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Duck and Cover

Shorty6

Shorty6

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It's about two in the morning and I'm sitting at my friend's house in the Bay Area of California.

I was bored so I decided to post that in the past ten minutes there have been two earthquakes. The first one was just a baby, then this one that happened like two minutes ago was a 3.5. Rockin and Rollin.
 
the good ole San Andres fault runs right under the mission here in San Juan Bautista, we have tremors everyday, just enough to remind you where you live. Alamo just had a 3.5 and 1.7 is that where you were?
 
I dont know how you all stand the stress of living in those kind of "hotspots". Same with Florida/Gulf areas for hurricanes and mid-west for tornadoes. People work their fingers to the bone to have nice houses and things and then in one foul swoop mother nature can just come and destroy it all in a matter of minutes/seconds. I live in NJ so we dont have a lot of that activity and when we do its pretty mild. I give you all credit.
 
If you don't want anything but REALLY strange weather come like in NOVA. The woodbridge/Lakeridge/Dale City/Lorton area is really good at having some REALLY odd weather but for the most part everything "bad" has passed us by. *knock on wood.* All the torandoes passed us by, touched down either south or north of us. The one earthquake I can remember seemed like the base was bombing but surrounding areas got hit harder. We are in our own little "Valley" and things just pass us by. So if you want to have the strangest weather, 58 in the morning 101 by night fall in the summer, come live here with us!
 
kcaven said:
I dont know how you all stand the stress of living in those kind of "hotspots". Same with Florida/Gulf areas for hurricanes and mid-west for tornadoes. People work their fingers to the bone to have nice houses and things and then in one foul swoop mother nature can just come and destroy it all in a matter of minutes/seconds. I live in NJ so we dont have a lot of that activity and when we do its pretty mild. I give you all credit.
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I think when you live with it all your life it isn't a big deal, we were taught in school to "duck and cover" for earthquakes and bombings, (california child of the 60's:uhoh:) Here in the Bay area you (should) have an earthquake kit and just know what to do. yes the bigger ones (6,7) are still scary:eek:, but I think a tornado at night would be worse
 
witchbreeze said:
the good ole San Andres fault runs right under the mission here in San Juan Bautista, we have tremors everyday, just enough to remind you where you live. Alamo just had a 3.5 and 1.7 is that where you were?
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I used to live in Corleone, Sicily so I got used to earthquakes. Now I live in Lake Tahoe, but my friend I'm staying with lives in Walnut Creek, right next to Alamo. We've had a few up in Tahoe...weird.

There was a 6.5 here not to long ago, I was sitting in my friend's garage and we just felt this big jolt. I thought someone had driven into his neighbors house (which is attatched to their house) Then everything started shaking really really bad, couches, washer, dryer, ect. And being in the garage made it sound like we were in a kitchen pot with some kid banging on it with a spoon. There was nothing to duck under so I grab my panicking friend, who is completely useless at times like these, and shove her in the nearest doorway and then I crouched down in a corner with my head covered. Pretty scary.

But that said, I would take an earthquake ANY DAY over a tornado. F that. I don't understand how people can build their whole lives and then it just gets taken away, then they do it all again.
 
kcaven said:
I dont know how you all stand the stress of living in those kind of "hotspots". Same with Florida/Gulf areas for hurricanes and mid-west for tornadoes. People work their fingers to the bone to have nice houses and things and then in one foul swoop mother nature can just come and destroy it all in a matter of minutes/seconds. I live in NJ so we dont have a lot of that activity and when we do its pretty mild. I give you all credit.
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Here in Pittsburgh suburbs the worst we get is a bad thunderstorm!!:cool:
 
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