Spirit - the amazing grey dewlap toulouse gander!

[Miss Lydia]

We started having them in 2012. Apparently they have had them before, but not since around 1968. Back then there were two big man-made lakes East Texas being filled up with water, and scientists think there was a connection. Now we have very deep salt-water injection wells around here, putting waste water from fracking underground. Geologists think that's why we are having earthquakes now. I guess the injected salt water is "lubricating" the fault or something. It's certainly not something I expected to experience when I moved up here. I just wish they would stop! We are going to have to start taking some anti-earthquake measures around here, since it is becoming apparent that these quakes are not going away.

When the last one came through here some folks had pictures fall off the wall and other minor things, we didn't even feel it in our part of the county. Are you saying the earth quakes are man made?

 

[ChristineR]

We started having them in 2012. Apparently they have had them before, but not since around 1968. Back then there were two big man-made lakes East Texas being filled up with water, and scientists think there was a connection. Now we have very deep salt-water injection wells around here, putting waste water from fracking underground. Geologists think that's why we are having earthquakes now. I guess the injected salt water is "lubricating" the fault or something. It's certainly not something I expected to experience when I moved up here. I just wish they would stop! We are going to have to start taking some anti-earthquake measures around here, since it is becoming apparent that these quakes are not going away.

Huh, that's interesting. I didn't know earthquakes could possibly be caused by fracking. Stay safe. I've never been inside during an earthquake. It's a bizarre sensation.

 

[Miss Lydia]

This is all sleet and it stings when it hits your skin.

 

[LightningTFarm]

The thinking of the seismologists and geologists is that it's not the fracking, it's the injection wells that could be causing it. They are studying it, so I guess we'll get an answer for sure in about 30 years. So far, our strongest quake has been about a 4.7 on the Richter scale, which is really small when you think about the 7.something one's you hear about in Asia or along the US Pacific Coast. The worst injuries I've heard of so far are an elderly lady who fell out of bed and broke her arm, and a neighbor whose head got cut when mirror that had been hanging above his bed crashed down on him. I think we need to start wiring pictures to the hangers on the wall and stuff like that, things we never thought about before.

 

[LightningTFarm]

Miss Lydia, I was looking at your pictures and thinking "what pretty snow!", until I got to the bottom and learned it was all sleet. Yuck!!! We do get sleet here sometimes, and I hate to have to drive in it.

 

[Iain Utah]

Miss Lydia, I was looking at your pictures and thinking "what pretty snow!", until I got to the bottom and learned it was all sleet. Yuck!!! We do get sleet here sometimes, and I hate to have to drive in it.

X2! I was just saying I'll take snow and perhaps even bitter cold over dangerous icy conditions.

 

[Miss Lydia]

X2! I was just saying I'll take snow and perhaps even bitter cold over dangerous icy conditions.

We've been here in this part of NC close to 18 yrs and I have never seen it sleet like this very strange.

 

[Triplell]

Hello everyone!!

It has now warmed up to 12F, last night it was -10F plus wimdchill. Today I let the ducks have a bath in a kiddie pool that I filled ny hand with buckets. It is strange to see dinggle berrys hanging on the back side of the ducks. It has been that cold here. Febuary and part of March will be our colder months then we get a ton of snow from Mid march to mid April. I am thinking of just collecting the goose eggs for now and see if they will set better come spring time or at least in March.

Lightening- I used to live in northern California and we had plenty of earthquakes. The big one that hit San Francisco and colapsed the bridge was felt by us big time. We had an inground pool and it moved 4 inches from its placing. We too had alot of damage but most of it was to the pool. Dad had most of his tools fall off the wall in the garage. I was waxing the top of the Ford van the old style and I fell off so to it. I cracked my jaw, cracked my elbow and my cheek bone as welll. We felt tremors for along time. I am glad you are safe just remember to get to a door way for safety as they are usually braced up really well.

 

[ChristineR]

Triplell - owwww!

I was outside feeding the horses when the 6.8 2001 Nisqually quake hit. I couldn't stand, the ground was moving so much. You could hear it coming, which was really weird. I didn't know what the noise was at first, then the ground started to roll.

 

[Iain Utah]

That is one experience I do not care to ever have, but I think I'd prefer an earthquake over a tornado. Fortunately, all we have to contend with here are winter snow storms and bitter cold, spring flooding, and if super dry, extreme wildfire problems. It's a slice of heaven.