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Luturb
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I've been living in the Bay Area for 5 and a half years now, and I am very disappointed with the earthquake activity so far. The few tremors I have felt were barely strong enough to make my computer monitor jiggle. As far as I can tell earthquakes are seriously overrated. Dammit I want to see some buildings come down! I want to see insurance companies writing checks! To the San Andreas fault I say bring it on! If California is reduced to a sea of rubble I will just go back to Montana and be a farmer (assuming I am not killed in the earthquake).
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Nahualli
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Posted: 04/15/04 - 12:49 Post subject:
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Dude.. shut up. Just because you haven't lived through a major earthquake doesn't mean it's something we enjoy. Shit's scary when it comes down to it. The 89 quake in SF and the 88 Northridge quake were the only ones I have been in but that's seriously enough to put me off earthquakes for the rest of my life, despite all the "not strong enough to get me out of bed" jokes that get passed around.
And Khrath.. they've been saying that as long as I can remember. We aren't any more likely to have a major earthquake now than we were back in '88. "The Big One" has been a doomsday looming on the horizon since I was 8.
-Nah-
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khrath
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Posted: 04/15/04 - 12:53 Post subject:
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I WANNA SEE THE GROUND GIVE WAY, I WANNA WATCH IT ALL GO DOWN
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Nahualli
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Posted: 04/15/04 - 12:55 Post subject:
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| Khrath wrote: | | I WANNA SEE THE GROUND GIVE WAY, I WANNA WATCH IT ALL GO DOWN |
That's not exactly how it would happen, sir. For half of California to sink into the ocean there would have to be room for the plate it's sitting on to move...which is about .. oh.. 4 centimeters tops.
-Nah-
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khrath
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Posted: 04/15/04 - 12:56 Post subject:
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i can dream man, i can dream
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Tiluvas
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88 Northridge? I think you mean 92, but yeah. That one was scary shit. I remember driving up and down the streets around Chatsworth where the first levels of parking complexes just completely gave way. Seeing a lot of cars and trucks all lined up and all smashed is quite a sight.
Also, this guy says that every couple of decades that we will have a major earthquake? Uh, it's pretty much been that way for as long as I can remember.
I was twelve or so when the Northridge quake hit. I was sleeping, and I remember having a dream about my recently deceased great grandmother. She was whispering something to me, and I couldn't figure out what she was saying, so I kept getting closer and closer to her in the dream. I was inches away from her, and she all of a sudden screams "WAKE UP" to me. I, of course, wake up all startled and sit up. About two seconds later, the earthquake hit. I had a lot of new shelving that I had just installed that weekend, and it all came crashing down, most of it landing on my pillow where my head would have been.
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khrath
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Posted: 04/15/04 - 13:06 Post subject:
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man that's like some twilight zone shit
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Zonk
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Posted: 04/15/04 - 13:13 Post subject:
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I wish it would be half of L.A. to fall in the ocean instead of San Fransico but it looks highly probable that it will be San Fransisco. 
People in East L.A. need to start buying beachfront property. 
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Syke
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Posted: 04/15/04 - 13:45 Post subject:
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| Khrath wrote: | | man that's like some twilight zone shit |
fo real
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Nahualli
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Posted: 04/15/04 - 13:56 Post subject:
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| Tiluvas wrote: | 88 Northridge? I think you mean 92, but yeah. That one was scary shit. I remember driving up and down the streets around Chatsworth where the first levels of parking complexes just completely gave way. Seeing a lot of cars and trucks all lined up and all smashed is quite a sight.
Also, this guy says that every couple of decades that we will have a major earthquake? Uh, it's pretty much been that way for as long as I can remember.
I was twelve or so when the Northridge quake hit. I was sleeping, and I remember having a dream about my recently deceased great grandmother. She was whispering something to me, and I couldn't figure out what she was saying, so I kept getting closer and closer to her in the dream. I was inches away from her, and she all of a sudden screams "WAKE UP" to me. I, of course, wake up all startled and sit up. About two seconds later, the earthquake hit. I had a lot of new shelving that I had just installed that weekend, and it all came crashing down, most of it landing on my pillow where my head would have been. |
No, sorry I didn't mean Northridge I meant Whittier. I don't remember where the epicenter for that one was I don't think it was Whittier tho for some reason.
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Nahualli
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Posted: 04/15/04 - 14:00 Post subject:
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| Zonk wrote: | I wish it would be half of L.A. to fall in the ocean instead of San Fransico but it looks highly probable that it will be San Fransisco.
People in East L.A. need to start buying beachfront property. |
Not exactly... the fault line turns towards the Pacific around Monterrey.. and dips into the ocean just a short hop south of San Francisco. In fact.. the San Andreas fault hasn't been (to my knowledge) responsible for any recent earthquake activity in northern california. We have a splinter of that fault that runs under Hayward and out in the valley that has been responsible for the earthquakes here in the past 30 years or so.. maybe the 1906 earthquake was from the San Andreas I don't think so tho... it's a little too far away for that.
People in East LA wouldn't really have to BUY beachfront property now would they? Considering they will BE on beachfront property. 
-Nah-
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Owyyn
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Posted: 04/15/04 - 14:13 Post subject:
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| Luturb wrote: | | I've been living in the Bay Area for 5 and a half years now, and I am very disappointed with the earthquake activity so far. The few tremors I have felt were barely strong enough to make my computer monitor jiggle. As far as I can tell earthquakes are seriously overrated. Dammit I want to see some buildings come down! I want to see insurance companies writing checks! To the San Andreas fault I say bring it on! If California is reduced to a sea of rubble I will just go back to Montana and be a farmer (assuming I am not killed in the earthquake). |
Actually, Montana is on a fault line as well. Well, western montana is. There's been a couple small quakes since I've been living here... but not even enough to knock things off the walls. The 'big M' hill in Butte is actually a dormant volcano.
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Banzai
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Posted: 04/15/04 - 14:43 Post subject:
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SF is due big, LA has has small ones in recent history but we are overdue for a jolt as well.
I'm thinking within 3 years SF will get another big one, then a few years after that LA.
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Silvermouse
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Posted: 04/15/04 - 16:26 Post subject:
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| Nahualli wrote: | Dude.. shut up. Just because you haven't lived through a major earthquake doesn't mean it's something we enjoy. Shit's scary when it comes down to it. The 89 quake in SF and the 88 Northridge quake were the only ones I have been in but that's seriously enough to put me off earthquakes for the rest of my life, despite all the "not strong enough to get me out of bed" jokes that get passed around.
And Khrath.. they've been saying that as long as I can remember. We aren't any more likely to have a major earthquake now than we were back in '88. "The Big One" has been a doomsday looming on the horizon since I was 8.
-Nah- |
Here here! The quake in '89 knocked my ass to the ground 80 miles north, I can imagine how neat it was farther south. That freeway collapsed killing so many people, I mean it crushed them like you might crush an aluminum can.
I'm really not disappointed when there is little to no earthquake activity.
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Occulis
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Posted: 04/15/04 - 16:35 Post subject:
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We get floods. Very amusing! I love seeing roofs ripped off buildings while some d*****t thinks his jacked-up 4wheeler is going to make it though ten feet of floodwater.
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Luturb
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Posted: 04/15/04 - 16:40 Post subject:
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| Silvermouse wrote: | | Nahualli wrote: | Dude.. shut up. Just because you haven't lived through a major earthquake doesn't mean it's something we enjoy. Shit's scary when it comes down to it. The 89 quake in SF and the 88 Northridge quake were the only ones I have been in but that's seriously enough to put me off earthquakes for the rest of my life, despite all the "not strong enough to get me out of bed" jokes that get passed around.
And Khrath.. they've been saying that as long as I can remember. We aren't any more likely to have a major earthquake now than we were back in '88. "The Big One" has been a doomsday looming on the horizon since I was 8.
-Nah- |
Here here! The quake in '89 knocked my ass to the ground 80 miles north, I can imagine how neat it was farther south. That freeway collapsed killing so many people, I mean it crushed them like you might crush an aluminum can.
I'm really not disappointed when there is little to no earthquake activity. |
Booooring!
Seriously, I don't want anyone to get hurt, I just want to have a good story to tell when I go back home and maybe for me to be almost killed but escape and save a family of some endangered species or something. It's no fun to go back and have people ask me "are the earthquakes bad?" and all I've got is "Well one time I thought I felt my chair wiggle a little bit and thought "I wonder if that was an earthquake" and then I turned on the TV and it turned out that it was!" I need a story with stuff like "and it missed my head by less than 2 inches!" or "and the car rolled over 11 times! or "and that was when the house broke in half".
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merdocc
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ATM Banana
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Posted: 04/15/04 - 16:49 Post subject:
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yeah, i remember the one in 92, my brother was like "the house is gonna collapse!!! omigawd!!!
and i was like, hod on lemme get my slippers, just 20 more seconds till i'll get the slippers on...
i walk outside to see the ground shaking like hell and people like going "wtf eh?"
like a week later we noticed a crack in the ceiling and a few shingles fell off the roof.
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Regan
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Posted: 04/15/04 - 17:08 Post subject:
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Move to miami, hurricanes are more fun cause you get the advanced warning and all, so you can be prepared with heavy raincoat and beachchair nailed to concreat slab with seatbelts to watch all the action from
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Clevinger
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Posted: 04/15/04 - 17:45 Post subject:
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| Occulis wrote: | | We get floods. Very amusing! I love seeing roofs ripped off buildings while some d*****t thinks his jacked-up 4wheeler is going to make it though ten feet of floodwater. |
haha yes!
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GruntingCod
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Silvermouse
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Posted: 04/15/04 - 19:27 Post subject:
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| Luturb wrote: | | Silvermouse wrote: | | Nahualli wrote: | Dude.. shut up. Just because you haven't lived through a major earthquake doesn't mean it's something we enjoy. Shit's scary when it comes down to it. The 89 quake in SF and the 88 Northridge quake were the only ones I have been in but that's seriously enough to put me off earthquakes for the rest of my life, despite all the "not strong enough to get me out of bed" jokes that get passed around.
And Khrath.. they've been saying that as long as I can remember. We aren't any more likely to have a major earthquake now than we were back in '88. "The Big One" has been a doomsday looming on the horizon since I was 8.
-Nah- |
Here here! The quake in '89 knocked my ass to the ground 80 miles north, I can imagine how neat it was farther south. That freeway collapsed killing so many people, I mean it crushed them like you might crush an aluminum can.
I'm really not disappointed when there is little to no earthquake activity. |
Booooring!
Seriously, I don't want anyone to get hurt, I just want to have a good story to tell when I go back home and maybe for me to be almost killed but escape and save a family of some endangered species or something. It's no fun to go back and have people ask me "are the earthquakes bad?" and all I've got is "Well one time I thought I felt my chair wiggle a little bit and thought "I wonder if that was an earthquake" and then I turned on the TV and it turned out that it was!" I need a story with stuff like "and it missed my head by less than 2 inches!" or "and the car rolled over 11 times! or "and that was when the house broke in half". |
Brutul, nothing is less interesting than a natural disaster story, except perhaps a story about a dream you had. Believe me, I've heard many of these stories, and I invariably excuse myself in the middle to use the restroom if I can!
Again, it's best that these stories remain untold. Try to refrain from telling them...for justice!
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Posted: 04/15/04 - 20:09 Post subject:
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I bet driving down the freeway at 75 mph and then getting shaken by an earth quake is pretty scary.
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Xion
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Posted: 04/15/04 - 20:52 Post subject:
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| lauren000 wrote: | | I bet driving down the freeway at 75 mph and then getting shaken by an earth quake is pretty scary. |
what if you launched off a land wave? 0_o
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Verdeloth
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Posted: 04/16/04 - 00:14 Post subject:
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| ATM Banana wrote: | yeah, i remember the one in 92, my brother was like "the house is gonna collapse!!! omigawd!!!
and i was like, hod on lemme get my slippers, just 20 more seconds till i'll get the slippers on...
i walk outside to see the ground shaking like hell and people like going "wtf eh?"
like a week later we noticed a crack in the ceiling and a few shingles fell off the roof. |
wasn't the northridge quake in january 94, thats the one i remember, my whole family got scared as hell. my uncle's house was all in shambles afterward, it
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Paden
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Posted: 04/16/04 - 00:22 Post subject:
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| Khrath wrote: | | I WANNA SEE THE GROUND GIVE WAY, I WANNA WATCH IT ALL GO DOWN |
Can I hold your hand and watch the glimmer in your eyes as we both look apon the sinking metropolis.
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Tiluvas
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Posted: 04/16/04 - 16:55 Post subject:
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| Silvermouse wrote: | Brutul, nothing is less interesting than a natural disaster story, except perhaps a story about a dream you had. Believe me, I've heard many of these stories, and I invariably excuse myself in the middle to use the restroom if I can!
Again, it's best that these stories remain untold. Try to refrain from telling them...for justice! |
Remember last weekend when I was resting my head on your naked chest and we were reminiscing about the days back in Felwithe B? I started telling you about how I had a dream that one day we could both open up a store, selling High Elven ankle warmers. In this dream after many years of hard work and toil, we were able to make it big, once we started exporting to Kelethin, and able to move into a nice cozy condo in Felwithe A.
You weren't complaining about my dream stories back then, as you gently rubbed my head and licked my hair.
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Silvermouse
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Posted: 04/16/04 - 17:35 Post subject:
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| Tiluvas wrote: | | Silvermouse wrote: | Brutul, nothing is less interesting than a natural disaster story, except perhaps a story about a dream you had. Believe me, I've heard many of these stories, and I invariably excuse myself in the middle to use the restroom if I can!
Again, it's best that these stories remain untold. Try to refrain from telling them...for justice! |
Remember last weekend when I was resting my head on your naked chest and we were reminiscing about the days back in Felwithe B? I started telling you about how I had a dream that one day we could both open up a store, selling High Elven ankle warmers. In this dream after many years of hard work and toil, we were able to make it big, once we started exporting to Kelethin, and able to move into a nice cozy condo in Felwithe A.
You weren't complaining about my dream stories back then, as you gently rubbed my head and licked my hair. |
I didn't complain because I didn't want to hurt your feelings. Also, I was still trying to make up for that summer I spent cheating on you...on my knees...blowing Kane Bayle (the evil SK version). Sometimes, he didn't want head, and instead I would lick his smooth, supple ass while he f****d a w***e.
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