Was doing my usual Sunday routine of drinking beer and flipping through games, when the ground started shaking and the room started to rumble. It lasted for about 30 seconds, I walked outside and some dipshtein in a Raiders hat (Go figure) says "Did you feel that". I flip to the local stations and sure enough there was a 4.6 quake near San Clememte island (around 2:00). Living here for 9 years and that was my first one, what an experience.
Worst feeling.
EVER.
The minute it ended when I felt my first one, I was on the phone with my parents telling them I wanted to come home. Its not normal to feel your HOUSE move underneath your feet.
Quote from: PhillyGirl on October 16, 2005, 09:49:24 PM
Worst feeling.
EVER.
The minute it ended when I felt my first one, I was on the phone with my parents telling them I wanted to come home. Its not normal to feel your HOUSE move underneath your feet.
Really? I thought it was pretty cool ;D
Quote from: PhillyGirl on October 16, 2005, 09:49:24 PM
Its not normal to feel your HOUSE move underneath your feet.
It is, but only if you've got a great stereo.
Quote from: SD_Eagle on October 16, 2005, 09:50:58 PM
Quote from: PhillyGirl on October 16, 2005, 09:49:24 PM
Worst feeling.
EVER.
The minute it ended when I felt my first one, I was on the phone with my parents telling them I wanted to come home. Its not normal to feel your HOUSE move underneath your feet.
Really? I thought it was pretty cool ;D
Explains a lot.
Quote from: PhillyGirl on October 16, 2005, 09:51:17 PM
Quote from: SD_Eagle on October 16, 2005, 09:50:58 PM
Quote from: PhillyGirl on October 16, 2005, 09:49:24 PM
Worst feeling.
EVER.
The minute it ended when I felt my first one, I was on the phone with my parents telling them I wanted to come home. Its not normal to feel your HOUSE move underneath your feet.
Really? I thought it was pretty cool ;D
Explains a lot.
Believe it or not ships tend to move a lot so the feeling isn't as odd as you'd think.
Wait, things in water move around? Get outta here.
Quote from: General_Failure on October 16, 2005, 09:54:27 PM
Wait, things in water move around? Get outta here.
Shocking, I know
Well now I don't know what to think. I'm stunned.
Quote from: PhillyGirl on October 16, 2005, 09:49:24 PM
Its not normal to feel your HOUSE move underneath your feet.
It is if you live in a trailer or if I'm shagging someone in the next room. You know what they say; "If the trailer's a rockin' don't come a knockin." ;D
Or if T-hawk's mom is making a midnight run to the fridge.
I was in SF during the 89' quake. In a department store on Market St. I was more freaked out by everyone's reaction out on the street. You would think people in the Bay Area would be used to it but the look on people's faces was like "this ain't right". Needless to say it was quite an adventure the next couple of days witnessing everything first hand, like the marina district. Finally got back home a few days later once the airport reopened.
Quote from: PhillyGirl on October 16, 2005, 09:49:24 PM
Worst feeling.
EVER.
The minute it ended when I felt my first one, I was on the phone with my parents telling them I wanted to come home. Its not normal to feel your HOUSE move underneath your feet.
What a Hoyda.
Quote from: Don Ho on October 17, 2005, 04:26:28 AM
I was in SF during the 89' quake. In a department store on Market St. I was more freaked out by everyone's reaction out on the street. You would think people in the Bay Area would be used to it but the look on people's faces was like "this ain't right".
You're right about that. The bad part of most earthquakes is that someone panicking frantically wakes you, no disturbs your sleep and scares you and makes you think something is wrong and all you hear is 'earthquake'. They wake you up when you could have slept right through most of them. Go back to sleep.
Fine, I'm a Hoyda.
But you and every idiot out there that KNOWS you could, one day, no longer be attached to the rest of the country..yet STILL live there and laugh off earthquakes....you're all dumb as farg.
Quote from: PhillyGirl on October 17, 2005, 07:27:35 AM
Fine, I'm a Hoyda.
But you and every idiot out there that KNOWS you could, one day, no longer be attached to the rest of the country..yet STILL live there and laugh off earthquakes....you're all dumb as farg.
And those of you that are dumb as farg to think that a shift in the plates drastic enough to detach half of california from the continental U.S. can happen in one serving...go ahead, keep sounding dumb as farg. I believe a meteor hitting the planet earth would be less drastic.
*Note, for those of you that aren't experts in plate tectonics or aren't seismologist such as PG...the breaking up of california from the rest of you will take somewhere around one to three million years.
So, anything else Hoyda?
Chastising people for living in a place like california because there is an astronomically small chance that it could be separated from the mainland is maybe the most retarded and paranoid thinking I've ever heard of.
We should all live underground because one day something might fall out of the sky and kill us!
Planes crash all the time and cars crash even MORE often. We should walk everywhere. Personally, I'm walking to Tahiti for my next vacation.
Quote from: rjs246 on October 17, 2005, 01:28:17 PMPersonally, I'm walking to Tahiti for my next vacation.
I'd walk too because of all the danger...but I heard nothing beats floating in a rubber tire to Tahiti.
Quote from: PhillyGirl on October 17, 2005, 07:27:35 AM
Fine, I'm a Hoyda.
But you and every idiot out there that KNOWS you could, one day, no longer be attached to the rest of the country..yet STILL live there and laugh off earthquakes....you're all dumb as farg.
everyone knows nothing.
california "falling into the ocean" is pretty simply very untrue (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/faq/myths.html)
QuoteQ:Will California eventually fall off into the ocean?
A: No. The San Andreas Fault System, which crosses California from the Salton Sea in the south to Cape Mendocino in the north, is the boundary between the Pacific Plate and North American Plate. The Pacific Plate is moving in northwest with respect to the North American Plate at approximately 46 millimeters per year (the rate your fingernails grow). The strike-slip earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault are a result of this plate motion. The plates are moving horizontally past one another, so California is not going to fall into the ocean. However, Los Angeles and San Francisco will one day be adjacent to one another! For further information, see: "Earthquakes, Megaquakes, and the Movies"
(this part is near the bottom)
LMFAO....as if I didn't already KNOW that?
Sarcasm. Funny how I'm crucified for not knowing it when I see it and all of you fall all over yourselves going out of your way to prove wrong something that was meant in jest.
californians are farging morons, doesn't matter if they break loose from the country or not.
PG, earthquakes are Cali's way of telling you to stay the hell out. We have '4 seasons' too:
Flood, Fire, Smog, Eartquake. Take that foliage.
Quote from: PhillyGirl on October 17, 2005, 01:41:13 PM
Sarcasm. Funny how I'm crucified for not knowing it when I see it and all of you fall all over yourselves going out of your way to prove wrong something that was meant in jest.
You seem to forget that you suck at sarcasm.
Quote from: PhillyGirl on October 17, 2005, 01:41:13 PM
LMFAO....as if I didn't already KNOW that?
Sarcasm. Funny how I'm crucified for not knowing it when I see it and all of you fall all over yourselves going out of your way to prove wrong something that was meant in jest.
californians are farging morons, doesn't matter if they break loose from the country or not.
didnt look very sarcastic to me...nor the other 50 times you've said that either.
by the way, how was the bolded comment any different than what brett favre's wife said about philly fans?
i'm not from california. only been there once. but you're sure painting with a broad brush.
Quote from: PhillyGirl on October 17, 2005, 07:27:35 AM
Fine, I'm a Hoyda.
But you and every idiot out there that KNOWS you could, one day, no longer be attached to the rest of the country..yet STILL live there and laugh off earthquakes....you're all dumb as farg.
I'm trying to find anything here that sounds the slightest bit sarcastic.
Remember, I communicate in sarcasm. It is my native tongue. Nothing here resembles it.
rjs...I think you will find the asian porn before you find sarcasm in PG's posts. Good luck either way and let me know.
I can only imagine the arguments at home.
PG: "I was being sarcastic".
:-D :-D :-D
When i read the subject to this thread, I can only hear it in a deep redneck tone dialect. "Felt ma first quake tudaay"
Quote from: Wingspan on October 17, 2005, 01:46:28 PM
Quote from: PhillyGirl on October 17, 2005, 01:41:13 PM
LMFAO....as if I didn't already KNOW that?
Sarcasm. Funny how I'm crucified for not knowing it when I see it and all of you fall all over yourselves going out of your way to prove wrong something that was meant in jest.
californians are farging morons, doesn't matter if they break loose from the country or not.
didnt look very sarcastic to me...nor the other 50 times you've said that either.
by the way, how was the bolded comment any different than what brett favre's wife said about philly fans?
i'm not from california. only been there once. but you're sure painting with a broad brush.
Favre's wife never lived in Philadelphia. Her comment was ignorant.
I've lived in California. I'm basing it on my opinion after having lived there for 3 years.
Nice comparison. ::)
Quote from: PhillyGirl on October 17, 2005, 01:57:26 PM
Quote from: Wingspan on October 17, 2005, 01:46:28 PM
Quote from: PhillyGirl on October 17, 2005, 01:41:13 PM
LMFAO....as if I didn't already KNOW that?
Sarcasm. Funny how I'm crucified for not knowing it when I see it and all of you fall all over yourselves going out of your way to prove wrong something that was meant in jest.
californians are farging morons, doesn't matter if they break loose from the country or not.
didnt look very sarcastic to me...nor the other 50 times you've said that either.
by the way, how was the bolded comment any different than what brett favre's wife said about philly fans?
i'm not from california. only been there once. but you're sure painting with a broad brush.
Favre's wife never lived in Philadelphia. Her comment was ignorant.
I've lived in California. I'm basing it on my opinion after having lived there for 3 years.
Nice comparison. ::)
lol...you are kidding right?
well favre's wife has been to philly numerous time i assume, so he comments are very indeed valid, if yours are just because you spent a measly 36 months there.
Quote from: hbionic on October 17, 2005, 01:41:16 PM
PG, earthquakes are Cali's way of telling you to stay the hell out. We have '4 seasons' too:
Flood, Fire, Smog, Eartquake. Take that foliage.
Florida only has two. Hurricane and tourist.