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Re: Holy crap earthquake

Post by danc1005 » Sat Apr 19, 2008 8:48 pm

YeehawMcKickass wrote:I'm up by Chicago and it woke me up.

I just thought something naughty was going on in the house.
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Re: Holy crap earthquake

Post by chocobojoe » Sat Apr 19, 2008 11:17 pm

Original Sin wrote:A knife was it? So, they've finally settled on homicide, or are they still debating between murder/suicide situations?
i'm pretty sure they've ruled it a homicide now

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Re: Holy crap earthquake

Post by LikeableRodent » Sun Apr 20, 2008 4:12 am

Yeah, it was ruled a homicide by stabbing. An arrest has already been made.

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Re: Holy crap earthquake

Post by LikeableRodent » Sat Mar 12, 2011 1:02 am

I feel like I'm qualified to bump this thread.
I:
-Rode through a ~9.0 quake yesterday
-Rode through 100+ aftershocks, some of which are 6.0+
-Was planning to go on a bike today to the city with the "burning houses" tsunami (my plans have since changed)
-Am 50 km away from a nuclear power plant that's currently in meltdown

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Re: Holy crap earthquake

Post by chocobojoe » Sat Mar 12, 2011 3:57 am

Is your bike okay?

Joking aside, are YOU okay? How are you faring in this situation?

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Re: Holy crap earthquake

Post by DAVE101 » Sat Mar 12, 2011 9:22 am

The Official Earthquake Accomplishments Thread
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Re: Holy crap earthquake

Post by LikeableRodent » Thu Mar 17, 2011 10:14 pm

chocobojoe wrote:Is your bike okay?

Joking aside, are YOU okay? How are you faring in this situation?
Stupid board wasn't letting me login properly, so I stopped trying to log in via my phone... but I finally got my laptop!

Anyway, my bike is fine (whoo...). I live about 65 km from the affected plant (plus the lack of running water/empty grocery stores/no gas), so a few days ago some friends and I decided to leave the city and go west. I'm now squatting in someone's apartment with a few other people, but at least here we're about 100 km from the plant and have full utilities and semi-stocked grocery stores.

A shitton of foreigners have fled the country, but I'm going to stay here and ride it out.
DAVE101 wrote:The Official Earthquake Accomplishments Thread
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Re: Holy crap earthquake

Post by Fluffyumpkins » Fri Mar 18, 2011 8:17 am

Kilometers and shittons? Pick a system of measurement and stick with it or don't bother coming back.

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Re: Holy crap earthquake

Post by Merk » Fri Mar 18, 2011 9:49 am

Don't be a chode, I hope Adam makes some detailed blog posts about his experience during Quake-a-thon 2011
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Re: Holy crap earthquake

Post by chocobojoe » Fri Mar 18, 2011 1:26 pm

A shitton is a valid unit of measurement in the metric system.

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Re: Holy crap earthquake

Post by DAVE101 » Fri Mar 18, 2011 6:16 pm

Metric system?!? This is AMURRICA, keep your metrics in Japan
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Re: Holy crap earthquake

Post by LikeableRodent » Fri Mar 18, 2011 9:35 pm

Merk wrote:Don't be a chode, I hope Adam makes some detailed blog posts about his experience during Quake-a-thon 2011
Yeah... I haven't updated my blog in about a year and a half. I'm not really planning on starting it up again now.

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Re: Holy crap earthquake

Post by Riot » Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:38 am

Another 7.4 earthquake today! Ouch =(

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Re: Holy crap earthquake

Post by LikeableRodent » Thu Apr 07, 2011 10:31 pm

Riot wrote:Another 7.4 earthquake today! Ouch =(
Yeah. Stupid thing had to strike at 11:30 at night while I was sleeping.

Thing is, it's not just how much the big quakes shake that's scary--it's that they're really frickin' loud. Usually, you'll hear a loud deep rumbling both somewhere and everywhere. A few seconds later everything starts shaking. And I mean everything starts shaking. And sometimes stuff starts falling.

So imagine the sound of everything everywhere violently shaking, and on top of it the earth beneath and surrounding you is screaming out in this really loud, deep rumble. Then imagine that you were nice and naked and comfortable under your comfy warm sheets and got woken up by all this.

And that was my night.

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Re: Holy crap earthquake

Post by chocobojoe » Fri Apr 08, 2011 12:58 am

I'm glad you're still alive.

The most violent, nude (and rude) awakening I've had lately was my cat sticking his tail in my mouth at 5:30 AM. Nothing like an earthquake, but still pretty unpleasant.

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