[PRCo] Re: [PRCo]

[Schneider Fred]

Filthydelphia goes first!!!!!!!!!!   HEE HEE HEE.

This is the second one I've been through and they all happen when  
wife is on rampage.   The last one was even bigger ... 4.3.   I had  
hand in our Doberman's mouth trying to retrieve something he should  
not have been eating.   Every hair stood straight up on Toby's  
back.   After that one I had to get out the chisel and mortar and  
trowel and repack some of the joints between blocks in the foundation  
walls of the house.   But we've never had any like my friends in  
southern California live with.   I remember standing in Don Duke's  
home in San Marino talking to Mac Sebree in Hollywood on the  
phone ... just about 20 miles away ... the china was falling out of  
the kitchen cabinet in Bob's place and he was screaming "O My God,  
we're having an earth quake.   That was over 5.

And I remember staying with the late Harre Demoro.   When I arrived  
at his home I asked if the ravine in front his house on Jordan Road  
marked a branch of the San Andreas fault.   He said yes.   I asked  
how often it moved.   He very casually remarked that the chandelier  
in the dining room swings to and fro about once a year.   He said,  
"You have hurricanes and we have earthquakes.   No big deal."   Harre  
also commented that the year before they had the whole neighborhood  
resurveyed and it was considerably shorter than the previous land  
survey ... everyone's property overlapped the people on either  
side.   I think Harre was saying, "Dont s--t the small stuff."  That  
was before the big one that took down the Bay Bridge truss spans.    
Harre didn't live to see that one.

On Dec 27, 2008, at 12:45 PM, BobDietrich wrote:

> Is Lancaster going to fall into the Chesapeake Bay???  :-)
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> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of
> Schneider Fred
> Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 10:51 AM
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> Forwarded from Fred Schneider from Lancaster Newspapers on line,
> Saturday morning.   On the north side of Blossom Hill it was like
> someone dropped a bomb.   The apartment shook and it was only 3.3.
> I thought the water heater went through the roof.   I went outside
> and found the other tenants on the street.   Must have been caused by
> the weight of all that money in store cash registers after Christmas!
> By BILL HANNEGAN, Staff Writer
> An earthquake was felt across a large part of Lancaster County
> shortly after midnight today.
> There were no initial reports of damage or injuries.
> The quake measured 3.3 on the Richter scale and was centered about
> one mile north of Salunga in East Hempfield Township, according to
> the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
> Seismograph readings on the Millersville University Web site showed a
> sudden, short-lived movement at the time of the quake.
> The USGS said the quake occurred at 12:04:34 a.m. today.
> The Intelligencer Journal newsroom was flooded with calls from
> residents of the city and Lititz, Manheim and Mountville Boroughs and
> East Hempfield and Manheim Townships who said they heard what sounded
> like an explosion.
> A caller on Blossom Hill in Manheim Township said she felt "a
> rumbling in the house, like a truck hit the house." She said she felt
> an aftershock.
> A caller from Ephrata said the earthquake "knocked all of the pots
> off of her stove."
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> Residents of Marticville and Smoketown also called in.
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> A newspaper receptionist said a caller from Manheim Township was
> speaking with her mother in Bel Air, Md., when both parties suspected
> hearing "what sounded like a train wreck" at the same time today.
> A woman from Centerville said everybody in her trailer park community
> "felt the ground shake, and their lights went off and on."
> County police and fire dispatchers said they had no immediate reports
> of damage resulting from the quake. No ambulance or fire calls were
> reported following the incident.
> E-mail: bhannegan at lnpnews.com
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