gennimom
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Let's get summer over with! Me want snow!
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« on: February 26, 2008, 09:45:21 PM » |
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I heard you got a little rattled over there. A 4.7 earthquake?
Are you still standing? :)
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gennimom
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Let's get summer over with! Me want snow!
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« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2008, 10:49:02 PM » |
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Just ignore this one. My puter was doing weird stuff and I double posted. Aargh!
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Monday reeks! - Garfield The outside of a horse is good for the inside of a person (or something like that). |
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expatinuk
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« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2008, 11:02:47 PM » |
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We had an earthquake?
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Expatinuk seems to be a Soviet Satellite in stationary orbit over the UK
It is what it is.
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« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2008, 02:33:05 AM » |
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We had an earthquake?
I didn't feel it, but hearing the news reports this morning, I now know why my cats started bouncing around on me last night at around 1am. |
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expatinuk
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« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2008, 02:49:06 AM » |
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We had an earthquake?
I didn't feel it, but hearing the news reports this morning, I now know why my cats started bouncing around on me last night at around 1am. In this house cats bouncing around on me all freaking night is pretty normal. I wouldn't have noticed anything different |
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Expatinuk seems to be a Soviet Satellite in stationary orbit over the UK
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« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2008, 03:15:51 AM » |
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Didn't feel a thing!
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« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2008, 05:22:07 AM » |
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It was quite strong at home and the shaking went on for several seconds. I certainly cannot imagine sleeping through it. It is the noise that I always forget about, which was also pretty loud. I live not far from some power lines (we are talking more than 600 feet away) and I could hear them humming for several minutes after the main shaking stopped.
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gennimom
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« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2008, 08:30:32 PM » |
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Wow! That sounds like fun, Scotia! (NOT!)
I mean, I live near one of the most dangerous faults in the U.S., but I'm still trying to get it through my head that there was an earthquake in Britain yesterday (today?).
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empyrean_aisles
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« Reply #9 on: February 28, 2008, 07:17:20 AM » |
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The fact that it seems to have passed most people by can be gauged by the fact that it wasn't even the leading item on the Radio 4 news bulletin that morning. I woke up, groggy & sleep-deprived as usual, and was further confused by a very nonchalant and brief report of an earthquake midway through the bulletin.
Glad I had no animals around to be frightened of the tremors, though. It is always painful to watch animals' terrors at things like thunderstorms. You want to explain it to them, but you can't.
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I just need to have my cake in a safe white place today.
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gennimom
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« Reply #10 on: February 28, 2008, 08:44:43 PM » |
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Animal terrors at thunderstorms? Not all of them! We were out riding one day when a storm blew up. We bolted in doors and had six horses in stalls and 2 in the aisle. Lightning struck two trees 50 feet from the barn. Most of the horses were going ballistic. This one horse, though, was standing with her head sticking out her window watching the storm, with all the appearance of thinking, "WOW! That is SO cool!"
Stupid horse.
Glad to hear most of you didn't even know about the quake!
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