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#1 Post by **littlebeast13** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:07 am

I just happened to wake up around 4:30, and certainly wasn't prepared for this....

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/rare-large ... 2509990001

It scared the hell out of me when my bed started shaking. Well, there's one more experience I can scratch off my list. I just can't believe in almost 33 years here I have yet to see a tornado....

lb13

peacock2121 · #2 Post by **peacock2121** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:22 am

It scared the hell out of me when my bed started shaking.

Sorry, lb, you studmuffin you, this cracked me up.

Bob Juch · #3 Post by **Bob Juch** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:27 am

littlebeast13 wrote:I just happened to wake up around 4:30, and certainly wasn't prepared for this....

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/rare-large ... 2509990001

It scared the hell out of me when my bed started shaking. Well, there's one more experience I can scratch off my list. I just can't believe in almost 33 years here I have yet to see a tornado....

lb13

I'll see if I can arrange that.

Iben Browning · #4 Post by **Iben Browning** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:49 am

My prediction was accurate! I was a miniscule 18 years off! I have finally been vindicated!

I'd have me a celebratory martini, shaken not stirred, if I weren't cooped up in this coffin right now....

silvercamaro · #5 Post by **silvercamaro** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:54 am

littlebeast13 wrote:
Well, there's one more experience I can scratch off my list. I just can't believe in almost 33 years here I have yet to see a tornado....

lb13

They are far more intriguing when you can watch them on television instead of in the sky.

minimetoo26 · #6 Post by **minimetoo26** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:56 am

Man, those bastards scared me with that "East of St. Louis" crap until I saw the map, and the epicenter was on the border of Illinois and Indiana, not Missouri and Illinois!

I think earthquakes are worse than tornadoes as far as warning time goes. You get about a week with hurricanes, a few minutes with tornadoes, and "What the hell just happened?" with earthquakes.

geoffil · #7 Post by **geoffil** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:00 am

My family felt it here in Chicago. Of course it was nothin' compared to the San Fransisco quake I felt while driving on the Bay Bridge back in the day. That is one reason why I don't live there.

#8 Post by **littlebeast13** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:03 am

minimetoo26 wrote:Man, those bastards scared me with that "East of St. Louis" crap until I saw the map, and the epicenter was on the border of Illinois and Indiana, not Missouri and Illinois!

I think earthquakes are worse than tornadoes as far as warning time goes. You get about a week with hurricanes, a few minutes with tornadoes, and "What the hell just happened?" with earthquakes.

I don't think we have any actual fault lines running near here. The big scare here is always a repeat of 1811 down south. I still have a bag of dirt from New Madrid, MO in my junk box that they were selling as souvenirs around here back when the whole area was under Browning-mania in 1990. If we ever get the biggie, it'll be coming at us from that-a-way, and I doubt I'll be able to post about it from the wreck this place would become is 7.0 or so came through here.....

lb13

Appa23 · #9 Post by **Appa23** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:14 am

silvercamaro wrote:
littlebeast13 wrote:
Well, there's one more experience I can scratch off my list. I just can't believe in almost 33 years here I have yet to see a tornado....

lb13
They are far more intriguing when you can watch them on television instead of in the sky.

Since I was a kid, I have really had the need to run outside whenever the sirens start wailing.

A wife and, especially, kids have made me focus on something else now when bad weather is a brewin'.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #10 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:28 am

When I worked, the corporate office was in St. Louis. One of the computer gods (I can't call him a guy, he was a god because he could fix anything) used to talk to about St. Louis being due for a huge earthquake.

I never believed him.

MarleysGh0st · #11 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:34 am

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:When I worked, the corporate office was in St. Louis. One of the computer gods (I can't call him a guy, he was a god because he could fix anything) used to talk to about St. Louis being due for a huge earthquake.

I never believed him.

Computer guys are humble, PSM.

You may call him a guru.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #12 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:03 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:When I worked, the corporate office was in St. Louis. One of the computer gods (I can't call him a guy, he was a god because he could fix anything) used to talk to about St. Louis being due for a huge earthquake.

I never believed him.
Computer guys are humble, PSM.

You may call him a guru.

He was so much more than that.

The funny thing is that he was sort of a Luddite out of the office. He doesn't have a computer or a television.

Every year I get a six or seven page hand-written letter from him telling me about his views of the world.

He's one of the coolest people I've ever met.

MarleysGh0st · #13 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:11 am

A hand-written letter!?!?

Doesn't sound like any computer guy I know. Maybe he is a god.

#14 Post by **littlebeast13** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:11 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:A hand-written letter!?!?

Doesn't sound like any computer guy I know. Maybe he is a god.

I wonder if he drives a stick shift....

lb13

MarleysGh0st · #15 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:12 am

OTOH, he sounds a bit like Ted Kaczynski.

Don't open any packages from him.

minimetoo26 · #16 Post by **minimetoo26** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:13 am

littlebeast13 wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:A hand-written letter!?!?

Doesn't sound like any computer guy I know. Maybe he is a god.

I wonder if he drives a stick shift....

lb13

Was his name Ted Kazinski, or however he spelled it?

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #17 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:14 am

littlebeast13 wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:A hand-written letter!?!?

Doesn't sound like any computer guy I know. Maybe he is a god.

I wonder if he drives a stick shift....

lb13

Actually, if I recall correctly, he lives close enough that he jogged to work every morning.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #18 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:14 am

minimetoo26 wrote:
littlebeast13 wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:A hand-written letter!?!?

Doesn't sound like any computer guy I know. Maybe he is a god.

I wonder if he drives a stick shift....

lb13
Was his name Ted Kazinski, or however he spelled it?

No, not at all.

#19 Post by **littlebeast13** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:15 am

minimetoo26 wrote:
littlebeast13 wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:A hand-written letter!?!?

Doesn't sound like any computer guy I know. Maybe he is a god.

I wonder if he drives a stick shift....

lb13
Was his name Ted Kazinski, or however he spelled it?

Now mini cracked me up! it's supposed to work the other way around....

lb13

MarleysGh0st · #20 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:15 am

minimetoo26 wrote:Was his name Ted Kazinski, or however he spelled it?

Jinx, mini!

#21 Post by **littlebeast13** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:18 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote:Was his name Ted Kazinski, or however he spelled it?
Jinx, mini!

I didn't even see your response, just like I missed Nelly's LS answers that one time we got rolling in the LS thread.

Mini gives me tunnel vision.....

lb13

peacock2121 · #22 Post by **peacock2121** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:27 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:When I worked, the corporate office was in St. Louis. One of the computer gods (I can't call him a guy, he was a god because he could fix anything) used to talk to about St. Louis being due for a huge earthquake.

I never believed him.
Computer guys are humble, PSM.

You may call him a guru.

Ha!

and

Ha!

minimetoo26 · #23 Post by **minimetoo26** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:37 am

littlebeast13 wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote:Was his name Ted Kazinski, or however he spelled it?
Jinx, mini!

I didn't even see your response, just like I missed Nelly's LS answers that one time we got rolling in the LS thread.

Mini gives me tunnel vision.....

lb13

Did you just say tunnel?

minimetoo26 · #24 Post by **minimetoo26** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:37 am

minimetoo26 wrote:
littlebeast13 wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote: Jinx, mini!

I didn't even see your response, just like I missed Nelly's LS answers that one time we got rolling in the LS thread.

Mini gives me tunnel vision.....

lb13
Did you just say tunnel?

...tunnel?

#25 Post by **littlebeast13** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:37 am

minimetoo26 wrote:
littlebeast13 wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote: Jinx, mini!

I didn't even see your response, just like I missed Nelly's LS answers that one time we got rolling in the LS thread.

Mini gives me tunnel vision.....

lb13
Did you just say tunnel?

No, I typed it!

lb13

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