OT... Any of you guys in calif.....

[dezeldoc]

Ever look at this site from the USGS, kinda of cool.

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/

[TodFitch]

I have that site bookmarked and go there any time I feel moved (by the ground that is). There is a click through from there to a "did you feel it" page where you can state where you were and what the quake did where you were. My brother-in-law, a geologist with the USGS in Colorado, had a little to do with setting up that program.

[pflaming]

Todd, those are NOT earth quakes, they are republicans voting for McCain!

[Don Jordan]

We had to do an earthquake drill last week. It was the same drill we did when I was a kid: get under your desk and cover your head.

The only difference is when I was a kid we were covering because of the Atom Bomb - now they are covering for an earthquake.

All that practice and we never did get hit with an Atomic Bomb...

FWIW: I remember my grandmother telling stories about the earthquake in San Francisco in 1906. I fear one today will be just a bit more catastrophic. Just with the fires we just had they closed down the freeways and people went nuts. There is no evacuation plan.

I'm getting old and tired.

[Don Coatney]

We had to do an earthquake drill last week.

It was the same drill we did when I was a kid: get under

your desk and cover your head.

The only difference is when I was a kid we were covering

because of the Atom Bomb - now they are covering for an

earthquake.

All that practice and we never did get hit with an Atomic

Bomb...

FWIW: I remember my grandmother telling stories about the

earthquake in San Francisco in 1906. I fear one today will

be just a bit more catastrophic. Just with the fires we just

had they closed down the freeways and people went nuts.

There is no evacuation plan.

I'm getting old and tired.

Don;

Your posting brought back my memories of the A-bomb drills

I had in grade school and also of the 1906 San Francisco

earthquake. My cousin Army Colonel Oliver Perry Morton

Hazard was stationed in San Francisco when the quake hit.

He was the assistant to the quartermaster and helped put

the town back together. Below is a letter his mother sent

to her sister when the quake hit. Her sister was my GG

Grandmother. OPM Hazzard is buried in San Francisco in

the Presidio and I found his tomb stone on one of my trips.

[Don Jordan]

An excellent piece of history - thank you for sharing.

d-

[PatS....]

We had to do an earthquake drill last week. It was the same drill we did when I was a kid: get under your desk and cover your head.

...

All that practice and we never did get hit with an Atomic Bomb...

I wonder what made them think that WOOD would protect us from a nuclear blast????

[Plymouthy Adams]

just an exercise to get your head close enough to kiss your ass goodbye...

[Dennis Hemingway]

PatS.... I remember going to Las Vegas as a kid to see the light and cloud in the sky.

Dennis:eek:

This is a post card from Early Vegas.com.

[Don Coatney]

I wonder what made them think that WOOD would protect us from a nuclear blast????

Wood might not do the trick. But I did see Indiana Jones survive a nuclear blast by hiding in a refrigerator. He was lucky he did not get stuck in the refrigerator and sufficate. In the olden days it was legal to place a refrigerator near the street for trash pickup without removing the door. That would have made it handy to hide in if a nuclear blase happened in your neighborhood. These days it is illegal to place a refrigerator near the street without first removing the door. So I guess under a wooden desk is once again the place ot hide.