You call this livin'?

Posted by Poindexter (M) on October 16, 2006 at 12:32:59

In Reply to: So how did you survive yesterdays quake? posted by unclestu52 on October 16, 2006 at 11:04:08:

I don't believe they made such a big deal out of it. The big island is the next one over; I was standing in my bedroom when I heard the dishes start to rattle in the cupboards, and went out in the kitchen to hold the doors shut. It was a bit of a dance for fifteen seconds or so, but I didn't have any trouble keeping my feet. Classic pattern; first sharp little jerks, then smoothing out into an ocean wave sort of rock.

I think the reason we lost so much power is that it's been so long since the last one, about fifteen or twenty years. We used to get them every few months or year, and they would get about ten seconds on the local news. Come to think of it, they stopped about when Kilauea Iki started spouting real consistently. I wonder if Pele is getting ready to move house.

A funny thing; there was absolutely no howling of cats and dogs before. That's usually the first warning - it must have started real suddenly, had no preshocks.

Thanks for your concern,

Poinz

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Topic - What's the best wood for a sand filled isolation platform? - lornoah@hotmail.com 16:50:40 10/13/06 (17)

Re: What's the best wood for a sand filled isolation platform? - robertopisa 03:25:44 10/28/06 (0)

If you don't sand it it'll sound rough; if you do it'll have grain (nt) - knothead 14:23:38 10/17/06 (0)

I used MDF for mine - BobM 08:42:52 10/16/06 (0)

Re: What's the best wood for a sand filled isolation platform? - CD 11:26:57 10/14/06 (2)

....and try: - tmiddle 10:46:11 10/16/06 (0)

Wooden it be nice? - dave c 16:53:07 10/15/06 (0)

IME vibration controls are almost always useful - bartc 09:43:09 10/14/06 (0)

Re: What's the best wood for a sand filled isolation platform? - lipmanl 20:09:29 10/13/06 (1)

Re: What's the best wood for a sand filled isolation platform? - pkell44 11:44:41 10/14/06 (0)

Oak, Poplar, something hi-density and dead. - Poindexter 19:06:38 10/13/06 (7)

Uhhh - unclestu52 12:31:38 10/14/06 (6)

Au Contraire - DaveT 13:44:58 10/14/06 (5)

Thank you. - Poindexter 18:55:41 10/14/06 (2)

So how did you survive yesterdays quake? - unclestu52 11:04:08 10/16/06 (1)

You call this livin'? - Poindexter 12:32:59 10/16/06 (0)

Density and hardness - jnorv 13:56:59 10/14/06 (1)

Thank you, Jim (NT) - unclestu52 16:11:21 10/14/06 (0)

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