Another Quake

[Irulan]

we kept ours in a sealed 55 gal drum out in the yard. My hubby is a geologist, have to be earth-aware at our house.

Up here, now we just have to worry about fire storms, ice storms and ash from Mt St Helens or Raineir should they blow again. We get dust storms too but those aren't life threatening for most.

Irulan

[Surlygirl]

[QUOTE=Trek420]caligurl "i'm particularly worried about being on the "wrong" side of the san andreas tomorrow.... "

is that the side that floats out to sea?


Sorry girls I know this is serious, I have family in Californina but I laughed my you know what off. Trek420 you are to funny.

[SadieKate]

Maybe it's all has to do with familiarity but even after being semi-thrown out of bed in the 1971 Sylmar earthquake and growing up with SoCal brush fires, I'll still take them to hurricanes, tornados, floods, etc.

[Trek420]

caligurl "yep... i'll be on the floating to sea side tomorrow!"

just think of the property value on ocean front property!

"we have all our camping gear in one spot in the garage... we do have an eathquake box.. but, sadly, it is out of date.. we really need to go through it!"

ok, none of you are invited to the pitty party so don't even think about crashing it. the thought just occured to me that my ex and I had the complete emergency set up: 3-4 huge boxes by the garage door with everything from soup to nuts including water enough for the neighborhood (rotated like clockwork each 6 months) even and this is most important, a hand operated coffee grinder.

So I'm starting over on all that. But if i run out of ground coffee, I'll be cranky and PK, if you're lurking I know where you live ;-)

"p.s. the camping stuff and earthquake box are on the shelf at the very front of the garage so we can dig through the rubble and get it... it's not outsidw where is really should be!"

What I've read says by the door is ok, just not well inside the house because with damage you might not be able to get all the way inside safely. But I see that Irulan and her live-in-Geologist (Everyobody sing! "it's so nice to have a Geologist in the house") keep theirs out in the yard. Probably wise.

I have a storage shed in the patio. I think that'll be the spot.

[Irulan]

But I see that Irulan and her live-in-Geologist (Everyobody sing! "it's so nice to have a Geologist in the house")

kept, kept. It's been a good 15+ years since we left the earthquake zone.

~I.

[Steph_in_TX]

Geez, I'll take my Texas tornados anyday over all the stuff you deal with. I know someone who refuses to move from CA to TX because she's afraid of a tornado...ummm, hello, there's generally warning of a tornado coming...I figure you need the gift of prophecy and a helicopter to avoid a quake!

Hoping you stay connected to the mainland...Steph

[CorsairMac]

I'll take my state TYVM! we don't have earthquakes or tornadoes here and I've experienced both. The only thing I've got to worry about is fire - and I promise you can see And smell one of those coming! (ok...so we do have dormant volcanoes on the west side of the city but they haven't been active in something like millions of years so I'm not really counting those! )

[bouncybouncy]

...ummm, hello, there's generally warning of a tornado coming

Steph...I agree with that! I grew up in CA and always thinking "OK if an earthquake hits...which way do I run?" or "What would be safest to crawl under?" I also lived in tornado alley for 5 years...can you say basement? Now I am in hurricane alley if you will! I spent DAYS waiting in (what they call) the cone of death I not only had time to prepare with food and supplies but I painted the bathroom, fixed up the spare room, cleaned out 2 closets, and sorted through pictures, all while my fiancee tuned up all the bikes, cleaned out the garage, and caught up on the finances...before any evacuations were issued!!! We were lucky not to be in any of the many final paths...but if we were, we were definitely ready!

Not to say we are any safer or we aren't likely to be hit but I do like the warning! I hope all you in CA are safe and prepared...

[wabisabi]

Well, we did have another one, 6.5, out to sea about 190 miles, and we were all blissfully sound asleep. Mother earth seems to be restless and shifting around out here! It was another horizonal one, which is better than a vertical one, apparently. And, I must echo Yellow, it is raining like crazy, the highest wiper setting kind. I am actually a great lover of rain--I lived in the desert for a long time and am yin (or is it yang?) deficient, so I alway enjoy it, and this area was in a bit of a drought AND it is good for the salmon and the redwoods, and we all have a lot of goretex and camping gear, so it is OK. I guess I could just camp out in my VW van worse come to worse.

[bouncybouncy]

I must add to my last post...

You gals sure do heve better trails (on & off road) than here...I would much rather be in an earthquake sometimes than to deal with some of these crazy drivers

I guess that is why we are in the process of moving to N Carolina! Wonder what kind of natural "occurances" I have to look forward to there?

[RoadRaven]

San Andreas fault
moved its fingers
through the ground
earth divided
plates collided
such an awful sound
(Natalie Merchant from the album TigerLily)

My thoughts are with you all, I live on a fault line too - virtually right on top of where the tectonic plates down here meet.
I HATE earthquakes
Take care
Raven

[snapdragen]

I've read one should plan to be on your own for about 72 hours. Most of us have camping supplies, good idea is to organize them outside your house in case of damage and you can't get in. Have plenty of water, non perishable food. I'm treating this as a reminder to be better prepared than I am.

I have a friend who calls it his bugout kit for when the zombies come. OK - he's a little strange.....

[spazzdog]

I had a little "bugout kit" right after 9/11. I worked in Cambridge, just outside of Boston and that day was pretty bizarre around the office. Located across from a Fed Transportation building, we also were an active pharm. manufacturing facility... plus I was on the IT Disaster Recovery Team. I was one of the last allowed to leave that day (still out by 3 PM), but it was spooky. Noone on the subways, fewer still, by then, on the commuter rail.

I packed a kit in my courier bag and it went everywhere with me for about a month. I still have that dern can of SPAM...

spazz - in New England where there is no rock-n-roll, not even in the ground