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

[Fred Schneider]

I don't think we did.

Ken & Tracie wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > hrbran99 at adelphia.net wrote:
> >
> >> 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
> >>
> >> >
> >> > 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!!!!!!!
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Jim__Holland
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > I__Like__Ike.......And__PCCs!!
> >> >
> >> > down with pantographs ---- UP___WITH___TROLLEYPOLES!!!!!!!
> >> >
> >> >
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