posted on September 28, 2004 03:43:54 PM
Hey Sanmar, Roadsmith, all U'z on the west coast... I just saw where the ground be shak'n under your feet. You having fun yet??
And I hear Mt St. Helen's is about to burp again.
Maybe u'all should come on over to Florida. We only have 1 more month of hurricane season left.
Better yet, maybe all of us should meet in Kansas!
posted on September 28, 2004 04:02:24 PM
ltray,
Kansas sounds like a great idea. Maybe we can all get together at the Tornado Festival The quake hit in an area about half way between Lucy and myself. I was busy and moving around, so I didn't feel the 6.0, but the cat and dog did. There were several aftershocks that followed, a couple of them were pretty strong. Where it hit, there's not much it could bother. The only people who need worry are the Ebay sellers of china who have large inventories of expensive stuff (like Sanmar), and people who would have been undergoing root canals or vascetomies when it hit
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on September 28, 2004 04:15:11 PM
How about Colorado then?? No quakes here or Hurricanes. Tornado season is over for us. However, their might be some snow on the horizon.
Kevin
posted on September 28, 2004 04:28:54 PM
Kevin,
I certainly hope my wife doesn't stroll through here and read your post. After the sweltering summer we've had, if she sees the word snow, she'll have us on a plane to Colorado in about 2 hours. It's 85 degrees outside now, which is a cool day compared to what it's been for the last 4 months.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
Yeah, I felt it. Not a big deal. The trash bins outside were wiggling around is about all.
No power outage, not even a momentary. There were a couple of little aftershocks.
Parkfield is in the boondocks east of Paso Robles. Near Cholame. That's where James Dean wrapped his motorcycle around a post or tree or whatever it was.
posted on September 28, 2004 04:57:29 PM
I think he wrapped it around a piece of farm equipment going down the road or crossing it.
It was a mild jello wiggle in Fresno. The Long Valley caldera has been jiggling a lot recently. Mt. St Helens may take a while it's a slow pot to boil.
posted on September 28, 2004 06:01:56 PM
My first car was pretty snazz... Wish I had it now - I'd sell it on eBay. His Spyder probably would have shut me down taking off from a dead stop but I'm not sure he could have if the flag dropped at, say, 60mph.
Top speed was 140+. I had piles of fun racing it over Mulholland and on the 101 out towards Malibu.
Ahh.... those were the days.
Here's a link to a picture of a car just like the one I had. Except mine was robin's egg blue. Okay, so it wasn't an "official" color. Too bad! I'd post the image but it's copyrighted.
posted on September 28, 2004 06:33:10 PM
MsLucy, I want your old car!!!! I only had a 69 Chevy SS. I sure do miss that car sometimes, but I blew the block on it and gave it up for a new '77 mustang.
Funny, that nice redheaded lady with glasses I saw on your ME page did not look like a gear head to me.
But i guess my grandkids wouldn't believe what I was like at 21 either,lol!
[ edited by ltray on Sep 28, 2004 06:34 PM ]
I really was pretty good at the gear work. I could double-clutch all the way down into first gear, which had no synchro-mesh. So I could turn a corner and roar off in a cloud of dust!
I got my only ever in history ticket driving that car. Going over Sepulveda Pass, my sister was with me. We were on our way to a ZBT party at UCLA. Deanna said, "Lucy, you're driving like an old grandma, put your foot in it!" So I did...
Double-clutching through the hairpins I hit the dirt (just a little bit...) The cop who stopped me said if I hadn't done that he wouldn't have pulled me over. Said he clocked me doing 58 in a 35!
Alas, alas, since I wasn't yet 18 they couldn't charge me a fine so they took my license away. I could drive to work only for, I think, three-four months. What a bummer!
posted on September 28, 2004 07:15:43 PM
Ah,,My,,,,,,,ah,,,kinda,,,,well,,,,HEY I was like ya know, 16,,,,I got ah, well,,,,how do I say,,,,,it was a,,,,,,1949 Plymouth Business Coupe....hahahaha.....HEY! It had a HUGE Trunk! I was like thinkin' ,,,,,hmmmmm,,,I could get like 5 kids in the trunk and ssssssssneak em' in,,,,you KNOW! The Drive in Theatre! hahahah. buck a pop! that car NEVER got out of the drive way. I learned about Sparkz,,,yikes! 12 volts! Electricity! MORE that I EVER learned in electricity 101 class in High school,,,,,,,this was fingers ON experience,,,,,ZAP!!!!! I drove it back and forth,,,back and forth in the drive way,,,I paid a whoppin' $50.00 fer that heap! I turned 17 and have NO idea whatever happened to that car,,,,,and that's not the last car I have no idea where it is either.......meaning NEVER saw any money BACK in my hands.....Drive em' and leave em' hahahahahaha.
posted on September 28, 2004 07:22:05 PM
Wish letting go of the Chevy had stopped my friendship with the boys in blue. The little green mustang got clocked at 110 one night. Luckily, since I was a starving student, the judge let me off with a lecture and a fine instead of jail time.
And Mommas think they have to worry about their boys, lol!
posted on September 28, 2004 07:50:03 PM
my first car was an Austin America. I went looking for a picture of one and just spent an hour or two reading a website on them.
Synchromesh transmission - meaning you could shift it or leave it in automatic shift. Along with the Mini, the Austin America is credited with being the first mass produced front wheel drive passenger car. And, a car that ultimately set a design standard by which "economy" cars still follow.
posted on September 28, 2004 08:01:56 PM
Sparkz,
Funny you mentioned root canal during the earthquake, today my hubby was in the dentist's chair getting a root canal when the dental tray with the instruments started rattling around. He's apprehensive about dental visits and this one will be remembered for sure.
On the older car subject, my first car was a brand new 1970 (yes, I am older than the hills) bright yellow Mach I with black racing stripes that had a 3 something (357 maybe?) Cleveland engine. I grew up with 5 boys (2 are racecar drivers) and they picked out my first car. Got my first ticket less than a week after getting that darn fast thing!
posted on September 28, 2004 08:13:28 PM
Lucy...I can sure understand your dilema with that cop. Just before I turned 18 I was coming back into Porterville via the Old Stage Road (the one that comes through the east edge of Terra Bella) at a pretty fast clip in my '57 Olds when a Highway Patrolman took exception to my speed and started to follow me. I would have been in the same predicament you were in except I did one thing different than you did. Hehheh, I put the petal to the metal and outran him. No way could that anemic Dodge catch up with that Olds
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on September 28, 2004 08:31:40 PM
Lucy,
Actually, I did pull into an orange grove east of Porterville State Hospital and blacked out for about an hour until I felt it was safe to go. I took the back roads home
Minniestuff,
I wonder how many people were in a dentist chair with a drill in their mouth when that thing hit? Or, how many were having a tattoo applied at the time? Those are the traumatic cases that FEMA never reports and you never see in the news.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on September 28, 2004 08:39:55 PM
sthoemke...I live about a quarter inch from the top right corner of the blue square. The very long pink line that runs through the center of that square is the San Andreas Fault. It's the one that opens up and swallows visitors from the east coast alive. We're trying to teach it to recognize NPB's.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on September 28, 2004 09:41:51 PM
I wonder what type of compensation Fema has for those messed up vasectomies?? How manyof you guys turned green when Sparkz mentioned it, lol.
posted on September 28, 2004 10:31:13 PM
ltray...I'm wondering about all the people in the tattoo parlors. Can't you imagine the shock of those who wanted a dainty yellow rose on their butt, and wound up with a two foot babboo pole running up the center of their back?
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on September 29, 2004 06:16:34 AM
Reminds me of one of the lines from "All in the Family" that I remember. Archie talking about an earthquake in California says, "It's some saint's fault."
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“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
The quake hit in an area about half way between Lucy and myself. I was busy and moving around, so I didn't feel the 6.0, but the cat and dog did. There were several aftershocks that followed, a couple of them were pretty strong. Where it hit, there's not much it could bother. The only people who need worry are the Ebay sellers of china who have large inventories of expensive stuff (like Sanmar), and people who would have been undergoing root canals or vascetomies when it hit 
