Posted on 02/18/2011 6:04:51 PM PST by dragnet2
Has Michelle Obama been there lately?
WOW, you must have lived in Sylmar.
I was in that earthquake as well.
I remember being out of running water for a week.
And no hot water for a week and a half.
But I’m with you, no tornadoes for me, either.
In fact, I remember people talking about other areas of the country at that time, they all had some form of “hazard” to live with.
Scientists estimate that the probability of a magnitude 6.0 or larger earthquake occurring in this seismic zone within any 50 year period is 25% to 40%. Such an earthquake could hit the Mississippi Valley at any time.
http://www.cusec.org/earthquake-information/new-madrid-seismic-zone.html
Unlike Hurricanes and twisters, with an earthquake at least your home and belonging are not blown into the next county...
Well, that’s not very encouraging...
Yeah I know. I’m only posting this next link for the map. There is a calendar on the right side of this site. Scroll down til you see the calendar and you will see the map. I’ve seen a couple of different maps that show very similar changes. What with the activity at New Madrid it makes you wonder.
http://www.stevedrinkard.com/archives/246
No, I was in Alhambra, and I'm glad I wasn't any closer to Sylmar! I woke up to the bed moving across the room. I jumped up and ran for a doorway. It was the first time I ever felt the earth rolling under me, like being on a boat at sea. It's very disconcerting when the ground doesn't seem like a solid.
Well, I remember as well how the earth rolled and jerked and the sound like a roar before it hit.
I was in Sylmar. I will never forget it.
And the shock of how that ground moved, something I had spent all my life thinking was sound, forever changed that day. Yes, indeed it did.
I'm glad I wasn't that close, but even so, I have also never forgotten it. I remember transformers blowing all over the place which only made it spookier. And even though we were pretty sure it was an earthquake, we had no confirmation for hours. We didn't have a battery operated radio at that time and no TV and cell phones were not even an option then and Al Gore hadn't invented the Internet yet ;-). We couldn't contact family to see if they were OK. For all we knew, we could have been nuked.
We had a small transistor radio. LOL, they had NO IDEA what had just happened. No news, no information, just, Hey we just had a little rumble, no big deal. I think it was after that earthquake that the gov put in the system to tell people in the news rooms, how big and where an earthquake was, when it happens.
Where I was, people thought we were being bombed. I knew it was an earthquake because I had recently been reading about the San Francisco earthquake in the early 1900’s.
My mom had been going to CSUN at the time. Only half the class showed up, and some had tests that day. Nobody knew how bad it had been.
So long ago now, eh?
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