Is anyone here being affected by Ivan?

[Birdsnest]

Just wondering if Utopmk is ok, and or if anyone is being affected by the hurricane right now. Let us know if you are alright when you can.

[Laeskis]

Ivan is reaching his grubby little paws into my world and I don't like it. I refuse to go to class in this wind and rain.

[Birdsnest]

If you call or email the teacher, they will probably understand completely, or even make a cancellation. Besides, that rain may be a flood, and you won't be able to drive.

[file cabinet]

utop said his area was affected was by Andrew.
last night I chatted with was yesterday morning, 9/15..
Utop (8:26:02 AM): gnight
me(8:26:04 AM): nite
the last post he made was on 14 Sep 2004 10:58 am
he'll be back... but I heard there were deaths related to tornados in the Alamba area.. :(

[jimkopelli]

We moved out of hurricane country a few years ago... we're affected in that we're happy we're not there anymore. Lucky us. Now we get tornados. At least it's not earthquakes...

[Salad]

I live in earthquake country. We had a 6.something last winter. I was half awake lying in my bunk bed when it hit. It felt like a jet was flying through the ground. It lasted a good 15 to 20 seconds (that's actually a long ass time for a strong earthquake). Then I went back to sleep.

[Birdsnest]

I used to live in California, was in the Loma Prieta quake. The roads literally rippled, and pools splashed their contents out in one big wave. Our apartment complex had after earthquake party, someone brought a hefty bag full of lettuce and another brought some beer kegs, we had a bbq as a stress reliever and it worked to bring everyone together. Its much easier for me to deal with a quake than a hurricane, because I know if you just chose your house carefully, and don't live in the city, or in a brick home or an upper floor, then you have the ability to get outside in an open area and sit down. I feel like there is much more control in an earthquake if you chose where you live. Hurricanes spawn tornados, and those are totally devastating. One girl that I work with said she heard a sound like a train coming, it actually sounded like woo-woo, and came right into her backyard, but didn't touch the house, but it ruined their neighbors house. Now tornados would have to be the worst of all I think.

[file cabinet]

I heard about an earthquake that happened several thousands(or millions..) of years ago..

wait.. you ask... how would scientists know about an earthquake that happened that never recorded in anyone's history?

trees were embedded into rocks!..

yeah, I have no details about it, just some random fact my grandpa(I think) told me and he is a reliable source of information.

[Johnny]

Ivan's not over with yet, unfortunately. I heard that Pensacola took it pretty hard.

[Jezebel]

Even the midwest US isn't safe from massive earthquakes, they're just less common. This actually makes it even more dangerous, because unlike California, we aren't prepared.


Collectively known as the New Madrid earthquakes, these quakes affected more than 1 million square miles. By comparison, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake affected only 60,000 square miles, less than one-sixteenth the area of the New Madrid earthquakes.

Scientists believe that each of the three greatest tremors would have measured more than 8.0 on the Richter scale, had that measuring device been in place in 1811. Vibrations were felt from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic coast and from Mexico to Canada. The quake zone was in constant movement during this period. Five towns in three states disappeared, islands vanished in the Mississippi River, lakes formed where there had been none before, and the river flowed backward for a brief period.
http://www.umsystem.edu/upress/spring1996/bagnall.htm


The next time the New Madrid Fault produces such a quake, it is estimated 60 percent of Memphis will be devastated, leaving $50 Billion in damage and thousands of dead in its wake. Memphis, you see - like Armenia - has looked down the barrel of a loaded seismic gun for decades, but has done virtually nothing to move out of the crosshairs.
http://hsv.com/genlintr/newmadrd/

[jimkopelli]

Didn't one of those make the Mississippi flow backwards for a while? Literally upstream?

[Jezebel]

Didn't one of those make the Mississippi flow backwards for a while? Literally upstream?

yeah, it was one of those

[Johnny]

Amazing.

[Slider]

nah, missed ivan. but jeanne looks like its heading this way. hopefully it won't go back up to hurricane status.