posted on February 28, 2001 08:08:51 PM
Yes Enchanted, there were more people at the hospitals for the injuries incured at the riots than there were for the earthquake injuries. Perhaps the earthquake was "divine retribution"?
Did they,in your area, show the pictures of the guys running down the streets shooting their guns behind them willy nilly? That was one of my favs. How embarassing.
posted on February 28, 2001 08:34:09 PM
Thanks mybiddness and ubiedaman. It's nice to know that my fellow AW'ers care whether I've been smashed by fallen bricks or not.
rawbunzel, I'm glad you're OK and didn't see any major damage, either. The whole thing about the riots is so ridiculous. If New Orleans can have a peaceful Mardi Gras, why can't we? Why do people in Seattle like to riot? Maybe it's pent-up aggression because everyone here drives so slowly on the freeway.
ubb oops
[ edited by RainyBear on Feb 28, 2001 08:34 PM ]
posted on February 28, 2001 09:02:38 PM
Was that the 520 bridge I saw with fallen rails?...THAT should help traffic!!!!!!
Just glad you are all safe!
What sparked the riot? Weren't all the drunks ready to go home yet or what? I heard a brief mention of it early in the day, but the quake obviously pushed that incident down in the rankings!
Keith
I assume full responsibility for my actions, except
the ones that are someone else's fault.
posted on February 28, 2001 09:11:04 PM
Ubie, that wasn't the 520, thank goodness! That would tie traffic up something fierce!
I never could quite figure out which bridge that was and I had the news on all day.
Who knows what starts these stupid riots? Drinking and drugs I suspect in this case. There were a lot of out of towners [read gang members] here for Fat Tuesday. I think that had something to do with it.Too bad the earthquake didn't hit while they were busy fighting.
posted on March 1, 2001 05:43:32 AMRawbunzel: Sorry I didn't get back to you but I finally decided to go to bed.
I got an email(of course it came while I was asleep) from one of the family in the area and she says everyone is fine, just shook a bit. Now I can stop worrying.
Thanks for your very generous offer. If I hadn't heard from anyone today, I would have taken you up on it.
posted on March 1, 2001 07:54:54 AM
Yesterday was a horrid day for friends and families waiting for news from loved ones in the Seattle area, let alone for the ones living in the area! Hubby and I moved from the ol' family home in the Kent Valley, 17 miles south of Seattle, in mid-November to our retirement property 80 miles north of Spokane. We felt the quake here! I thought it was the local mine blasting, but the animals knew otherwise. All the kids are still living a little south of Seattle. I received one call right after the quake from our youngest daughter, still in Seattle waiting to leave for Army bootcamp on the 13th. My little one was crying her heart out. Before I could begin to console her the phones cut off and I didn't know what had happened. I was terrified for my family. It took hours before the kids could phone us to let us know all were well.
I am so very happy to hear that all the Seattelites here faired well, albeit, a liitle shaken up. This quake could have been so much worse had it been more shallow. God Bless...
posted on March 1, 2001 08:55:42 AM
Yeah my brother in NYC tried and tried yesterday, finally got thru. I tried calling my dad and couldn't. Seemed like you couldn't call in or out of Seattle/WA yesterday..... this morning he said he had the same problem but not for long, he got through.
That bridge someone saw, no wasn't the 520, I think that was out near Tacoma or maybe Oly, I dunno. They did show a good size crack in the viaduct. (I've always been leary of that thing) And something about the steel beams in the new Safeco Field.
edited to say now they make that 3 died from
Fat Tuesday's partying/riot whatever it was, not the earthquake
posted on March 3, 2001 08:19:39 AM
"WASHINGTON - A disaster-prevention program that was credited with saving lives in the Seattle earthquake Wednesday had been targeted for cancellation by the Bush administration a few hours before the templor struck. In the budget proposal it presented to Congress on Wednesday, the administration canceled the Federal Emergency
Management Agency's "Project Impact", saying the $25 million federal-city program "has not proven effective". Sen. Patty Murray,D-Wash., said, "Today, Seattle is showing the nation
exactly why FEMA funding is necessary and the real impact that some of these budget cuts would have for America." Project Impact even helped retrofit bridges in Seattle, she said." --S.J.Mercury, 3/1/01
posted on March 3, 2001 08:46:47 AM
I don't think they 'retro fitted' the Alaskan
Way Viaduct, I always hate driving on that thing, and they were showing damage to the pillars that hold that age old thing up.
posted on March 3, 2001 10:34:22 AM
NearTheSea, Don't worry about driving on the viaduct! It has withstood several major earthquakes over the years and it fared very well during this one! Remember that the media and the city keeps talking it down because they want to tear it down and put us in an underground tunnel there instead.They want to do it so they can build condos there. Don't know about you but I prefer to be able to drive along on a nice day and see the water and the islands to being in a tunnel built in the fill dirt. [You know the stuff that liquefies during earthquakes! ]You will never see that gorgeous view again if they get their way and tear it down.
posted on March 3, 2001 10:38:04 AM
Driving on a freeway is OK, but don't drive under an overpass. You could be squished like a bug and your entrails would be on the six o'clock news.
posted on March 3, 2001 10:58:39 AM
KRS,How true! Squashed just like a bug! The unfortunate thing is that in order to drive anywhere around here you will eventually have to go under an overpass!! EEEKK! What will I do???? Do I stay home or get out there and drive!
Bye! Going drivin' !
"Paranoia strikes deep-into your heart it will creep"
edited to create a space where none had been
[ edited by rawbunzel on Mar 3, 2001 10:59 AM ]
posted on March 3, 2001 07:44:28 PM
I live in Des Moines 16 miles south of Seattle . It's Saturday, I live on the third floor and I have been feeling aftershocks even today. I don't hear about them on the news though. Seriously, I haven't even had my wine yet!
posted on March 3, 2001 07:51:53 PM
Sufi, They usually only mention the aftershocks that are 2 to 3 pointers or more. There may be aftershocks or you may be feeling some of the more than 1000 earthquakes we get here every year. Sometimes after a big one you get sensitized to them.
Are you sure it isn't the jets going over head if you live in Des Moines? I know when they fly over my house the whole thing shakes! They always put the flight pattern over WS when it is storming outside. They come in pretty low then and really do shake things up. They may have changed the flight pattern due to the tower being out at Sea-Tac and maybe you are getting more of that than before?
posted on March 3, 2001 10:57:00 PM
We drove all over Seattle today and it is amazing how normal things look. If you didn't know what to look for you wouldn't know that anything had happened.
I do get a little tense when driving accross some of the big bridges now.
The quake didn't bother me that bad, but after reading the post by Kimbonovich earlier in this thread I'm going to need therapy. Scarry stuff!
posted on March 4, 2001 11:07:16 AM
So unfortunate for everyone in Washington affected by the quake. I was home in Burnaby BC working on the computer when it hit at 4 minutes to 11am, everything shook back & forth even up here followed by a big boom.
Of interest perhaps, that same afternoon I headed down to Bellingham for a mail run, delivering some eBay packages through the U.S. system. My van radio isn't working so I didn't hear that Seatac had been closed down.
One of my packages was a bidder's Birthday gift for someone, I was sending it by UPS overnight service that day, so it would get there. Anyway, all UPS overnights are routed through Seatac. Amazingly, even with the Seatac flight tower out of commission, flights cancelled & delayed, etc., that package still got there the next day before noon, way back east in Michigan.
So I really must hand it to the folks at Seatac, UPS, and Washington State emergency services -- for in spite of all the damage, they obviously really had their act together!
If I hadn't heard from anyone today, I would have taken you up on it.