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[microchick]

We had an earthquake this morning at 7:02. Center was in OK near Pawnee. We worked on the chicken house shed yesterday tinning out the remaining east side until late so we slept in and didn't feel a thing.

. I guess they felt it as far north as Southern Iowa and East in St Louis so it was pretty widely felt around the area.

Okay, I'll take a closer look at the Hova Bator. I've been watching SearchTempest and the want ads here but haven't found much in my price range. I know I've looked at the 1602 and the Genesis. Any others I should look at?

 

[Bunnylady]

5.6 is a pretty good sized bump - or shimmy, or however it felt. Hope it didn't do much damage.

We have a lovely cool morning, courtesy of Hermine. 8 to 10 inches of rain in our area; the highest wind gust recorded at the airport was about 30 mph. As tropical systems go, it coulda been a lot worse.

 

[pennyJo1960]

5.6 is a pretty good sized bump - or shimmy, or however it felt. Hope it didn't do much damage.

We have a lovely cool morning, courtesy of Hermine. 8 to 10 inches of rain in our area; the highest wind gust recorded at the airport was about 30 mph. As tropical systems go, it coulda been a lot worse.

I understand that we are pretty weather calm enviroment
kinda lay in in between Rainier and St Helens two active volacanos
inside Washington state borders.. we had some good solid rain yesterday but the
plants really needed it

 

[microchick]

Penny1960, I think if I had a choice between living where we live where there is the chance of tornadoes, blizzards, heat waves and the occasional burp from the New Madrid Fault and living between two active volcanoes I'll take my chances with the first group. I have to salute anyone who lives in the shadow of those two sleeping giants.

 

[Alaskan]

5.6 is a pretty good sized bump - or shimmy, or however it felt. Hope it didn't do much damage.

We have a lovely cool morning, courtesy of Hermine. 8 to 10 inches of rain in our area; the highest wind gust recorded at the airport was about 30 mph. As tropical systems go, it coulda been a lot worse.

Not bad at all tropical storm wise. Of course y'all are already pretty waterlogged though...right? Hope even more water wasn't too much of an issue.


It was cute, on the Alaskan Facebook page some girl was asking what to do to keep her tarped awning from blowing away.....and why the winds were so bad.





The responses were "tie it down, pack it away, or realize it will blow away. This is Alaska in the fall, 100mph wind is totally normal, and it can gust way higher. Get used to it."

 

[Alaskan]

Penny1960, I think if I had a choice between living where we live where there is the chance of tornadoes, blizzards, heat waves and the occasional burp from the New Madrid Fault and living between two active volcanoes I'll take my chances with the first group. I have to salute anyone who lives in the shadow of those two sleeping giants.

I live close to a volcano!

But not within normal lava range that would be horrid. I am within ash range, but I have only been hit by ash once or twice.

 

[microchick]

I live close to a volcano!

But not within normal lava range

that would be horrid. I am within ash range, but I have only been hit by ash once or twice.

I don't know what it is but there is something about volcanoes that scares me spitless. I remember going to see an ice cave that is under an old dormant Volcano crater and then walking to the top of the crater. I couldn't wait to get down and wend down faster than I went up.

I don't think I'd do well living by one.

 

[getaclue]

Earthquakes scare the stew out of me.

 

[Alaskan]

Those don't bother me at all.

Which is good, since we get lots, often 6. and higher.


Flooding... I am scared of flooding, and entire cliffs eroding.

 

[Latestarter]

I love watching volcanoes... from a safe distance! Wouldn't really want to live near enough that I'd have to worry about lava, pyro flows, ash fallout (and roof collapse), etc. They sure are awesome to watch when they blow though. I'd love to see/witness Yellowstone go off, but then at the same time, realizing a full blown super volcano like Yellowstone could pretty much be an extinction level event for humans, I guess I can do without that. I've only experienced a couple of earthquakes, and they were mere rumblers, nothing near the "San Andreas" caliber/quality. The first one I was sitting home alone about 15 miles from the Navy base I was stationed at, which was one of two main anti-submarine bases on the east coast at that time. It was also the peak of the cold war and we were routinely tracking Soviet SSBN submarines out in the Atlantic. The fear at that time was pretty real and if they had shot first, that base would have been a priority target. I thought maybe it had happened, but no flash of light, so realized it was a quake. I've always been fascinated by mother nature's wrath and love big storms, hurricanes and tornadoes especially. Of course I don't like the personal loss these things cause, or the loss of life, but they are some impressive to observe.

OK so call me weird, but a nice smaller sized asteroid impact in a non heavily populated area would be pretty cool too. Looking for more than the Tunguska event, Kinda like the one that left the meteor crater in AZ. About a mile across, but less than the one off the Yucatan Peninsula (Chicxulub crater) that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. Then again, a medium sized one dropped in a certain area of the world might solve a lot of problems... justsayin