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Post by richardw on Nov 14, 2016 13:50:21 GMT -5
I'm picking a bulldozer, all the helicopters are tied up dealing with the human needs ATM |
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Post by shoshannah on Nov 14, 2016 15:46:05 GMT -5
Happy to hear everything is ok for you.
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Post by richardw on Nov 15, 2016 0:07:57 GMT -5
News on the cows and calf, they used a digger to build a ramp.
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Post by steev on Nov 15, 2016 2:35:16 GMT -5
I'm surprised; looked like a collapse-hazard. How did that happen, anyway; was there a reservoir blow-out, causing such erosion, or just surface-collapse; pretty remarkable re-structuring, in any event.
In '89, when the 7.8 Loma Prieta Earthquake hit the southern Bay Area, an elevated double-decker freeway in Oakland pancaked; they were getting people out of that mess for a month; at night, we could hear the demolition going on for months; two months after the 'quake, my ex-to-be got out of the Bay Area, being freaked by the whole deal, so there was a silver lining, tarnished though it may have been.
She left me an empty (really) house, a one-month-old pickup, a big dog, and the cat; I made out like a bandit! Thank you, tectonic plates!
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Post by reed on Nov 15, 2016 8:03:39 GMT -5
I am surprised too about the cows, I figured they might just shoot them so they didn't thirst to death or fall off.
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Post by prairiegarden on Nov 15, 2016 9:42:25 GMT -5
Glad they didn't, so much destruction, a good thing they managed to save the animals they could. You have to wonder how many were lost. How the farmer is going to deal with those fields now is a question enough without losing possibly the last of the herd. Good for them to get the animals down safely.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Nov 15, 2016 12:22:09 GMT -5
She left me an empty (really) house, a one-month-old pickup, a big dog, and the cat; I made out like a bandit! Sounds like a great deal!!! Did she scrape the paint off the walls? |
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Post by steev on Nov 15, 2016 13:23:24 GMT -5
No, that would have been work; but she took the lint along with the rugs.
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Post by richardw on Nov 15, 2016 13:32:42 GMT -5
All my ex left me with was a set of stainless bowls and a dog that hated her, gees dog are smart aren't they.
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Post by richardw on Nov 15, 2016 13:46:35 GMT -5
Where the cattle had been trapped was a hillside that slid, for poor cow and her calf, like steev and his sweetheart a case of 'Rock and roll, Baby!'
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Post by steev on Nov 15, 2016 19:04:07 GMT -5
I hope those bowls were big enough to give you and your prescient dog some shelter, at the time.
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Post by richardw on Nov 16, 2016 1:36:02 GMT -5
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Post by steev on Nov 16, 2016 2:45:35 GMT -5
Earthquakes are a trip. The Loma Prieta in 1979 was a 7.8.
I was driving home at the end of the day along a street that had been road-work for months; suddenly there was a weird zoop; I checked the mirror to see whether I'd not noticed a road obstruction; no; there was a plume of smoke to the left; the radio was on "scan" and there was a brief blurb of some helicopter-guy freaking about a collapsed freeway; traffic lights not working; people screaming at intersections; got home to find my ex-to-be in the backyard freaked out about an earthquake; first I knew of it.
A month later, I'd lost half my landscape-maintenance business because people were freaked-out about real-estate in the Bay Area and my ex-to-be was moving out; talk about a cloud with a silver lining. Not every lemon turns out to be sour; ya just gotta wait to see. I'm sorry so many had to suffer to get her off my back, but I'm grateful that they did.
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Post by richardw on Nov 16, 2016 12:06:42 GMT -5
Earthquakes are a real adrenaline rush, from fast asleep to standing at the end of the bed within a couple of seconds thinking, 'fuck this is a big one', with ya heart fair going to town.
Heard a few stories from people driving when it hit. A mail delivery truckie reckons the waves coming towards him were like those out at sea, he knew straight away what was coming. Others say its like getting a 'blow out' at the speed limit.
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Post by prairiegarden on Nov 16, 2016 17:33:15 GMT -5
What are you supposed to do if you are driving? Just keep going? Stop and get out? the ones ones I've experienced were little guys hardly more than a quick shudder and over as soon as you knew what it was. Hard to know what to do if you suddenly see a wave of earth or road coming at you.
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