pres2032
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Fri Jan-07-05 12:18 AM
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seriously freaked! my house was just rocked by something! |
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i was just just about to go up the second floor when the house just shook. i checked the basement hoping our heating tank didn't go, though i'm sure i'd be dead if it did. what the hell happened? I think my neighbors felt it too 'cause i saw them turn their lights on briefly before turning them back off. Did anyone else in eastern PA feel anything? any reports of an explosion or earthquake anywhere??
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Fri Jan-07-05 12:20 AM
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1. Hope all is well...being in California |
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I know that can concern you when it happens
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Fri Jan-07-05 12:21 AM
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2. Oops, sorry, I had White Castle for Dinner.... |
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Just kidding! I hope everything has settled down out there!!!
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Fri Jan-07-05 12:21 AM
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3. Lot of snow and ice on your roof? Maybe it slid off. n/t |
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Fri Jan-07-05 12:23 AM
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i did think that maybe my tree finally snapped, but then it's not in any danger of hitting the house and it's not big enough to shake a house even if it fell right next to it.
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Fri Jan-07-05 12:57 AM
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14. definitely thinking that's what it is |
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you should hear all the stuff blowing around up on the roof right now. pretty amazing but also half-expecting the roof to cave-in at anytime.
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Fri Jan-07-05 12:59 AM
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15. well, better to have lost the load. Unless there happen to be |
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vehicles where it fell. Hard on the windshield - I know from personal experience.
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Fri Jan-07-05 01:01 AM
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16. there are cars in the driveway |
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Fri Jan-07-05 12:25 AM
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5. you have a neighbour you can call? check your radio? call the police? |
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It's hopefully nothing as serious as you think, but try to get some info if you can.
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Fri Jan-07-05 12:25 AM
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6. Nothing on the earthquake page yet |
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Fri Jan-07-05 12:32 AM
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7. I think it updates about 5 minutes after an earthquake. |
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Fri Jan-07-05 12:34 AM
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8. Any coal mine tunnels under your area? |
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I hope not, but there are problems with mine subsidence in Pennsylvania.
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Fri Jan-07-05 12:37 AM
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9. there are quarries nearby, at least 3 of them |
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but i don't think they've ever exploded inside them at night.
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Fri Jan-07-05 09:34 AM
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20. Subsidence=old abandoned coal mine tunnels collapse. |
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NOT quarries (which are open to the surface). There are some whole neighborhoods in PA which have had to be abandoned as the homes start sinking. Check with Army Corps of Engineers-there are maps you can look at to see if there are any underground tunnels below your area.
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Fri Jan-07-05 12:37 AM
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10. Any chance it was thunder? |
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We had a snow storm here a while back and we had some claps of thunder and some lightning with it. Anyway, our house got rocked when lightning hit not that far away. There's a tree about half a block away that was the target. At first it was freaky because it was so unexpected. Plus the thunder sounded different, not like it usually does, I think the snow somehow distorted the sound by asborbing some of it when it hit.
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Fri Jan-07-05 12:40 AM
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11. that could be a possibility |
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didn't see any flash though. usually when lightening strikes so close, the sky lights up to where it looks like daytime.
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Fri Jan-07-05 02:32 AM
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18. Just had a strange thought |
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(chalk it up to lack of sleep) Maybe it was the sound of the earth settling into its new orbit or the sound the earth makes as the vibration slows down.
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Fri Jan-07-05 03:08 AM
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Fri Jan-07-05 02:01 PM
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24. Actually a snundersnorm |
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is what occurs every night at my house. Between the dogs and my husband I get snundersnormed every night. :nopity:
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Fri Jan-07-05 04:54 PM
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By the way, are you a Joel Mabus fan, by any chance?
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Sat Jan-08-05 09:02 PM
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I was named after the third antichrist. ;-)
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Sat Jan-08-05 09:05 PM
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27. Feed them snausages. They'll be fine. |
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Sat Jan-08-05 09:17 PM
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they just shared one, the dogs that is. They went outside and did a quick patrol around their yard. They are ever vigilant against unauthorized intruders, including but not limited to squirrels, cats and opossums. I rewarded them with a snausage when they came back in.
My husband won't take his though. He says he didn't do yard patrol. He gave his to the dogs.
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Sat Jan-08-05 09:19 PM
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29. OK, then make him poo in the yard. |
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Fri Jan-07-05 12:41 AM
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12. I've seen a million faces... |
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...and I rocked them all!
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Fri Jan-07-05 12:55 AM
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13. Maybe it might be Osama's earthquake machine. |
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Edited on Fri Jan-07-05 12:56 AM by Valerie5555
Just kidding and playing with you, for no worries I don't think he even has one and maybe any reports that he does is :tinfoilhat: stuff.
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Fri Jan-07-05 01:27 AM
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17. there was a little shaker at about 5:30 A.M. |
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this morning, here in the L.A. area. It was only a 3._ something, but enough to wake me up.
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Fri Jan-07-05 10:03 AM
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21. Just RandomKoolzip tuning up |
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Fri Jan-07-05 10:08 AM
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22. Are you close to any chemical plants or refineries? |
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Here on the Gulf Coast, the first thought would be that one of them had blown....
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Fri Jan-07-05 10:10 AM
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I grew up in a Steel town. My house was never not shaking.
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Sat Jan-08-05 09:51 PM
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30. Care for a cigarette? |
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