up
it is funny hearing people go all 'aaah quakes!' when they live in tornado or hurricane areas.