Slight Earthquake in Seattle

To: Citizen Soldier

Is smoke starting to come out of any of the mountains?

21 posted on 01/16/2004 4:32:29 AM PST by Edmund Burke

We're all gonna DIE!!!!

OK, maybe not........

22 posted on 01/16/2004 5:26:04 AM PST by SW6906

"Sleepless in Seattle"?

23 posted on 01/16/2004 6:06:24 AM PST by sheik yerbouty

LOL! Originally from Ohio, so I had never been in a tremblor. The first quake I rode out in Seattle, I thought my somewhat overweight cat had jumped onto the couch I was on! It wasn't till I saw the blind pulls swaying that I realized...Hey! She's not THAT HEAVY!;-D

24 posted on 01/16/2004 6:08:43 AM PST by sleavelessinseattle (Militant Islam is a political movement NOT a religious one...What does it take to wake up the media?)

To: jennyp; Libertina

Libertina, consider yourself Pinged!

25 posted on 01/16/2004 7:10:55 AM PST by Issaquahking (U.N., greenies, etc. battling against the U.S. and Constitution one freedom at a time. Fight Back !)

When I was living in San Francisco, I heard what someone told me was a true story about an earthquake in Seattle. When it started rumbling, the people in an office looked around in panic - not knowing what to do. A guy suddenly yelled out "I'm from San Francisco! We stand in doorways!!" Another guy immediately yelled out "I'm from Houston! Where do we stand??!!"

26 posted on 01/16/2004 7:52:51 AM PST by ctonious

It's just Mt Rainier burping. I'm sure that she'll give you thirty minutes warning before she blows her top.

27 posted on 01/16/2004 7:57:07 AM PST by Deguello

To: Citizen Soldier

Caller from Maple Valley felt two jolts that woke her up.

Really? One Jolt Cola usually does the trick for me.

28 posted on 01/16/2004 11:17:24 AM PST by theDentist (Boston: So much Liberty, you can buy a Politician already owned by someone else.)

To: Junior_G; jennyp

I was awake in Burien last night. Didn't feel a thing.

29 posted on 01/16/2004 3:32:01 PM PST by irishtenor (If animals weren't meant to be eaten, why did God make them out of meat?)

To: Issaquahking

Hi Issaquah King! I felt something runble today but I thought it was just a hot pepper from my Thai food! ;)

30 posted on 01/16/2004 4:01:43 PM PST by Libertina (CPAC - Conservative Political Action Conference - Jan 22-24, DC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f)

There was just now a 5.7 earthquake at the North Pole.

31 posted on 01/19/2004 11:07:48 AM PST by RightWhale (Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)

I really like that whole "Stand in a doorway" story. I was in the Loma Prieta quake of '89. Had a really good view out the window of an office I was standing in. The ground was rolling around like it had turned into a thick liquid. I saw waves rolling down the street that looked like waves rolling across the ocean. The distance from the top of the waves to the bottom of the waves must have been at least two feet.

At the time I was thinking "gotta get under a desk or in a doorway". Just one problem, the ground was shaking so hard it took everything in me just to keep from being flung about the office. I was just rooted to the ground, kinda like hanging on to a surfboard, "land surfing". If I had even tried to take a step in any direction I would have ended up falling down, hard.

So anyway, that whole "get in a doorway or under a desk" story is just one of those things to make you feel better about having a chance in a big quake, IMHO. If it's a bad enough quake to bring a building down, chances are that you aren't going to be doing much moving about, you're going to be doing everything you can do just to keep from being bounced around like a ping-pong ball.

32 posted on 01/19/2004 11:15:59 AM PST by Elliott Jackalope (We send our kids to Iraq to fight for them, and they send our jobs to India. Now THAT'S gratitude!)

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