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    AM showers, PM earthquakes

    Overheard this conversation between a CW and a guest. She was asking about the area (sounds like she was thinking of moving here).
    (One should note we're in the "Ring of Fire" in an area where three plates are colliding.)

    Guest: Do you get earthquakes here?

    CW: Well, I've lived here for eight years and we've had a couple small ones in that time.

    Guest: And...did you know they were coming? Did they announce warnings?


    Me (thinking): It...NO! It doesn't work like that!!!
    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
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    I can see where the question is coming from. Here in the midwest, we have tornado sirens. But still, nothing announces that an earthquake is coming. It just does.


    ....damnit, I think I just set myself up for a joke.
    I have a...thing. Wanna see it?

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    • #3
      Hell, we get earthquakes here. Which is not surprising since we're sitting smack on top of a rift. Honestly, I'm more worried about the volcanoes.

      Quoth Nurian View Post
      I can see where the question is coming from. Here in the midwest, we have tornado sirens. But still, nothing announces that an earthquake is coming. It just does.


      ....damnit, I think I just set myself up for a joke.
      Nobody expects the Spanish earthquake.
      It's floating wicker propelled by fire!

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        Quoth Nurian View Post
        I can see where the question is coming from. Here in the midwest, we have tornado sirens. But still, nothing announces that an earthquake is coming. It just does...
        Did the earth move for you?
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        • #5
          Quoth dalesys View Post
          Did the earth move for you?
          That might make a good K-Y His and Hers commercial.
          Human Resources - the adult version of "I'm telling Mom." - Agent Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo (NCIS)

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          • #6
            Quoth Pagan View Post
            Hell, we get earthquakes here. Which is not surprising since we're sitting smack on top of a rift
            *decides not to go with obscure RIFTS joke that almost nobody here will get*
            Nobody expects the Spanish earthquake.
            Bring forth the Comfy Chair! And a seismograph...
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            • #7
              you can get earthquake warnings, but there is such a short amount of time between the warning and the earthquake its not really very useful for many places to use them.

              the only places where they are used are places where it could cause a tidal wave (which travels a little slower and thus there is enough warning to get out of dodge)
              "You can only try so hard to look like you are working before actually doing your work seems easy in comparison" -My Boss

              CW: So what exactly do you do in retentions?
              Me: ummm, I ....retent stuff?

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              • #8
                Not earthquakes, but during the recent disruptions due to the Icelandic volcano eruption I heard..
                "You'd think they'd be able to know in advance that it would affect air travel"
                Arp happens!

                Just when I was getting used to yesterday, along came today.

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                • #9
                  Quoth EricKei View Post
                  *decides not to go with obscure RIFTS joke that almost nobody here will get*
                  Bring forth the Comfy Chair! And a seismograph...
                  Other dude: So how'd you get here?
                  Me: Same way as anyone else, really. Walking along, minding my own business, when I tripped over a pyramid-shaped rock on the ground and tumbled through a series of vortices until I landed here. ... You?

                  *blinks* What?
                  hea·then [hee-thuhn] noun
                  1. an unconverted individual that does not acknowledge the God of the Bible.
                  2. an irreligious, uncultured, or uncivilized person.
                  3. the children of NotSoInnocent.

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