Atlanta Shaking?

ME! | Self

[oceanperch]

Even though it's 3a.m. in the morning yeah ok.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!

[LowOiL]

Power outages reported.

[2nd Amendment]

Yeh, Yeh, Yeh, I felt a 5.0 in Helena MT once. This was certainly disconcerting ,though. hounds started barking and the birds went nuts. I'm getting me a shirt "I Survived the Great Quake of '03"

[NewLand]

Here are some "official" reports in from citizens in NW GA and NE AL, closest to the epicenter of the quake:

"It knocked my car right off the blocks!"
"The refrigerator on my porch got knocked over!"
"My grits were jigglin'!"
"I went and got my gun right away"

:-)

[Renegade]

Must be all the Confederate soldiers turning over in their graves because you axed the Stars and Bars on the Georgia state flag..

[FreedomPoster]

LOL!

[AntiGuv]

Make that late autumn '99 on Moscow - in Oct or Nov - that was after the Turkey/Greece quakes. I was travelling a lot back then due to my work.

[hmmmmm]

If only the teachers here in the middle of the country knew what they were missing, the truly visible "offenses" they could have taught.

I remember, even back then, wishing I had the opportunity for a field trip to Washington that other classes had.

[error99]

Hi, Backhoe!
It woke me (and Mrs. error99)up right at 5:00 a.m.
It was not anything major, it was more surprising than anything else.
It took a few seconds to even realize what was going on.
The bed was shaking, kind of like when someone climbs in or out.
All of the pull-handles on the bed room furniture were rattling.
I was (from slumber) trying to figure what was going on.
I got out of bed and stood up, and the floor was shaking slightly - kind of like a slight bouncing up and down.
I was on the 3rd floor of a wood-framed structure.
It is built with long wooden trusses.
There is quite a bit of 'bounce' built in.
It was most like what happens when someone runs through the house.
We did not 'hear' any roar or anything like that.
Two kids are home and they both slept through it.
Dogs and cat did not seem to care, either
(except for wondering why I was up and did that mean it was time to eat?).
The whole thing lasted maybe 30 seconds - hard to tell for sure.
Quite a novelty event.
Local news does not report any damage or injury or anything like that.
Quake was on the Alabama Georgia line, something like maybe 75 miles south of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Thats maybe 100 or so miles away from me.

[FreedomPoster]

Some GA FReeper pings, in case it didn't wake you. Sorry if you've already been on the thread.

[2nd Amendment]

"It knocked momma's spittoon plum off the ironing board"

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Thanks for the link to this thread.

Funny story..... Our 18 yr old son was sleeping across the hall from his room last night in a guestroom, in our very old antique bed which is, to say the least, shaky. When the quake started he said the bed shook so bad it woke him up and as he woke up he was having a dream that his bed was "possesed" (watched too many horror films I guess...LOL). He said he was "afraid to open his eyes in case there was something too horrible to see". On top of that, the old grandfather's clock in the hall outside the room had started chiming, but was shaking so bad it sounded awful and the brass weights that hang down were clanging against each other. Frightening sound, he said.

Needless to say, he was relieved to find that it was really a quake!

[oceanperch]

I went on a three day respite one time had not had a break in two year at that time and I checked into the Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa got to my room opened a bottle of wine, stood at the back door of my room smiling away checking out this water tower outside my door and the rolling started I could not decide to run or not just looked up at that water tower wondering if it was going to fall and the rolling continued I thought figures I take time away to renew myself and I get screwed.

My home was on the market at the time it made it after an inspection.

All was well after the phones went back up on the homefront and I finished my respite. San Fran did not fare so well.

I was seeing the freeways collapse. My home sold I moved to the Oregon Coast and at least once a week they have an article in the paper here about the big one due on the Oregon Coast and what to do for a tsunami.

As I remember growing up in Cali it seems to me that spring is Earthquake season.

[Ima Lurker]

I am so disappointed.....I didn't feel a thing. My husband was awake though and he said the house shook and it lasted for about 10 seconds.

[backhoe]

Hello, error99- I'm certainly glad you & yours are OK... we have a circa 1880's wooden house that's built like a ship- lots of oak beams & dovetail joints & 10-penny iron nails, so it takes a lot to shake it much-- the last quake a year or so ago did rattle the house, but nothing happened this time, except to dog seemed to be having bad dreams...

...and my wife's up early, darnit, so I have to do the househusband thing & cook...

[Glock19C]

Felt it in North Eastern Atlanta suburbs (Gwinnett county). The only reason I realized it was an earthquake is because we've felt one before in Hawaii. I doubt we would have felt it if we had not already been up.

[Principled]

Woke me up too north of Gainesville. Bump for later read

[Rebelbase]

""It knocked my car right off the blocks!"

Good one!

Here's another:

"The Christmas lights outside were just a swayin"

[IrishRainy]

I know it pry sounds weird, but earthquakes are about the ONLY thing I miss about California since we moved to Arizona six years ago. Besides the ocean, I mean.