Consolidated Kansas

[OzawkieBantams]

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What kind of pheasants you got?

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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Yes my guineas just started laying about a week ago. It could be because I live so close to the nuclear plant though!

Sometimes I'm glad we don't have earthquakes or tsunamis...hail and tornadoes seem tame...no hurricanes...

Yay, landlocked Kansas!

You are right about tsunamis but very wrong about earthquakes. We had a 3.1 quake around Nortonville Ks a few years back. We get them all the time they are just very small that almost all people do not feel them. I think KU has some information on earthquakes in Kansas.


http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications/pic3/pic3_4.html
http://www.eas.slu.edu/Earthquake_Center/NEW/990513/5_13kcstar.html


I may be the only one in Kansas that would will say this, but I'd rather be in an earthquake then a tornado. Most earthquakes are small and do very little damage, a small tornado can still embed glass into a tire and destroy homes.

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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Sometimes I'm glad we don't have earthquakes or tsunamis...hail and tornadoes seem tame...no hurricanes...

Yay, landlocked Kansas!

We do have quakes almost everyday, but they are so small we dont notice them. In fact a few weeks ago the New Madrid fault line had a 4.3

http://showme.net/~fkeller/quake/index.htm

We moved from Northern California to Topeka in 79. My dad has always had Earthquake insurance on his home.

 

[ChooksChick]

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Hey now I also drive an 03' Monte also that’s what I drive as a daily driver to and from work! Grandma car

!! Glad your all okay! We have 9 broken windows and my F-350 is a mess. Here is a funny thing I think the storm scared eggs right out of my girls! I checked eggs before the storm got 14 and seen that all the girls were in bed . The next morning when I got up at 4 and went out to open the coop for the girls I seen that there was 4 broken undeveloped eggs on the ground under their roost. Odd?

Ok, not a grandma car in that if you put your foot in it, it GOES!! And it gets fabulous mileage for the amount of pickup it has...but it's a 2-door, which stinks- the doors are a city block long, so you can't open your door if someone parks right on you, and the turning radius just SUCKS. I'm used to driving BIG honking tall things or little tiny imports...I don't like the granny tank feel. I like that I could fit several grown men in my trunk...so it serves as a farm truck much of the time. I can get a pile of 10' 2" x 4" boards in it through the trunk, through the back seat flipped down diagonal, if I lay down the passenger seat. I can put a roll of 60" 100ft fencing in the passenger seat, too...so it works.

It's rather luxurious with all the auto everything and drives like a cloud...but I'm an active participant when driving and it feels a bit too soft for me.

...and now the wiring harness for the ABS system is acting up. I need to replace a bit of it to get the ABS and traction working again. Common problem, dangit.

 

[ChooksChick]

I know we get them, but they never amount to much...but now I'm wondering where Wolf Creek is with respect to the Nemaha Ridge...I've never paid attention to it.

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Sometimes I'm glad we don't have earthquakes or tsunamis...hail and tornadoes seem tame...no hurricanes...

Yay, landlocked Kansas!

You are right about tsunamis but very wrong about earthquakes. We had a 3.1 quake around Nortonville Ks a few years back. We get them all the time they are just very small that almost all people do not feel them. I think KU has some information on earthquakes in Kansas.


http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications/pic3/pic3_4.html
http://www.eas.slu.edu/Earthquake_Center/NEW/990513/5_13kcstar.html


I may be the only one in Kansas that would will say this, but I'd rather be in an earthquake then a tornado. Most earthquakes are small and do very little damage, a small tornado can still embed glass into a tire and destroy homes.

 

[chicken danz]

I'd go for the earthquakes too. Actually I was in one back in the early 70's. It moved my car to the other lane but it only lasted a few seconds. I've also been in a tornado. Those I really fear; but I can sense them when they are close. I don't run to the basement unless I feel that pressure change that goes with them. I've only gone to the basement twice in the last 40 years. Both times a tornado touched down within a mile. Showing my age aren't I? And if we got hurricanes; heavens, they give you a week's warning. It's your stupidity if you get caught in one. My family lived on the North Carolina cost for a couple decades so I know about that too.

 

[chicken danz]

Wolf creek isn't on the fault line. I worked there for 24 years and my husband is still there. Since the Japan thing all the nuclear plants in the U.S. have to be inspected and a determination made if they are safe up to an 8.0 (I think) earthquake. Wolf Creek containment (where the reactor is) was designed to withstand tornadoes and major things like that.
The person the NRC hired to do an assessment on Wolf Creek just got there last week. So I'm sure the findings will be in the news. It could be months though.

 

[backyardfarmer83]

I've lived in Kansas since I was three and I have yet to actually see a tornado. They've come pretty close from time to time, but never in my neighborhood (knock on wood). Thanks to my brother, though (who happens to be a part time storm chaser) we always know when to go down in the basement and when it's a false alarm. As far as the earthquakes, I never knew we get them here. And I have to agree that I'd rather experience an earthquake than a tornado.

 

[ck_dunham]

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Hey now I also drive an 03' Monte also that’s what I drive as a daily driver to and from work! Grandma car

!! Glad your all okay! We have 9 broken windows and my F-350 is a mess. Here is a funny thing I think the storm scared eggs right out of my girls! I checked eggs before the storm got 14 and seen that all the girls were in bed . The next morning when I got up at 4 and went out to open the coop for the girls I seen that there was 4 broken undeveloped eggs on the ground under their roost. Odd?

Ok, not a grandma car in that if you put your foot in it, it GOES!! And it gets fabulous mileage for the amount of pickup it has...but it's a 2-door, which stinks- the doors are a city block long, so you can't open your door if someone parks right on you, and the turning radius just SUCKS. I'm used to driving BIG honking tall things or little tiny imports...I don't like the granny tank feel. I like that I could fit several grown men in my trunk...so it serves as a farm truck much of the time. I can get a pile of 10' 2" x 4" boards in it through the trunk, through the back seat flipped down diagonal, if I lay down the passenger seat. I can put a roll of 60" 100ft fencing in the passenger seat, too...so it works.

It's rather luxurious with all the auto everything and drives like a cloud...but I'm an active participant when driving and it feels a bit too soft for me.

...and now the wiring harness for the ABS system is acting up. I need to replace a bit of it to get the ABS and traction working again. Common problem, dangit.

That is right at the wheels I had to do it to our Monte also! Easy fix. its a plug and play kinda thing.

 

[Kansaseq]

Not to change the subject, but Backyardfarmer83, is that your horse in your avatar? Beautiful!