WHO WAS IN A PRIVY DURING THE EARTHQUAKE?!?!?

[pjritter]

Was anyone in a privy during the earthquake of 8/23/2011??​

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I WAS​

 

[RICKJJ59W]

I wish I was,I was checking a spot out though.

 

[pjritter]

i feel like a west coast digger now

 

[CALDIGR2]

That was no earthquake. A puny 5.7? We hardly feel those in CA.[8D]

 

[VTdigger]

I dug after work after 3:30, some people I work with said they felt a little of it (in Vermont.) but I didn't feel a thing.

 

[CWBookAuthor]

That was no earthquake. A puny 5.7? We hardly feel those in CA.

The geology is MUCH different in the west than in the East Coast. If for no other reason, you should take some courses in Geology!

Mike

 

[andy volkerts]

[] Yeah the one ya all had was much worse for you than it would have been for us due your conditions. ......Andy

 

[glass man]

I was up all night last night due to ins..couldn't sleep.I live here in North Ga. and it knocked me outta the bed and plumb out the window into a neighbor's wheelbarrow he was wheeling down his side yard..thenh a wide crack came up and the ground came up delivering lots of real old bottles from the 1860 period! A GREAT DAY!!JAMIE

 

[CALDIGR2]

I saw footage of the damage and was very surprised at the problems from such a small shaker. Even though the eastern US has well known fault zones there has been little effort to increase earthquake protection construction standards. Loma Prieta, here in CA, was a magnitude 7.1 and we barely felt it. Water sloshed from the pool, but our 90 yr old house suffered no damage and no bottles fell from the shelves and windowsills. They were not puttied down, just free standing.

 

[RonJonbold]

Even a relatively mild quake like that one can be dangerous if you're near the epicenter and, say, underneath a building that happens to fall on you. And like you said, Caldigr2, we get earthquakes out here all the time and so we build with quakes in mind, which cuts the damage. Think what would happen if there was a heavy snowfall in LA and how that would affect the way people drive, when there's no snowmoving equipment and most people don't have chains. But in Minneapolis it's not a problem.

I've been through so many of them that I must have been on the privy for one or another but I don't remember.