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FUBAR
Barsoom
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
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Posted - 17/04/2008 : 23:19:43
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| Oh, I don't know ... half the fun of looking at the forum is to see what LTNS reckons is or isn't national or local news. |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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thedelboy
Discworld
United Kingdom
1085 Posts |
 Posted - 18/04/2008 : 10:57:56
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Got me on this thread under false pretences |
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camelot
Barsoom
USA
294 Posts |
Posted - 18/04/2008 : 23:49:32
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This cat had come quite a way to meet its end in that Chicago alley...a bit sad really after it had made it so far without being run over by a vehicle, or "done in" in some other way. But this is not a Disney story and it could have ended much worse. Ah well…
Perhaps it did anger the Gods however…
Earthquake reported in Illinois
WEST SALEM, Ill. -- Bricks shook loose and fell
from buildings. Walls cracked. Books tumbled off shelves.
A 5.2-magnitude earthquake centered near this southern Illinois town struck before dawn Friday, shaking things up from Nebraska to Atlanta but doing little damage and seriously hurting no one. It was the kind of temblor that might be ignored in earthquake-savvy California.
But the quake rattled nerves across the Midwest as it rocked skyscrapers in Chicago, 230 miles north of here, and sent people scrambling for their TV sets in Milwaukee, Cincinnati and Louisville, Ky., where bricks toppled to the pavement.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/902398,quake041808.article |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
5323 Posts |
Posted - 19/04/2008 : 00:02:11
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| Retribution! Swift and sure ... |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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FUBAR
Barsoom
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Posted - 19/04/2008 : 09:41:27
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But the quake rattled nerves across the Midwest as it rocked skyscrapers in Chicago, 230 miles north of here, and sent people scrambling for their TV sets in Milwaukee, Cincinnati and Louisville, Ky., where bricks toppled to the pavement.
Is this a safety procedure, a bit like "in case of earthquake grasp firmly onto your TV set..."
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I came into the world with nothing and still have most of it left.. |
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thedelboy
Discworld
United Kingdom
1085 Posts |
Posted - 19/04/2008 : 11:35:49
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| now that gives new meaning to "Did the earth move for you darling" |
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camelot
Barsoom
USA
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Posted - 20/04/2008 : 07:46:05
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Originally posted by FUBAR
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But the quake rattled nerves across the Midwest as it rocked skyscrapers in Chicago, 230 miles north of here, and sent people scrambling for their TV sets in Milwaukee, Cincinnati and Louisville, Ky., where bricks toppled to the pavement.
Is this a safety procedure, a bit like "in case of earthquake grasp firmly onto your TV set..."
Actually this is a bit retro..I immediately went to the internet to find out what was going on. "In case of earthquake..log on". We are definitely newbees when it comes to earth tremors here in the midwestern USA... Tornados and floods? "So what, whats new" ... but a good ground rumble and we are hiding under the bed. |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
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Posted - 20/04/2008 : 08:15:37
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| The first decent earth tremor I was ever in was in Beer Sheva (Israel) ... I was actually occupying the 'throne room' at the time and ended up, along with the 'throne', in the hallway. |
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Borninhove
Calaspia
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Posted - 20/04/2008 : 10:32:12
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| We had one here a couple of years ago - I was teaching in a computer lab on the second floor when all the monitors started rocking backwards and forwards. The girls were pretty startled. That evening we turned on the news and saw that the city of Bam in Iran had been flattened. |
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