Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[IamRainey]

"A" ticket rides.... Yeah, I do recall that but, for whatever reason I recall the phrase "E ticket ride" for that level of excitement...

No! You're exactly right! I actually woke up this morning thinking about my mistake.

It was Disneyland and when you paid for your entrance you got a book of tickets. They started with A tickets and you got a wad of them for things like the trolley that goes down Main Street. The Robinson Family Treehouse was maybe a B ticket. You got about 5 E tickets which were good for things like the Jungle Cruise and Haunted House.

I had a bunch of used ticket books for a long time but I've lost track of where they went. They had tons of A & B tickets but no one ever left Disneyland with an unused E ticket 'cause there just weren't nearly enough of them. ...but then there weren't hour long lines then either.

 

[IamRainey]

I lived in Guam in 1993 and we had a 8.1 earthquake that lasted nearly a minute. I remember sitting on the couch and just before the rolling started it indeed did sound like a freight train. Just as I stood up to figure out what the sounds was, the whole house was rolling and shaking. My husband and I grabbed the kids from their rooms and went into a closet that was supported by 3 main walls. We were with out power for several days and without water for at least a week. It was so scary!

I've been in hurricanes on the east coast, tornados in Texas and a Typhoon in Okinawa, That was my first earthquake and by far the most terrifying of all the others combined.

Holy mackerel! You've been through a LOT! Surprised to hear that quakes are at the top of your list of disasters to avoid.

What kind of construction were you living in when the 8.1 struck? I think it makes all the difference in the world.

In LA and Japan where we have lots of them buildings are built to earthquake standards and, by and large, make it through 4 and 5 and 6 point events. In the Middle East and Asia where they have masonary 2 and 3 story buildings that aren't built to earthquake standards they have massive trauma and horrifying loss of lives with 3 point quakes. Generally, wood construction and 1 story buildings do well in large quakes. And when they have damage they don't present the same falling danger.

In the Northridge quake we were in a 1 story California ranch that had huge wood rafters. One of them cracked open and you could see the twisting that the torque of the quake caused. But when we had our repairs done an engineer said we could just fortify it with decorative iron braces. When it was done it was a cool part of the history of the house and SoCal preserved.

We loved that house and we were happy there. We would have stayed forever until the 1997 shoot out at the Bank of America. It was one of the first mass murder shoot outs in the country but everyone's forgotten about it now. It was about a mile from our house. The gun store where the LAPD were equipping themselves with automatic weapons to counter the armory the bank robbers were walking down the street shooting was our back fence neighbor. That was far scarier than the earthquake and why we sold our house and moved on.

Funny what happens in a lifetime, isn't it? Who could anticipate any of it? But I think anything we can sit down and relate to others is, basically, an E ticket ride! (Glad I've finally got that right!)

 

[ChocolateMouse]

We live in a place where snow and floods are the only serious natural disasters. Our biggest quakes are the kind that maybe makes your furniture rattle and all the tornadoes miss us.

The spring floods can be rough, though. And 3' of snow is not abnormal.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Oh wow! Northridge must have been terrifying! I follow seismologist Lucy Jones on Twitter who was talking about how close last night's was to Whittier Narrows. I'm not from California, even though I've lived here for nearly 20 years, so every quake I feel is scary. We didn't have any damage, but both of my daughters woke up. Hope nothing was damaged at your house or your son's!

LOL... White Walkers! That's exactly what I thought last night: 2020 is really just missing zombies at this point. And not just the metaphoric ones we have in droves.

No! Please no zombies!! I've had enough 2020 already...

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Within a mile was the closest tornado for me. Way too many hurricanes, and one fracking induced earthquake that I could hear. It felt like a large heavy equipment truck rumbling by too and rattled the windows (old house) which was not too uncommon so I did not recognize at the time what was happening.

 

[feather13]

School Closed? NOPE! It hit ~7:30AM... I was brushing teeth when it hit.... I ran down the hall and out the front door as we lived on a cul-de-sac off Victoria Blvd & I wanted to see what Victoria was looking like...... It was a long quake and I got to see the 5 lane wide Blvd roll like the bottom of a river. Power poles swaying like sbamboo in the wind. It was so awe inspiring.....

We had one like that a few years ago. We were parked at a stoplight and saw the lights sway like there was powerful wind, then the bus in front of us rolled side to side, then it felt like our car was being pushed back and forth. It felt like there was a giant snake underground. I didn't see the street roll, but seeing one of those wide Orange County boulevards undulate like that must have been unreal!

 

[sourland]

I had a bunch of used ticket books for a long time but I've lost track of where they went. They had tons of A & B tickets but no one ever left Disneyland with an unused E ticket 'cause there just weren't nearly enough of them. ...but then there weren't hour long lines then either.

Find them. They are worth $$ to Disney fanatics and collectors.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I lived in Guam in 1993 and we had a 8.1 earthquake that lasted nearly a minute. I remember sitting on the couch and just before the rolling started it indeed did sound like a freight train. Just as I stood up to figure out what the sounds was, the whole house was rolling and shaking. My husband and I grabbed the kids from their rooms and went into a closet that was supported by 3 main walls. We were with out power for several days and without water for at least a week. It was so scary!

I've been in hurricanes on the east coast, tornados in Texas and a Typhoon in Okinawa, That was my first earthquake and by far the most terrifying of all the others combined.

You were on the ring of fire near the Marianas trench created when one plate pushed under another.
I live near the New Madrid fault where earthquakes have happened for millions of years and the modern big one over 200 years ago changed the course of the Mississippi river. We're long overdue for another big one but it has been quite quiet for a while. Maybe all the fracking quakes in the Midwest have alleviated the stress.
https://www.americangeosciences.org...earthquake-hazards-near-new-madrid-fault-zone
Family and friends have experienced several earthquakes here but I never felt one here. Perhaps I'm just a sound sleeper.
The only major quake I've ever felt was when living in Costa Rica, also on the ring of fire.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Back to Covid-19. A 28 year old Ob-Gyn doctor working with infected patients and contracted the virus in July has been intubated for a month, just died.

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

Good morning, All. I hope you are all well this morning.
Having my second cup of coffee now. I like to sit and relax and have it after all the chickening and ducking morning chores.