CALIFORNIA The Whole State thread

[SunnyDawn]

Actually when we have a lot of small earthquakes that is a good thing. That means that pressure is being relieved. If we go for a long time without any then you can start to get nervous if you wish. However worrying about it isn't going to help or hinder an earthquake either way so I keep supplies on hand for any emergency (earthquake, storm, fire etc) and then I don't stress about it. There's nothing more we can do so why worry about something we can't predict or control?

 

[wolftracks]

I lost my house in the 89 quake in Berkeley and haven't owned one since. Not FEMA fan after all of that either. Didn't have power for a week and the house was red tagged, but we met almost every neighbor in a 4 block radius. My oldest son Miguel was at a friends and the house was shaking so bad they all run out and he got pinned when the stairs collapsed, but luckily it was only his leg and feet and they got him out fast. I didn't know where he was for 1/2 hour and frantic. My two oldest had just gotten off BART and got home from Union City where they went to middle school. I was just waiting for my oldest daughter to come out of the bathroom and the next two had just gone outside. I had a radio on that went dead, waiting for Olivia to come and turn the Game on the TV. I had been in the hospital for my back and was in pain and on meds. The I heard it before I felt it and the whole place started shaking. I'm yelling at my girls to stop what they were doing on the stairs. Thought THEY were shaking my house. LOL Then I heard the neighbors yelling to get off the stairs and then "GET OUT GET OUT! Vanessa was 2 and Olivia and I ran out with her under my arm. Funny how you can be in so much pain and can barely move till you have too. Out front the wires were down and popping, people in the streets. A friend was on the freeway coming home and had just gotten to the light coming off the Cypress. He watched that thing falling behind him and no one pulled forward. They just stopped and watched. Luckily they were in a safe spot, but I've hated that part of the freeway since I was a little girl. I was OK right after we got out and my son got home. Even the aftershocks didn't bother me, but man, can you imaging the ones that have hit the world lately? Those poor people. And someone will say it's because they don't believe this and they do that. Funny they don't say things like that about Tornado Alley. The big ones don't scare me as much, but the little ones or the ones far away make me queezy. I get light headed. Sometimes I don't feel anything and find out later why I got sick. LOL

Still! I'll take a shake over a tornado. I was born in Kansas while my mom was visiting family, but she lived in Oklahoma. I was there mostly till I was almost 4 and I still remember cellars and watching the doors shake and seeing a car on a house and everything torn to ribbons. Hate them! "We aren't in Kansas anymore tutu. "

I haven't talked to my brothers but a couple of times since Bill died, but they live in Emeryville, so I guess I should see how they are and also my sister in Alameda. Quakes scare the crap out of her.

 

[SunnyDawn]

Amazing what the body can do with adrenaline pumping through it!

I agree, tornadoes do much more damage than quakes do. I'd rather deal with them any day!

 

[wolftracks]

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YUP! Hurricane?? No thank you.

Just talked to my sister, she's going to call me back after she finishes visiting with her neighbor. She said it was loud and woke her up.

Ya know I only remember quakes after I was in my 20's. First one I ever remember feeling, I had a huge pot I bought it the San Jose fleamarket sitting in the corner of my living room at next to the bay windows. Hardwood floors. That sucker was traveling across the room and ended up kitty corner away all the way across the room. LOL That's when I was still living in Oakland so I must have been 20, because I moved to Union City a couple of months later. First one I heard then I thought a train was coming through. Fall out of the bed. LOL

 

[ChicksterJo]

Glad you all are okay! I didn't feel anything down here, but then again, if a small quake happens at night and I'm sleeping, I won't wake up. Most times I sleep like a log through those things. I haven't felt one very big. We moved to Northridge AFTER the quake there. Lots of those big houses went up for sale (really cheap) and a few years ago they were selling them for a million.

There would be nice places to move to in the south or the middle of the US but I am scared of tornadoes and hurricanes more than I am about quakes and blizzards. I could stay inside during a blizzard

BTW: The property we are looking at, the seller doesn't have an agent. We don't even have one yet. I want to try to get an agent from there because I am not sure if my SO will be able to go up to see the property. Maybe the agent could go and make a video of it. I know, it sounds bad, but I don't know what else to do

 

[wolftracks]

Looks like I'm going to lose another Davis hen. She's about 5. Maybe older like 6. Looks like death. She's been moulting and her feathers are aweful, I noticed she was limping today. Checked her feet and put some ointment on it after I cleaned it, but still didn't see anything. I lost some the same age a while back. I only have 3 left of the originals that Bill bought me, so I'm so sad that she's not well. She eats and drinks, but I think my girl is just tired and spent. She's a little thin, but heavy and usually when they get this old for me, they become prolasped and she's a little swollen. I soaked her and used Prep H, but she just looks so tired. She just stares at me. I lost all my FBCM chicks to cats this year. Had some hatch and the broodies killed them. Had some DIS. Not a good year for my babies. No eggs from the other two, so I'm probably going to lose them all before spring and no babies.

I'm so sad right now. I hate when they get old. I didn't have them until they were older and Bill got them for me to build up my BCM flock, but I failed. I hate to fail. Last year I had 10 hens and 2 roos. Now only 3 hens and 1 roo. I just know she only has a couple of days left if that.

 

[ChicksterJo]

So very sorry for what is happening to your hen. I so hate when they give you that look of despair or whatever it is...their eyes are just staring straight at you and you want to know what they are thinking. When I lost an 8 week old FBCM I was devastated, she died right in front of me, having a seizure and she actually flopped spontaneously from one side of the run to the other, and all I could do was scream. It is probably even harder when you have had them for a long time.

 

[wolftracks]

If only I had been born rich instead of..................well....you know

This listing is in the Central Valley


http://modesto.craigslist.org/grd/2627128759.html

 

[ChicksterJo]

Wouldn't those be great?! Those are a steal for their size.

 

[wolftracks]

I know! Bill would have been on these, only I bet they would have been hide outs for video game playing. LOL

Yep I gotta find really cheap land a really cheap truck or a free machanic to fix my van. I can't get diddly home when I find it..

They just seem so perfect and I've seen those units before and wanted one, just didn't have chickens at the time and had other uses.I just figure if I find something that could be used by someone on BYC, why not post it. Then there's the mixed emotions of seeing someone use them and really make something of them and wanting them so badly I may be jealous if they do. Nah, I want someone with an imagination to buy them and make them into an awesome coop.