Posted on 01/17/2005 3:45:05 AM PST by bd476
BAH!
and
"...You didn't by chance drop a piece of the tinfoil from your hat into the microwave when you were heating up the cup of tea did you?? lol..."
Actually, no, just the silver spoon. < /just kidding >
How does one explain the cats meowing/howling in the middle of the night, a nearly brand new microwave sending an arc out the back, or my sink suddenly plugging up all by itself?
Besides I always thought contrails were made by bored fighter pilots in training.
Goes faster every year. (as I gaze at my bottle of geritol)
Do you recall the quake which knocked down the walls of the parking garage at Cal State Northridge? I believe that was during the Landers quake, although it is possible that it happened during the Northridge quake.
There was a female student just getting out of her car when the walls fell on her. Very sad.
Please post it here when you find it. Thanks!
One would have to wonder how a sink would suddenly plug itself up.
Methinks you have a ghost. Yes, an aberration floating around trying to get you to turn off Mr. Bell. They sense bad karma and want to warn you. yep, thats my explanation and I am sticking to it.
I have a solution for cat's meowing and howling here. I send my fearless cat hunters out (Maggie the Welsch Corgi and Kelly the Siberian Husky). Neither has scored a kill, but they do chase them away quite well.
ROFL!
Yeah...I remember it....On Duarte Road in San Gabriel at the time. The apartment building was dancing to rock and roll....
Perhaps tumbled is inaccurate, more like skidded feet first. I sustained no real injuries. But I do remember how our neighborhood (in the Miracle Mile) rallied together and the Widow next door spent three days with us. She had worked at Paramount and had a massive video collection, so it was a fair bargain!
They go bonkers before and during quakes.
A ghost, eh? Hmm. Assuming your nick is accurate, do you believe in ghosts? I am in the undecided category leaning heavily into the doubt column but only because I have not seen one.
And, aw gee thanks for mentioning karmic retribution. I like Art Bell - he's like popcorn (or any junk food) for the mind - fun, silly, interesting, and much better than going to a scary movie.
But because you had to bring up karma I have turned off the radio. :P
Get those two puppies of yours on a leash. :)
Yes, it was the Northridge quake which tumbled down that parking garage. There was also an apartment building near campus that went from 3 stories high to 2. The first floor was completely smashed. Several people died in there, including students.
I was going to school there then and many buildings on campus were damaged. They had to bring in trailers and other temporary structures to hold classes in. Spring semester was a few weeks delayed in starting, and so was my graduation. I thought for sure that they'd close the campus down for several months and that I wouldn't be able to graduate until then end of fall! Amazing, actually, that they pulled it off so soon!
I had recently moved there from Philadelphia so I was in total shock ;-)
The strange part was I woke up about 10 minutes before it started. When the shaking started, the bed was rolling around the room like in the Wizard of Oz... I saw the transformers sparking out the window and a steady sound of breaking glass. Pretty crazy.
The oddest was I worked in downtown LA on the 22nd floor in a building on Olive St... the aftershocks were quite an experience up there.
The Sylmar Quake was no fun either. We lived in Granada Hills, near Van Norman Dam. They thought it would break so everyone was told to leave their homes that night. Our family stayed in our house because we were to the west off Rinaldi Blvd. high enough so water would'nt get to it. But it was very strange...No power and helicopters flying over all night long....a lot of damage to the house.
That rates a gold medal in the "every cloud has a silver lining" category! Nice of you to be so neighborly.
I hear pets can tell when an earthquake is going to happen. Stand near the door jam when possible and prepare to make a break for it. Glad I don't have to worry about earthquakes - Whew! I am so lucky. All I have to worry about is the 600 foot wall of water (Tsunami) that they keep telling us will happen here on the east coast.
I know how to swim.
Goes good with denture adhesive.
The stores were closed, we were told not to drink the water, so a friend in Santa Clarita brought down cases of beer bottles filled with the strangest tasting water which I unfortunately drank.
LOL!
I do recall hanging onto both sides of my bed, praying that I wouldn't get tossed out. When the shaking stopped I heard my next door neighbor scream "Gas leak! Gas leak! Everybody out! The building's going to blow! Get out! Get out!"
He later apologized and said that the quake had awakened him from a strange dream.
What's really hard to imagine is that you returned to your job on the 22nd floor in a building on Olive St.
"What were you... nuts?!"
I remember it well. We got a hard, hard shake all the way in Whittier/La Mirada. I recall a couple of pretty good aftershocks as well. The 1971 Sylmar quake still remains the Queen Mother of shakers for me though...whew...
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