Holy crap earthquake

[danc1005]

I'm up by Chicago and it woke me up.

I just thought something naughty was going on in the house.

Inner city life.

[chocobojoe]

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

[LikeableRodent]

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

http://www.wane.com/Global/story.asp?S= ... v=menu32_5

[LikeableRodent]

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

[chocobojoe]

Is your bike okay?

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

[DAVE101]

The Official Earthquake Accomplishments Thread

[LikeableRodent]

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.

The Official Earthquake Accomplishments Thread

I'm winning!

[Fluffyumpkins]

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

[Merk]

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

[chocobojoe]

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

[DAVE101]

Metric system?!? This is AMURRICA, keep your metrics in Japan

[LikeableRodent]

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.

[Riot]

Another 7.4 earthquake today! Ouch =(

[LikeableRodent]

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.

[chocobojoe]

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.