Whole Lotta Shakin Going On

[wendy]

okay, yall scare me, earthquakes, hurricaines, tornadoes, i don't want to be in any of it.

 

[conny63malies]

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Hurricanes are fun until 70 miles a hour wind speed. We ran outside with windbreakers as sails gettin blown around. Past 75mph the shingles are flying and the siding goes byebye.

 

[debilorrah]

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Linda, you are OK. NO ONE knows where Apple Valley is. East of Victorville, over the Cajon pass on the way to Vegas. Before Barstow.

 

[debilorrah]

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Hurricanes are fun until 70 miles a hour wind speed. We ran outside with windbreakers as sails gettin blown around. Past 75mph the shingles are flying and the siding goes byebye.

Here is the high desert of CA we are built for the occasional breeze (almost always at least 50 mph, by occasional I mean from May to September daily), earthquakes, floods, surprise snow storms and the rain storms that dump 10 inches in 15 minutes.

 

[kodiakchicken]

We had a 5.6 centered about 45 miles offshore this past weekend. I slept right through it. I think we get them almost as often as you do, Debi.

Of course, we don't worry about the quakes so much as we do the tsunami potential. We're all waiting for the next big wave.

And then, of course, we never "technically" have hurricanes, just high winds every winter with gusts over 100mph.

All that said - I wouldn't trade any of it to live in tornado country again!

 

[conny63malies]

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Hurricanes are fun until 70 miles a hour wind speed. We ran outside with windbreakers as sails gettin blown around. Past 75mph the shingles are flying and the siding goes byebye.

Here is the high desert of CA we are built for the occasional breeze (almost always at least 50 mph, by occasional I mean from May to September daily), earthquakes, floods, surprise snow storms and the rain storms that dump 10 inches in 15 minutes.

I only got flooded once as a kid. Well not us but the neighbor carborator(sp?) the engine part thingy had water in it standing in the garage. I prefer high and dry places where i live. Didnt help me always though. The ingenious non english speaking workers drilled a hole through the waterline right above the waterspout/outlet thing outside my apartment and flooded it .Before that they removed the upstairs neighors toilet without turning their water off

 

[debilorrah]

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You do have them like we do - your's are usually offshore and ours are inland. And I too will stick with shakers rather that ripper downers.

 

[Linda in San Diego]

you must have the tuck, duck and roll thing down pat!...

We duck and cover for earthquakes so... ???

I still remember the special ed kid that was over near some "required" signage when he started to yell "They are trying to kill us!" Upon closer inspection it turned out that the process for floods was also duck and cover - he swore that we would all drown and that they just did that for the "special ed" rooms - nope, I checked - that district had that for all the classes! Not only that - it was going to be a bell signal to tell us each specific type of emergency! LOL​

 

[debilorrah]

I always remember tuck, duck and roll and what to do if you catch on fire.... Earthquakes are GET IN THE DOORWAY!

 

[Pupsnpullets]

That quake was fun! I was in Borders Books and felt a real solid jolt with rattling of windows - but no-one else noticed a thing!! I was hoping for some panic action but none came

Then I got a phone call from my SO who was at Barnes & Noble, about a mile away, asking if I felt it cos he had. He also said no-one else in that store appeared to notice anything either!! Have we become immune to Mother Nature?