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According to the news, I should have felt a small earthquake this morning, but I didn't. The quake was small -- 3.4 -- but I live within the area where it was perceptible to others. At one point, Lizbit came running into my office and peeked outside through the Levelors, so that may have been when it happened.

I am disappointed in myself for missing it.

silvercamaro wrote:According to the news, I should have felt a small earthquake this morning, but I didn't. The quake was small -- 3.4 -- but I live within the area where it was perceptible to others. At one point, Lizbit came running into my office and peeked outside through the Levelors, so that may have been when it happened.

I am disappointed in myself for missing it.

I coulda threw something at the window if I knew you wanted to know when it was happening....

Yep, I saw this one coming too....

Damn I'm good!

They say we start to miss things as we age.




uh oh






did I say that out loud?

silvercamaro wrote:According to the news, I should have felt a small earthquake this morning, but I didn't. The quake was small -- 3.4 -- but I live within the area where it was perceptible to others. At one point, Lizbit came running into my office and peeked outside through the Levelors, so that may have been when it happened.

I am disappointed in myself for missing it.

Does Lizbit have to learn to type just so she can send you an e-mail about this stuff?

MarleysGh0st wrote:
Does Lizbit have to learn to type just so she can send you an e-mail about this stuff?

Lizbit simply could have thought a message into the backs of my eyelids.

If Annie knew there was an earthquake, she would have done that. If she felt the ground shake, however, she probably figured it was something that Lizbit had done. Again.

silvercamaro wrote: I am disappointed in myself for missing it.

I am not disappointed that it was not enough of a jolt for you to have felt it. That means you all were/are safe.

With a quake that small, the line of travel is very important, as is the construction of the building you were in at the time. Also the type of soil the building sits on.

It would be nice if we could choose to experience a small earthquake, just to say we'd been through one. But all else being equal, I'm glad you can still say you haven't.

silvercamaro wrote:According to the news, I should have felt a small earthquake this morning, but I didn't. The quake was small -- 3.4 -- but I live within the area where it was perceptible to others. At one point, Lizbit came running into my office and peeked outside through the Levelors, so that may have been when it happened.

I am disappointed in myself for missing it.

So the earth didn't move for you........

silvercamaro wrote:According to the news, I should have felt a small earthquake this morning, but I didn't. The quake was small -- 3.4 -- but I live within the area where it was perceptible to others. At one point, Lizbit came running into my office and peeked outside through the Levelors, so that may have been when it happened.

I am disappointed in myself for missing it.

Based on my one experience with an earthquake, which occurred early one morning, it was rather like being in a bed with "magic fingers". You know, one of those beds in a run down no tell motel that you feed quarters into to get it to shake, rattle and roll. Umm, not that I have been in one of those. Well, not recently...

By the time I was awake enough to realize I wasn't in one of those beds (again...) it was all over with. Never made it out from under the covers.

If you are going to experience an earthquake that's the way to do it as far as I am concerned!

tanstaafl2 wrote:

silvercamaro wrote:According to the news, I should have felt a small earthquake this morning, but I didn't. The quake was small -- 3.4 -- but I live within the area where it was perceptible to others. At one point, Lizbit came running into my office and peeked outside through the Levelors, so that may have been when it happened.

I am disappointed in myself for missing it.

Based on my one experience with an earthquake, which occurred early one morning, it was rather like being in a bed with "magic fingers". You know, one of those beds in a run down no tell motel that you feed quarters into to get it to shake, rattle and roll. Umm, not that I have been in one of those. Well, not recently...

By the time I was awake enough to realize I wasn't in one of those beds (again...) it was all over with. Never made it out from under the covers.

If you are going to experience an earthquake that's the way to do it as far as I am concerned!

Speaking as someone who was thrown out of bed in '84... I definitely agree.

Second Chance wrote:

tanstaafl2 wrote:

silvercamaro wrote:According to the news, I should have felt a small earthquake this morning, but I didn't. The quake was small -- 3.4 -- but I live within the area where it was perceptible to others. At one point, Lizbit came running into my office and peeked outside through the Levelors, so that may have been when it happened.

I am disappointed in myself for missing it.

Based on my one experience with an earthquake, which occurred early one morning, it was rather like being in a bed with "magic fingers". You know, one of those beds in a run down no tell motel that you feed quarters into to get it to shake, rattle and roll. Umm, not that I have been in one of those. Well, not recently...

By the time I was awake enough to realize I wasn't in one of those beds (again...) it was all over with. Never made it out from under the covers.

If you are going to experience an earthquake that's the way to do it as far as I am concerned!

Speaking as someone who was thrown out of bed in '84... I definitely agree.

You've only been thrown out of bed once in your lifetime?

Wow.

oh





you were talking earthquake, not bad behavior.

peacock2121 wrote:

Second Chance wrote:

tanstaafl2 wrote: Based on my one experience with an earthquake, which occurred early one morning, it was rather like being in a bed with "magic fingers". You know, one of those beds in a run down no tell motel that you feed quarters into to get it to shake, rattle and roll. Umm, not that I have been in one of those. Well, not recently...

By the time I was awake enough to realize I wasn't in one of those beds (again...) it was all over with. Never made it out from under the covers.

If you are going to experience an earthquake that's the way to do it as far as I am concerned!

Speaking as someone who was thrown out of bed in '84... I definitely agree.

You've only been thrown out of bed once in your lifetime?

Wow.

oh





you were talking earthquake, not bad behavior.

And there have been all those cracker eating incidents, too!

I think I will post something on the What Have You Done Today thread about not posting on this thread.

tanstaafl2 wrote:Based on my one experience with an earthquake, which occurred early one morning, it was rather like being in a bed with "magic fingers". You know, one of those beds in a run down no tell motel that you feed quarters into to get it to shake, rattle and roll. Umm, not that I have been in one of those. Well, not recently...

Ed's Travel Tip Of The Day:
Always pack an extension cord. This will enable you to enjoy free, unlimited Magic Fingers pleasure at finer motels across America. I discovered long ago at a Motel 6 that Magic Fingers consists of an electric motor with an eccentric weight affixed to its shaft. The motor is clamped onto the the springs that support the mattress. It has a stubby power cord (maybe a foot long) with a standard plug that would fit in a wall power outlet, if the cord were long enough. Instead, it is connected to an intermediate power cord that goes to the box where you have to put in a quarter to get 15 minutes of Magic Fingers bliss. When your quarter expires, so does the power connection. But if you have your own extension cord, you can bypass the coin box and go all night long, if your body can handle it.

I thought I was in an earthquake once, but it turned out to be a "truck came barreling down the side street that dead-ends at the house's back door, went up unto the sidewalk, hit the door, & bounced off" experience instead. Shook the house pretty good, though.

tanstaafl2 wrote:

silvercamaro wrote:According to the news, I should have felt a small earthquake this morning, but I didn't. The quake was small -- 3.4 -- but I live within the area where it was perceptible to others. At one point, Lizbit came running into my office and peeked outside through the Levelors, so that may have been when it happened.

I am disappointed in myself for missing it.

Based on my one experience with an earthquake, which occurred early one morning, it was rather like being in a bed with "magic fingers". You know, one of those beds in a run down no tell motel that you feed quarters into to get it to shake, rattle and roll. Umm, not that I have been in one of those. Well, not recently...

By the time I was awake enough to realize I wasn't in one of those beds (again...) it was all over with. Never made it out from under the covers.

If you are going to experience an earthquake that's the way to do it as far as I am concerned!

The only earthquake I ever experienced was like that. I was in Chattanooga, TN on a business trip and woke up to feel like the bed was shaking. I found out later there was a slight earthquake, I don't remember exactly what it was but it was under 4.0.

sunflower wrote:

tanstaafl2 wrote:

silvercamaro wrote:According to the news, I should have felt a small earthquake this morning, but I didn't. The quake was small -- 3.4 -- but I live within the area where it was perceptible to others. At one point, Lizbit came running into my office and peeked outside through the Levelors, so that may have been when it happened.

I am disappointed in myself for missing it.

Based on my one experience with an earthquake, which occurred early one morning, it was rather like being in a bed with "magic fingers". You know, one of those beds in a run down no tell motel that you feed quarters into to get it to shake, rattle and roll. Umm, not that I have been in one of those. Well, not recently...

By the time I was awake enough to realize I wasn't in one of those beds (again...) it was all over with. Never made it out from under the covers.

If you are going to experience an earthquake that's the way to do it as far as I am concerned!

The only earthquake I ever experienced was like that. I was in Chattanooga, TN on a business trip and woke up to feel like the bed was shaking. I found out later there was a slight earthquake, I don't remember exactly what it was but it was under 4.0.

May well have been the same one. I am in Atlanta and that quake was along the Georgia-Alabama line just south of Chattanooga on April 29, 2003. It registered somewhere between 4.6 and 4.9 at the epicenter.

Earthquake!!!

USGS report

tanstaafl2 wrote:

sunflower wrote:

tanstaafl2 wrote: Based on my one experience with an earthquake, which occurred early one morning, it was rather like being in a bed with "magic fingers". You know, one of those beds in a run down no tell motel that you feed quarters into to get it to shake, rattle and roll. Umm, not that I have been in one of those. Well, not recently...

By the time I was awake enough to realize I wasn't in one of those beds (again...) it was all over with. Never made it out from under the covers.

If you are going to experience an earthquake that's the way to do it as far as I am concerned!

The only earthquake I ever experienced was like that. I was in Chattanooga, TN on a business trip and woke up to feel like the bed was shaking. I found out later there was a slight earthquake, I don't remember exactly what it was but it was under 4.0.

May well have been the same one. I am in Atlanta and that quake was along the Georgia-Alabama line just south of Chattanooga on April 29, 2003. It registered somewhere between 4.6 and 4.9 at the epicenter.

Earthquake!!!

USGS report

I bet it was!!! The timing is about right, based on when I worked at that job! And I remember the news saying it was in Alabama. That's funny. I thought it was less than 4.0 but I was close.

peacock2121 wrote:

Second Chance wrote:

tanstaafl2 wrote: Based on my one experience with an earthquake, which occurred early one morning, it was rather like being in a bed with "magic fingers". You know, one of those beds in a run down no tell motel that you feed quarters into to get it to shake, rattle and roll. Umm, not that I have been in one of those. Well, not recently...

By the time I was awake enough to realize I wasn't in one of those beds (again...) it was all over with. Never made it out from under the covers.

If you are going to experience an earthquake that's the way to do it as far as I am concerned!

Speaking as someone who was thrown out of bed in '84... I definitely agree.

You've only been thrown out of bed once in your lifetime?

Wow.

oh





you were talking earthquake, not bad behavior.

You thought it was funny when it happened to me last year.......

Earthquakes are something interesting to experience...... once in your life anyway.......

lb13

When I was in college, there was a small earthquake in Philadelphia.

I staying overnight on campus after a long night working on The Temple News.

We thought it was the Broad Street Subway. Just a little louder than normal.

Years later, when I was working in Fresno, I felt the Coalinga earthquake.

Which was NOT the Broad Street Subway.

mellytu74 wrote:When I was in college, there was a small earthquake in Philadelphia.

I staying overnight on campus after a long night working on The Temple News.

We thought it was the Broad Street Subway. Just a little louder than normal.

Years later, when I was working in Fresno, I felt the Coalinga earthquake.

Which was NOT the Broad Street Subway.

Was it the Van Ness Street subway?

I've experienced three earthquakes in my lifetime, and I dint know any of them were earthquakes until later.

My California-raised friend called me up after the third one and said, "How about that earthquake!??" I recovered instantly and did not talk about how I thought it must have been a water break up the street, or something.

ulysses5019 wrote:

mellytu74 wrote:When I was in college, there was a small earthquake in Philadelphia.

I staying overnight on campus after a long night working on The Temple News.

We thought it was the Broad Street Subway. Just a little louder than normal.

Years later, when I was working in Fresno, I felt the Coalinga earthquake.

Which was NOT the Broad Street Subway.

Was it the Van Ness Street subway?

You're so silly

silvercamaro wrote:I am disappointed in myself for missing it.

Been there, done that. It's no great shakes. --Bob