Jazzdog Posted April 17, 2004 Report Posted April 17, 2004 Where were you at 5:04 PM on October 17, 1989? Been feeling all those little swarms in Berkeley, Moraga, Hayward, etc. that have happened lately? I'm less than three miles down the hill from the Hayward fault sitting on good old Oakland sand. Rock and roll, baby. I was driving in my car and all of a sudden I feel like I am on a LSD trip and my car is wobbling...I stop and get out of the car and think...shit I have a flat!! I didn't see anything and shrugged it off and went home. When I got back it was all over the news. No, I don't feel anything less than a 6.0 these days. I dont know how far exactly I am from a fault line, but I live in CalEfornia so I figgure it's gotta be close! Quote
Indestructible! Posted April 17, 2004 Report Posted April 17, 2004 Hey, Hey, HEY!!! NO baiting earthquakes, ya hear! I teach here at Cal State Northridge, which was pretty much leveled in the 1994 Northridge quake... 57 people in the surrounding community died... the campus was a complete mess... thankfully the quake occurred early in the morning and school was not in session, otherwise it could've been real nasty around here. It's amazing what 10 years can do though... the FEMA money has pretty much built us a brand new campus, and the place looks great! Oh yeah, I don't even notice any of those tremors we constantly get either (I sleep right through 'em)... but I'd rather not feel another 6.7, if you know what I mean! Cheers, Shane And, oh yes..... HAIL ATLANTIS!!!! Quote
RDK Posted April 17, 2004 Report Posted April 17, 2004 Hey Shane, with the moniker "Indestructible," what do you have to worry about anyway? Seriously, I was living in Van Nuys during the Northridge quake so I know exactly what you mean! Quote
RainyDay Posted April 17, 2004 Report Posted April 17, 2004 Where were you at 5:04 PM on October 17, 1989? Been feeling all those little swarms in Berkeley, Moraga, Hayward, etc. that have happened lately? I'm less than three miles down the hill from the Hayward fault sitting on good old Oakland sand. Rock and roll, baby. I was driving in my car and all of a sudden I feel like I am on a LSD trip and my car is wobbling...I stop and get out of the car and think...shit I have a flat!! I didn't see anything and shrugged it off and went home. When I got back it was all over the news. No, I don't feel anything less than a 6.0 these days. I dont know how far exactly I am from a fault line, but I live in CalEfornia so I figgure it's gotta be close! That thing about the flat tire is sort of amusing. A while back, a former co-worker was driving on the freeway and thought she had a flat tire. She pulled over and noticed all these other people pulled over looking at their tires. Then she found out there had been an earthquake. Where you live has a lot to do with what you feel. Some years ago, there was a 4.0 in San Ramon or Danville, somewhere out there. The epicenter was under a golf clubhouse. It pulled the clubhouse apart and a house nearby had significant damage. Quote
Jazzmoose Posted April 17, 2004 Report Posted April 17, 2004 I was driving in my car and all of a sudden I feel like I am on a LSD trip and my car is wobbling... That happened to me once. Except it was in Illinois back in the late 70s. And it wasn't an earthquake. Sometimes the first hunch is the best... Quote
Noj Posted April 17, 2004 Report Posted April 17, 2004 I've lived in Burbank my whole life, so I've been in a couple good-sized ones. The Northridge quake was the biggest one I've been in--the earth shook violently and for sustained amount of time, changing in intensity several times. It was then followed by powerful, rolling aftershocks throughtout the day. The shaking isn't as scary as the noise. The day that followed one quake had some of the strangest weather--Really hot all of a sudden, then windy, then a freak storm with thunder and lightning that lasted a half hour, then hot again... Quote
RainyDay Posted April 17, 2004 Report Posted April 17, 2004 The noise is supernatural, isn't it? Even the little quakes have that sound of a million slamming doors or something. I've lived with quakes my whole life, even in the Pacific Northwest when I was a kid. Hate the things. I was at work when the Paso Robles quake hit last year and we felt it in SF. Everyone got disoriented from the swaying. When you don't realize the floor is moving, you think you are having dizzy spells. Kind of like the mass flat tire phenomenom on the freeway. Just another way for nature to remind us all who is really in charge. Not us. Quote
maren Posted April 17, 2004 Report Posted April 17, 2004 (edited) The noise is supernatural, isn't it? Even the teeny tremors we have in the Northeast can be incredibly noisy. I remember one morning here in NYC about 4 years ago -- I was awakened at 6 AM by what sounded like a car falling on the roof of our building, and a slight shake (much less than if a car really HAD dropped out of the sky!). Since nothing followed, and I couldn't see anything, and cars slam into things all the time around here, I slept for another hour, then heard on the radio that a 2-point-something tremor had occurred (epicenter in Brooklyn, I think?). Edited April 17, 2004 by maren Quote
Edward Posted April 17, 2004 Report Posted April 17, 2004 (edited) I was going to school at UCLA and living in Santa Monica when the '94 Northridge quake hit. Actually, I woke up about a minute before the quake hit because I had to take a leak (or perhaps I woke up for some other reason and realized that I had to use the bathroom). Fortunately, I did not get started before the quake began. I automatically place myself under the nearest doorway when I feel an earthquake start rumbling. I feel sorry (and concerned) about those not accustomed to quakes. My roomate at the time of the Northridge quake was a med student from Houston, and I yelled at him repeatedly to get under his bedroom doorway, but to no avail. Edited April 17, 2004 by Edward Quote
RDK Posted April 17, 2004 Report Posted April 17, 2004 The funniest story I ever heard about the Northridge quake happened to a friend of my wife. He had, just days before, gotten into a skiing accident and broke a leg (or something similar). So he was heavily medicated to ensure that he get some rest and sleep through the night. Well, he did sleep through the night - and through the quake - so when he woke up the next morning he couldn't at first understand why his apartment had been completely thrashed all around him... I've been through a lot of quakes since I moved to SoCal 25 years ago (from the relatively stable New York), but all those little 3s and 4s and even occassional 5s that I experienced over the years (and pretty much learned to shrug off) were nothing compared to the Northridge quake. You tend to take such things for granted until you experience a "big one" - and the ironic thing, of course, is that Northridge wasn't really "that big" in the overall scheme of things... Quote
Shrdlu Posted April 17, 2004 Report Posted April 17, 2004 This will be at the start of a horrible seven year period known as the Tribulation period, with a dictator of the whole world worse than Adolf himself. was he in the bible ? didn't people rant about the same thing back then? the only thing I would like is for that old trumpet to resound pretty soon. I hope that means brownie's coming back. or lee. Or maybe even king louis. No, Adolf is not in the scriptures of course. He is not THE Antichrist (the real one will be far worse), but he is a type of the Antichrist. The characterstic of the Antichrist, and all types of him, is persecution of the Jews. In the Bible, there are 18 (6+6+6) types of the Antichrist, starting with Cain, who killed Abel. Others are Nimrod, Laban (Jacob's uncle), Solomon (after a good early spell) and, of course, Judas Iscariot. Quote
Shrdlu Posted April 17, 2004 Report Posted April 17, 2004 That old trumpet is going to sound pretty soon, and all believers will suddenly vanish. That's certainly something to look forward to... I know what you mean, but actually, it won't be anything to look forward to at all. Crack open Revelation (and a lot of Old Testament prophecies that deal with the Tribulation Period of 7 years) and read about the horrible catastrophies that will take place, and you won't want to go through that period at all. Examples: a quarter of the earth's population die in one day (gotta be a nuclear war), and then another quarter die on another day. To be saved before the trumpet sounds is a great advantage, because all believers are taken out of this world before the Tribulation starts, to be with the Lord. The Rapture is clearly about to happen at any time. Recommended reading: "Left Behind", by Tim La Haye and Jerry B. Jenkins, published recently by Zondervan. There are 6 books in this series, and millions of copies have been sold. These are very well written novels, not sermons or similar. One of the main characters is an airline pilot whose wife and son get raptured out (his plane also loses about 50 passengers while flying from Chicago to London). He realizes what has happened, but then has to live through the Tribulation Period, in which the two options are: get saved and then be executed by the forces of the Antichrist, or take the mark of the Beast and then go to hell. Not a choice that I'd like to have to make, though those executed by the Beast's forces because they have gotten saved still go to heaven. It's much easier in the present "Church age", when the believer leaves this world either by the rapture, or by natural death, unless in a part of the world where believers are killed by the local government. Quote
chris olivarez Posted April 18, 2004 Report Posted April 18, 2004 I lived on and off in California over the years and experienced my fair share of earthquakes the biggest was the 7.1 that hit LA and killed some people. The ones that I remembered were a 6.2 and 6.0 that occured on consecutive days when I was living in the Imperial Valley. The first one hit on a Monday night and it made for a rather busy night at the radio station that I was working for at the time. That night after things settled down I went home and went to bed but I made sure I could leave immediately because I had a feeling we weren't done and in the early morning hours my hunch was proven correct because the next one hit and in short order I grabbed my car keys and was out the door and on my way to work. It was rather spooky driving to work that morning because the power was out and it was pitch black. On my way to work I was the only one on the road,everybody else was pulled over and that was a very uneasy feeling. Once the lights came on the phones started ringing off the hook and all hell broke loose. In an ironic sidelight to that morning are sign on guy went on the air and made a quip to the extent that it felt like earthquake weather .Shortly after he made that remark the second earthquake hit and he was nailed by a big,solid wooden rack that held our recorded commercials and he got coldcocked. Fortunately he was not seriously hurt. Earthquakes are just one more reason I don't miss California. Quote
Dr. Rat Posted April 18, 2004 Report Posted April 18, 2004 That old trumpet is going to sound pretty soon, and all believers will suddenly vanish. Who gets their record collections? --eric Quote
JSngry Posted April 18, 2004 Report Posted April 18, 2004 Dusty Groove, of course. The BASTARDS! Quote
BruceH Posted April 18, 2004 Report Posted April 18, 2004 That old trumpet is going to sound pretty soon, and all believers will suddenly vanish. That's certainly something to look forward to... Quote
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