Tremors in Chicago

daofcmacg · Post by **daofcmacg** » 28 Jun 2004, 07:09

Hey guys wassup! Well I actually got a chance to feel the after shocks of a 4.5 earthquake that came from downstate illinois. I'm sitting in my T.V. room at about 1:00 1:30 in the A.M. when it felt like someone was underground at my foundation shaking like they were crazy and strong as 20 oxen. I have never felt a sturdy built in 1924 double redundency Chicago Bungalow shake like that. Literally it felt like my house was going to fall apart wall by wall brick by brick beam by beam. Man there were atleast two after shocks so once it ends I run to my bedroom to check on my wife and she's sitting up in the bed stiff as stone looking like a deer caught in the headlights then she looks at me jumps into my arms and start crying I'm scared, please keep me safe. As if I am the hand of God and I decide who lives or dies.

But it was interesting and funny after the fact.

DA

Jedi Master · Post by **Jedi Master** » 28 Jun 2004, 07:37

Nice thing about FL--no earthquakes. We're sitting on limestone.

KODIAK · Post by **KODIAK** » 28 Jun 2004, 07:58

Well, you have your own problems to deal with then - shitty water that tastes awful, and not to mention premature breakdown of all your appliances like your washing machine, dishwasher, dryer even, kettle, steam iron, steam-powered television . . . . . . :roll: , well you know where I'm going here. Each area has it's own problems, just hope I can find somewhere that suits me when we emigrate out there.

daofcmacg · Post by **daofcmacg** » 28 Jun 2004, 09:03

I know how to handle Tornado's and flood's but when my house shook twice and the loadbearing wall that I was sitting against rocked I thought man I need a priest, a monk, rabbi, reverend, holly man, medicine man etc. to come to my house and get rid of the evil spirits.

The earthquake happened in Ottawa Illinois and the after shocked traveled
traveled 80.04 miles which to me nothing should travel that far and shake my house like that. Again I am not used to tremors so this is new, but when it happened it was like ok who's in my house(because she's 80 year's old in about three months) and footsteps moves thru my house so at first it felt like ok someone's in my attic then ok something's shaking my house ok poltergeist are here. There were two after shocks because my heart jumped out of my body twice, most folks only felt one.

DA

KODIAK · Post by **KODIAK** » 28 Jun 2004, 13:51

We've only really experienced two or three tremors - and I managed to sleep through ALL of them so far!

Nemisis · Post by **Nemisis** » 28 Jun 2004, 17:34

Scotland actually gets a few very small tremors every year due to the fact that there are 3 major fault lines running through it but the tremors are hardly noticeable and London has had a couple of tremors in the past also, i don't know why, as there are no fault lines in England?

Hammer · Post by **Hammer** » 28 Jun 2004, 22:05

wussie...

Hammer_other · Post by **Hammer_other** » 29 Jun 2004, 00:03

We're lucky. I don't believe there have been any noticeable tremors in my time, but in the past 20 years there has been a mini hurricane exactly where I live, and there have also been a couple of mini tornadoes!

KODIAK · Post by **KODIAK** » 29 Jun 2004, 00:54

On the overall picture of things it's all about the severity and frequency of the problem which determines your attitude towards it. If it doesn't tend to happen to you, you tend to ignore that it happens at all. So, when it does happen, you are either ill-prepared, or by the time you do something it's all over anyway, especially when it comes to tremors / after-shocks, even hurricanes or tornados.
In our part of Canada, during winter time everyone carries at least a small tent, and a variety of extreme cold weather protection equipment and vehicle self-recovery kit. We were caught out in May by a 'freak' storm which happens almost every year at that time. Basically our car caught fire on the way home, at the same time without any warning the weather came in and the storm began - out on the highway in the middle of a storm and unable to use the car for shelter, need I say anymore?

Well that was lesson learned - now we keep an emergency kit in the car, even in the summer time, even if it means something else gets left behind. having said that, here in the UK things are somewhat different. But come the winter time we WILL have that kit in our car again. It may sound a little extreme, but once bitten . . . . . :roll:

Hammer_other · Post by **Hammer_other** » 29 Jun 2004, 02:55

Flash floods are the only real risk around that time of year where I live. There is next to no snow, but I remember one time a few years back where the whole area was flooded. FOR SEVERAL MONTHS!

KODIAK · Post by **KODIAK** » 29 Jun 2004, 03:09

Yeah, that's been a bit of a trend in recent years around the UK at that time of year. But IMHO, there has to be more to it than just weather cycles - they need to get off their arses (council departments) and perform the correct research to rectify the problem, instead of leaving it to the emergency services and military to overcome the problem as it arises, because to me this constitutes abuse of, and unnecessary use of services which could be urgently required (possibly because of the same problem) in other areas. The emergency services are unable to concentrate on what they are trained for properly cos their manpower is being used to deal with what should have been prevented by the various council departments before the problem arose for the umpteenth year running!

Hammer_other · Post by **Hammer_other** » 29 Jun 2004, 03:15

VERY true. And on top of that, we're being charged more and more for services that don't seem to be appearing!

KODIAK · Post by **KODIAK** » 29 Jun 2004, 04:17

DA, I hope you've noticed the riot you've started here! When us Brits get started on whingeing about the council & government thre's just no stopping us.

Hammer_other · Post by **Hammer_other** » 29 Jun 2004, 06:04

LOL! It's true though! The councils don't seem to be doing much for us atm, other than raising council tax. Loads of elderly people are refusing to pay (the pensions aren't in a good state either). Everything is a mess in this country. the National Health Service, the trains, the housing (they're pulling houses down in the north and sticking them up in the south-east-urban life here I come!), and the situation in Iraq is the last thing Mister Blair needed. I am quite honestly astounded that they made the deadline on the transfer of power.

KODIAK · Post by **KODIAK** » 29 Jun 2004, 14:13

Yeah, but let's not kid ourselves, it ain't exactly a stable environment either is it?!

Well, let's get our boys out and leave them to get on with it - it's their own damn problem anyway. And screw the bloody oil we'll get it from somewhere else.

Hammer_other · Post by **Hammer_other** » 30 Jun 2004, 00:25

Well said.

daofcmacg · Post by **daofcmacg** » 30 Jun 2004, 07:05

Now Now you little Brits, don't use my post to get your twisted message out about your government.

DA

Hammer_other · Post by **Hammer_other** » 30 Jun 2004, 07:55

It was an opportunity worth taking! and our message needs to be proclaimed!

AND DON'T YOU CALL US LITTLE BRITS!!

KODIAK · Post by **KODIAK** » 30 Jun 2004, 15:18

Yeah! No friggin minnows in my millpond - dude!

Nemisis · Post by **Nemisis** » 30 Jun 2004, 18:25

Brits! Brits!

Does such a thing actually exist?

Brits/British: a term used by people from other countries to describe people from the British Isles.

Go out on the Street and ask any "Brit" what nationality they are and they will say English, Welsh, Irish and last and by no means least SCOTTISH (the best in my opinion LOL) not British.

Not that it's anyone fault that other countries describe us as Brits though since Globally we are portrayed as one united country, but as the above example shows there are big differences between us all in traditions, laws and especially accents LOL.

And each is proud to be part of there own bit of Britain and we all get on most of the time but you'l certainly get a negative reaction if you called a Welsh or Scotsman English or vice versa just like a Canadian might get upset if you called him an American or the other way about,since they all consider there own part of Britain to be a country in it's own right.

The Main reason Scots hold a grudge against the English these days is not the battles we had a few hundred years ago but the fact that in 1966 England won the Football World Cup :roll: and they still go on about it today like it was yesterday not 38 years ago! :lol:

By the way Hammer Damm shame about England getting kicked out of the European Football Championships

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