[PRCo] Re: Weather.........................Anybody Out There?

[Ken & Tracie]

Fred, on our road trip to SLC, didn't we discuss some of the dams and 
bridges built across the Mississippi River since the last New Madrid quake? 
I have friends and family in both the Midwest and the Great Lakes regions 
and I admit, I think about the New Madrid fault from time to time.

Plus all those tornadoes and remnants of hurricanes that cruise through the 
vicinity...:-O

K.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fschnei at supernet.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 10:38 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Weather.........................Anybody Out There?


> It can happen anywhere Herb.  It is just more likely to happen in places 
> like California, Italy, Alaska, Iceland.   I think the most severe quake 
> in recorded North American history was in New Madrid, Mo.  If I remember 
> my geology courses well enough, it was said to have rung church bells in 
> Boston.  But it did no damage because no one lived in the Mississippi 
> River valley yet ... or rather no one of white European descent.
>
> I had my hand in my dogs mouth one night trying to extricate something he 
> should not have picked up.  And a minor earthquake struck here in 
> Lancaster.  Only 4.5 ...  one 700th or so of the one you describe.  But 
> every hair on that dogs back stood up.  And the last place I want my hand 
> is in the mouth of a scared Dobermann.
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> hrbran99 at adelphia.net wrote:
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>> Yes, Camelot until the ground starts shaking at something above 6.0 on 
>> the scale for such happenings. I was in SF in Jan, 1980 and had applied 
>> to both Contra-Costa Transit and SF Muni Railway and WAS planning to move 
>> there. I never dreamed that a frame house could sway from side to side 
>> with such violence and remain standing and that streetcar tracks could 
>> become "fluid" and look like four snakes twisting down a street and then 
>> return to their normal position without being bent. Needless to say I 
>> returned to Pittsburgh.
>> HrB
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>> > SF Ideal for Working, temperature wise  --  Camelot  --  only rains in
>> > the Winter  --  now If Only we could get it to Only Rain from 4-PM til
>> > 2-AM while working  --  Tanfastic!!!!!!!
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>> > Jim__Holland
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>> > I__Like__Ike.......And__PCCs!!
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>> > down with pantographs ---- UP___WITH___TROLLEYPOLES!!!!!!!
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