Hey west coasters, do you ever get earthquake/hurricane double whammy combos?

[Lasher]

Nossir, all you get out there is namby-pamby earthquakes by themselves and that's it. But here on the east coast we get humongous double dog disasters. It's like a preview of the end times or if Moses was pissed at us because we won't let his people go or something.

Not that we complain, mind you, because we're tough.

[Lucinda]

1. Now where did I put that bag of Jiffy Pop....

:P

[Lasher]

7. Heh. Maybe they'll let me slide if they think it's funny.

:hide:

[Lucinda]

45. Looks like you are surviving!

Well done! :toast:

[Lasher]

49. Yep. Not even banished to the lounge so far.

This thread is on the 'On the Fence' page, meaning it has an almost equal number of recs and unrecs. I guess everybody doesn't think it's as much fun as we do but that's OK.

:toast:

[butterfly77]

76. Here it is

:popcorn:

[begin_within]

2. Our hazards are earthquakes and fires.

[Tunkamerica]

47. we've had fires burning for months here at the beach.

Of course if they weren't before, they're out now.

[madokie]

71. Our real hazards are Tornado's that just pop up

One minute they're not there and the next minute they're tearing the hell out of anything in their path.

[cherokeeprogressive]

77. Here's the difference between an earthquake and a tornado...

For a tornado to form, there must first be a thunderstorm. Thunderstorms are normally predicted at least 24 hours in advance.

The ONLY warning you'll get about an earthquake is the person on the opposite side of the room yelling "HOLY SHIT CAN YOU FEEL THE EARTHQUAKE?" before the shaking reaches your side of the room.

Tornadoes don't just "pop up".

[madokie]

84. Sorry but tornadoes do just pop up

once in a great while you may have a few minutes lead time. Oh sure you have reports that say the conditions are rife for a tornado but its not like a hurricane where you can see it coming for days, Tornadoes are no where to be seen and then all of a sudden there is one coming across the field straight for you. You may know what you're talking about when it comes to earthquakes but you have no idea about Tornadoes. If you do know anything about tornadoes then you just showed your ass with what you replied to me.

[LiberalLoner]

3. It's the great Hurriquake of 2011...

How much worse can it get? I think I don't want to know.

Oh, of course there are floods and tornadoes along with all of this too.

[Lasher]

13. Dogs and cats sleeping together?

Hurriquake, hee hee. I like that.

[Tunkamerica]

48. Mass hysteria!.

[Lasher]

52. Yes it's true.

This man has no dick.

[patrick t. cakes]

4. Portland has lots o rain

and beer.

[LeftyMom]

14. Do hipsters count as a natural disaster?

I'd take a wimpy five pointer earthquake over trust fund kids dressed up like lumberjacks any day.

[Lasher]

30. No points for rain unless you just washed your car.

Or if your car gets washed away by a rampaging torrent.

[Skink]

5. It sort of feels like an underground train coming in.

[XemaSab]

6. Well... well... well...

When did half of West Virginia slide into the ocean? Tell me that!!!! :shrug:

[Lasher]

11. Well ya got me there, We's strangers to blue water an all that.

I was going to say something about mountaintop removal coal mining but there's nothing funny about that. :-(

[jwhitesj]

8. Eartquake wildfire Combos

No hurricanes in California and tornadoes here are minor storms that hurt nothing but a few farms

[calimary]

31. Earthquake or brushfire leading to mudslides later.

And people's houses sliding down hills or into the surf - because perhaps they built in the wrong places? Just sayin...

But we don't have hurricanes. My husband said something about how they aim west, so any action would be away from us on the West Coast and toward Japan/China etc.

[Lasher]

36. What would you call that? A firequide?

Right here in WV we don't get hurricanes. Sometimes a rare tornado but the hills almost always break them up before they get started much. Don't really get earthquakes, brushfires, or mudslides either. Just the occasional carload of people from Ohio and that's about it.

[calimary]

80. Interesting, though, to think how there could be an earthquake fault in just about any area

of the country, just as yet undiscovered. Few knew there was one in southern Missouri (the New Madrid fault) til it went off. I was watching some science show that talked about the probability of the continental US being riddled with earthquake fault lines that no one has discovered or thought to research. There was just some news about the discovery of a subterranean river thousands of feet below the Amazon, I believe. Nobody knew or even had an inkling.

[stevedeshazer]

9. No.

Just drought, volcanic eruptions and plagues of locusts.

And earthquakes.

Like, more than one.

:)

[Lasher]

37. You know, those volcanic eruptions are often accompanied by earthquakes, right?

Hmm. Maybe I shouldn't be so smug in my natural disaster victimhood.

[pnwmom]

10. Don't forget your plagues of locusts. You get those, too.

I bow before your toughness.

(But, seriously, good luck with Irene!)

[Lasher]

16. Thanks, but Irene won't bother us here in WV. The hills and the distance from the ocean protect us.

I just invited some friends from Baltimore to come stay with us.

[LeftyMom]

12. You're in WV. All you have to worry about is inbreds canning you for winter.

You're not going to get storm surge in the mountains. :eyes:

Oh, and that was a wimpy earthquake. Whiners.

[EFerrari]

17. LOL

[LeftyMom]

18. My childhood best friend lives in Weston, WV. I get all my best WV jokes from her.

Her account of her inlaws trying to feed her biscuits and squirrel gravy cracked me up. I send her care packages of miso soup and seaweed (she's half Japanese, she misses these things) and her inlaws make the same face about that she makes about eating squirrels.

[Lasher]

23. What, she turns down biscuits and squirrel gravy?

In favor of soybean fungus soup and seaweed? The horror! Hope those inlaws manage to teach her to eat. Hope she gets another chance soon, when squirrel season opens this year.

[Lasher]

19. The quake still counts, I read we had to straighten 5.8 pictures or something.

Yessir, the Great Hurriquake of 2011. When we tell our grandkids about it they won't be able to sleep at night. After we soup it up just a tad, according to tradition.

[LeftyMom]

21. You should add cannibal rednecks, just to spice up the tale. nt

[Lasher]

26. Nah, rednecks aren't scary to folks around here.

That would be like trying to scare west coasters with hordes of hippies. But take hard work, now that's something that scares most of my neighbors.

[CreekDog]

15. i've never had to watch a earthquake travel at 10mph for a week to reach me

but this is altogether new.

[LeftyMom]

20. It must be like the wait for the fifth spot in the pitching rotation. nt

[CreekDog]

22. huh? you mean the wait for an inning with the 5th starter to end?

but which one? Zito, Sanchez or Runzler?

oh wait, maybe it doesn't matter. :rofl: :wtf:

[petronius]

24. I'm sorry, what did you say? I was trying to decide if I should go surfing tomorrow

or wine tasting - maybe both? - and I lost track of whatever you were mumbling about. Or maybe kayaking along the sea cliffs, that might be nice. Or I could just take the Review of Books down to the cafe, grab a latte, and watch tourists for a few hours. It's a tough call... :shrug:

[Lasher]

29. Reminds me, there's always some guy out surfing when these hurricanes hit.

I like to imagine it's always the same guy but I've read where one or two of them have had terminal wipeouts.

[petronius]

50. It's perfectly safe, I've been out surfing lots of times when hurricanes hit

Not on the same coast, obviously - I wouldn't go near your weird East Coast water if you paid me - but definitely at the same time...

[Lasher]

53. Our east coast hurricane waves are safe too.

There is definitely a slim chance you won't be killed.

[AsahinaKimi]

81. LOL ... 3 pointer from the line ..swish!

I thought I would go stroll around Fisherman's Wharf tomorrow and get one of those Sour Dough Soup bowls of Clam Chowder!

[pa28]

25. You guys are starting to develop a sense of humor. Like it! n/t

[Lasher]

27. Remember when we used ta laugh an' stuff? It was fun.

Sometimes a lot of us take ourselves too seriously, I guess.

[pa28]

33. Great advice.

When you are laughing you are winning and there has not been too much laughing here lately.

[ohheckyeah]

28. Earthquakes and

hurricanes are nothing compared to the constant flow of bullshit and hot air out of Washington. For putting up with that alone east coasters should get some credit.

[Lasher]

32. True, but Congress is a manmade disaster.

I was just thinking of the natural ones. It's the Great Hurriquake! Run for your lives!

[ohheckyeah]

35. Are you sure it's man made?

It seems like everyone who runs for office says God told them to. :-)

Actually, I think they are all lizard people. :rofl:

[Lasher]

38. Oooooh, the nuance! It burns!

[ohheckyeah]

42. LOL...

I needed that. Thanks.

[pinboy3niner]

34. No, it's all unicorns and rainbows out here 24/7/365

Eat your heart out!

[Lasher]

40. I have been to San Diego and San Francisco.

Unicorns and rainbows is pretty close to the way I remember both places. Phoenix in February was real nice too, but I don't think I want to go there in the summer.

[Liberty Belle]

39. I've seen a firestorm fueled by hurricane-force winds. So count your blessings!

100+ mph winds; it burned thousands of homes and was scary as hell. This surely is the worst thing in the world to see coming at you; I took this the morning the fire started and it burned for 3 days. I ran for my life after shooting this, when fire exploded over the hill:

[Lasher]

43. Is that a case of the fire generating its own firestorm?

I've read about the phenomenon that occurred when cities were firebombed during WWII.

[PufPuf23]

61. Large forest fires can generate local weather, even rainstorms. nt

[Liberty Belle]

69. In part, yes. This area has high Santa Ana winds, but the fire also created its own weather.

Some people even reported seeing tornadoes of fire. The term "firestorm" is something most people don't really understand until they've been through one of these.

[rufus dog]

41. Not yet

But it could be a possibility in the future. Sad

[Missy Vixen]

44. We got a citywide riot and an earthquake within 24 hours of each other

Does that qualify?

Check out the Fat Tuesday riot/Nisqually earthquake. Seattle went through it in 2001.

[Lasher]

46. Nope, the riot was manmade. You might have done that on purpose for extra points.

During the earthquake here a couple of Jehovah's Witnesses showed up at the door, but I don't count the second part because it's manmade.

But the west coast does get simultaneous volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. Awesome!

[Missy Vixen]

51. We weren't involved in the riot

A young man died as a result of trying to protect someone else being beaten by the police, if I recall correctly.

Considering the fact that Mount Rainier is still an active volcano (and lots of people will die if it ever erupts,) we may have the double whammy of all time someday. I hope not.

[sabrina 1]

54. Lol, I am on the West coast, So. Cal, but my home is LI

on the East Coast. So far I have not experienced, in the year we've been here, any earthquakes or any kind of serious weather. Back east we know what 'disaster' means, Snow blizzards, below zero temperatures in winter, Nor'easters, Hurricanes, 500 degree temperatures WITH humidity in the summer!

West coasters would never survive on the East Coast! They don't know what real weather is here! :rofl:

[truedelphi]

59. Yeah, but most East Coasters and Midwesterners know how to

Drive in weather - I have been out here over twenty years and the way Californians drive the second the roads are wet still scares the b-jesus out of me.

I think most born-in-California Californians think that if they drive faster through the rain, they will be safer, or less wet or something.

[sfpcjock]

55. Yeah, yeah. We've got a major fault running thru downtown Oakland and the East Bay

underneath a couple of million people. When the Loma Prieta fault slipped in '89 the entire MacArthur freeway pancaked, a section fell out of the Bay Bridge, and the fill in the Marina District of SF turned to Jello and torched some homes. That was like 40 miles from the Bay Bridge.

You wait. We'll beat you ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Loma_Prieta_earthquake

http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=37.04,-121.877&z=13&t=M&marker0=37.04,-121.877,1989%20Loma%20Prieta%20earthquake

[sakabatou]

56. No. We can get floods, fire and earthquakes at the same time

But no hurricanes.

[SoCalDem]

57. quakes/ mudslides/raging infernos/

we have it all dahhhlink:P

[truedelphi]

58. Nope we don't - but we can have our home washed away by

A Flood in April, and should it be rebuilt by September, or October, it can be burned to the ground by a wild fire. Then if rebuilt over the next six months, it could be knocked down off its foundation by the landslides or mudslides caused by erosion from the flood and fires, come the following Spring.

Oh, and we get to pay about twice the amount people in other states pay for housing for the "privilege" of living out here.

Sometimes I wonder why any of us live here!

[Lasher]

64. I couldn't afford to live there.

Sometimes I wonder why a lot of people don't move somewhere else, unless they're tied to their job there.

[Art_from_Ark]

60. Speaking of namby-pamby

That little ground-shaking and rainstorm over there in WV are tiddlywinks compared to the triple-dog disaster we got over here on the other side of the Pacific this past March.

[eShirl]

62. we have a winner, folks!

[Ruby the Liberal]

65. Score!

You win the thread. :D

[Lasher]

68. That was awesome but it was on the east coast of Japan, not the west.

That's OK, Japanese east coasters are tougher just like in the US.

[Cali_Democrat]

63. LOL

:toast:

[Le Taz Hot]

66. Nah,

It goes: earthquake, then fires, then mudslides. In that order. ;-)

[Lasher]

67. I've seen documentaries on the mudslides.

It's like the dirt is resting on a layer of ball bearings, so it doesn't take much to get it moving.

[MadHound]

70. Earthquake/hurrican double whammy, pfffft.

Here in Missouri we've been hit by record snowfall, record tornadoes, record flooding and are now starting on a drought.

A hurricane/earthquake combo is nothing:evilgrin:

[Little Star]

72. Hellooooo. Did you forget that we have also had tornado's with Irene??

:evilfrown:

[cherokeeprogressive]

73. Wow I didn't know there was an earthquake today! Must have missed that...

We get earthquake/FIRE combos though... Try fighting a fire after all the fire mains are broken by the quake.

You're "tough"? Witness the recent post by one of your own about "nastiness". You complain about our lack of concern for your little shaker, yes you do.

This post exemplifies whining.

[dana_b]

74. nope!

wildfires, earthquakes and yes, the rare tornado (my daughter's friend experienced a category 2 in Riverside, CA.)but our cyclones generally are just remnants of something that happened in Mexico (we get heavy rain).

[Cleita]

75. No but we get earthquakes, large brush and forest fires,

heavy rains and mud slides where the fires had burned away the vegetation all in a row and that happens somewhere in CA every year.

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[deaniac21]

79. Piss ant earthquake and hurricane.

[shanti]

82. nope

floods and earthquakes, but not at once....yet.

[Raine]

83. I'm in CA no hurricanes but hot Santa Ana winds cause huge brush fires

earthquakes usually come in hot weather too. I'll stay in CA, we don't have hurricanes here which I think must be absolutely terrifing ... Good luck to you and stay safe! :hi:

[Lasher]

85. Thanks for the good wishes but hurricanes don't come here to WV

I didn't feel the earthquake either. And the fires here are just leaves burning in the woods. Little slow moving lines of fire that you can usually step across if you want to.

Besides the occasional flood that is confined to the river valley, the biggest disaster we get here is mountaintop removal coal mining but that's enough to break your heart.

[LWolf]

86. Thankfully, no.

California gets earthquakes and wildfires. I read Yosemite was burning yesterday.

And mudslides, after the wildfires.

I don't live there anymore; here in Oregon, we CAN have earthquakes, but earthquakes large enough to feel are more infrequent. We DO get wildfires, though. It's currently so smoky outside that my throat is raw and my eyes are burning. A few thunderstorms this week sparked numerous fires.

The east has my best hopes for safety and quick recovery.

[Lasher]

87. She's been downgraded to a tropical storm now.

New York hotels are asking their customers to come back. Looks like all is well. It wasn't a very powerful hurricane but it did track right up the eastern coast, just like NOAA said. Hats off to them on that.

[LWolf]

88. That's good to hear.

:thumbsup:

[Lasher]

89. Thanks for participating in this thread.

Looks like we had a little bit of fun with it, just as I'd hoped. :D

[Bandit]

90. Where I am from earthquakes are the norm as well as storms with well over hundred mile an hour winds

They just don't call them hurricanes. We also have volcano's that are in varying stages of eruption most of the time..Hell we go fishing in fifty mile an hour winds as they are quite common.. Rain is also as common as blue sky is to you folks. We actually live in a rain forest. So while I sympathize with your thirty mile an hour wind gusts and two inches of rainfall I just can't get nearly as excited as you all do..:shrug:

[Lasher]

92. New Zealand?

[Bluenorthwest]

91. Both coasts have lots of hazards. So does the middle.

East Coast just got reminded that they do in fact get quakes. This thread passes over two of the major emergency threats on the West Coast- tsunami and flooding. CA has a levy system in the Central Valley that brings NOLA to mind. 90% of Californians do not know this at all. The OP skips the wildfires and subsequent mudslides as well.
East Coast areas have quakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, and let us not forget, yearly blizzards and super cold temperatures that do cause death most years usually among the elderly, and also close down businesses, schools, transportation, all so regularly that they consider it to be 'normal'.
I know a few people who work in disaster prep, and anyone who feels they are in a 'safe' area just needs to sit with one of them for 10 minutes and hear what they have to say. Life on Earth is dangerous, and picking a region really does not protect anyone. Peril is our natural state of things. No area 'wins' because the planet itself is hazardous to human life, and the best thing to do is be prepared as possible for any eventuality. Because they do have quakes in NY, and even blizzards in CA, although we think of one as being East and the other West, they are both in the Greater Earth Area.
If we were aware of all the perils all the time, we'd never get out of bed.