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In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019 4:05 AM
Quote:In between business ...
Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Jeez... that sounds terrible.
I can't even imagine how much it would cost to get lawyers involved to fight that.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Eh. What can I say. Assuming all get out fine, my heart would not be broken if this place fell to the ground, or burned to the ground!
Demolition - accomplished!
Let the rebuilding begin! (You can read that as either maniacally optimistic, or deeply cynical.)
Trust me. I feel you more than you probably know...
On Halloween (before the power went out and I was bailing the sump well to save the house), I had already had it up to here when seeing how wet the snow was making the interior walls and I finally got a real good look at how poorly the entire thing was constructed. I called my brother up and the first thing I said was "Do you have any C4 or know anywhere I could buy some?". Sometimes I think I could just make more money off of this house by doing a badass no-look walk away from it while I hit the button on the remote detonator and the whole thing just explodes in a great fiery mushroom cloud behind me as I walk off into the sunset... and then upload that video to YouTube where it goes viral and I get a billion views.
Speaking of all getting out fine though... Did I mention how my oldest and best friend who I just talked to for the first time in years at the party almost died last year? (I think I did). Goddamned building fell on him at work.
That was his and his wife's 2nd birthday party of the night, and they were looking pretty wasted by the time that Uber came to pick them up. I hope he remembers the chat we had about it though. Twice in my life already I've lost somebody I cared about and I've had to live with the fact that I bailed on what would have been my last opportunity to ever see them before it happened. That kind of thing tends to haunt you for the rest of your life.
He just laughed and said "Yeah. Me too buddy." when I said "I'm glad your still alive". But I hope that I got across the fact that it means a lot to me that I still have a chance to talk to him... maybe make up for disappearing out of everyone's lives not once now but twice.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019 4:15 AM
Rain, rain and more rain for the rest of this week.
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019 5:37 AM
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Eh. What can I say. Assuming all get out fine, my heart would not be broken if this place fell to the ground, or burned to the ground!
Demolition - accomplished!
Let the rebuilding begin! (You can read that as either maniacally optimistic, or deeply cynical.)
Quote:My thoughts aren't quite so cinematic. I'd have to be really unlucky for a wildfire to get the house. And though it's certainly within the range of possibility and haunts me every fire season ... ... what's probably going to take my house down is an earthquake. And I have no sense of how that would go. Sometimes they start with a huge JOLT!!! that gets even more intense and violent. But sometimes they start with a few little nothing-quakes as a prelude. Or they can start with a little rumbling that builds and builds and builds ... ... and if the quake doesn't take the house down, it could always go by gas-line fire/explosion. I have an automatic shut-off at the gas meter, but that doesn't help if the line ruptures before the shut-off. So, I have no particular scenario in mind. Other than I want everyone safe.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Trust me. I feel you more than you probably know...
... Sometimes I think I could just make more money off of this house by doing a badass no-look walk away from it while I hit the button on the remote detonator and the whole thing just explodes in a great fiery mushroom cloud behind me as I walk off into the sunset... and then upload that video to YouTube where it goes viral and I get a billion views.
Quote:Kind of a long time ago, I came to the conclusion that if there were such a thing as perfect knowledge, no one would ever make any mistakes.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Twice in my life already I've lost somebody I cared about and I've had to live with the fact that I bailed on what would have been my last opportunity to ever see them before it happened. That kind of thing tends to haunt you for the rest of your life.
We do the best we can with what we know, and what we're capable of.
You did as much as you knew to do, as best you could, at the time you did it. Try not to feel guilty for being merely human.
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019 5:39 AM
Quote:I hope you stay cozy and dry Brenda.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Rain, rain and more rain for the rest of this week.
But I really think that's the kind of weather for sheltering, and for rest.
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019 7:45 AM
Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Eh. What can I say. Assuming all get out fine, my heart would not be broken if this place fell to the ground, or burned to the ground!
Demolition - accomplished!
Let the rebuilding begin! (You can read that as either maniacally optimistic, or deeply cynical.)
Quote:My thoughts aren't quite so cinematic. I'd have to be really unlucky for a wildfire to get the house. And though it's certainly within the range of possibility and haunts me every fire season ... ... what's probably going to take my house down is an earthquake. And I have no sense of how that would go. Sometimes they start with a huge JOLT!!! that gets even more intense and violent. But sometimes they start with a few little nothing-quakes as a prelude. Or they can start with a little rumbling that builds and builds and builds ... ... and if the quake doesn't take the house down, it could always go by gas-line fire/explosion. I have an automatic shut-off at the gas meter, but that doesn't help if the line ruptures before the shut-off. So, I have no particular scenario in mind. Other than I want everyone safe.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Trust me. I feel you more than you probably know...
... Sometimes I think I could just make more money off of this house by doing a badass no-look walk away from it while I hit the button on the remote detonator and the whole thing just explodes in a great fiery mushroom cloud behind me as I walk off into the sunset... and then upload that video to YouTube where it goes viral and I get a billion views.
Gotta admit, that sounds like a pretty terrifying way to live, Kiki.
Is that really where you find yourself dying (of old age)?
My house problems probably aren't going to actually physically kill me. At least the chances are slim to none. Although, the idea of something terrible happening to it before I can fix it up and sell it and having to go to work full time doing something I hate for whatever is left of the rest of my life might make me wish that I were dead. (No joke... As you know, I just got over a scare like that)
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Twice in my life already I've lost somebody I cared about and I've had to live with the fact that I bailed on what would have been my last opportunity to ever see them before it happened. That kind of thing tends to haunt you for the rest of your life.
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Kind of a long time ago, I came to the conclusion that if there were such a thing as perfect knowledge, no one would ever make any mistakes.
We do the best we can with what we know, and what we're capable of.
You did as much as you knew to do, as best you could, at the time you did it. Try not to feel guilty for being merely human.
Yeah... If only you could flip that switch off. I mean... it's not as if I'd learned my lesson the first two times. Nice to have a second chance on the third one. I guess I'll see if I've learned the lesson by now.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019 7:51 AM
Quote:I hope you stay cozy and dry Brenda.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Rain, rain and more rain for the rest of this week.
But I really think that's the kind of weather for sheltering, and for rest.
Yeah. 10 degrees here right now. Low of 7 tonight. :(
Just about out of food unless you count the 30 or so lbs. of brown rice I've got in a pail and a few boxes of offbrand cheerios without any milk.
It'll get me through till tomorrow when it's back up to 28 degrees.
Strange weather pattern we're having for sure. It gets to 7 degrees in an hour or two, then starts climbing all night and morning long for the next 24 hours straight.
I guess the bright side is the coldest weather for a while will be behind us 3 hours from now.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019 10:50 PM
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
This is posted just to flip the website page counter.
Kiki, thank you for trying to get us past the dreck that invades every so often. I appreciated it.
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019 10:52 PM
Dry right now and I am soon out the door to donate a coffee pot.
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Thursday, November 14, 2019 1:21 AM
Gross...
That nice warm weather we were supposed to be getting early next week just disappeared. At least by Wednesday they're saying we should be back up near the historical averages.
It's 26 right now and it sucks. I guess it beats 7 degrees though.
I know I shouldn't be surprised. Chicago winters and all... I just prefer to ease my way into it is all. I don't even want to know what my power bill is going to be.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Thursday, November 14, 2019 11:32 PM
This is interesting to me
Quote:As I was looking at the quake pattern on the USGS website, I noticed three separate clusters forming lines, and two of the lines were at right angles to each other.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-11-13/ridgecrest-earthqu
ake-ruptured-dozens-of-faults
Biggest California earthquake in decades ruptured on at least 24 faults
New research shows that the Ridgecrest earthquakes that began in July ruptured at least two dozen faults. It’s the latest evidence of how small faults can join together to produce a large earthquake, and how those quakes can cover a wider area than expected.
The findings are important in helping understand how earthquakes can grow in the seconds after a fault ruptures ... In areas blanketed by a crisscross pattern of faults, an earthquake on a smaller fault can destabilize bigger ones, beginning a process that leads to a much stronger earthquake.
In the case of Ridgecrest, some follow-up earthquakes came seconds after; the largest one came some 34 hours later.
Researchers discovered the Fourth of July Ridgecrest temblor was actually three distinct earthquakes — magnitudes 6.1, 6.2 and 6.2 — on a trio of faults. Added together, they produced enough energy to create a magnitude 6.4 temblor, said Zachary Ross, Caltech assistant professor of geophysics, the lead author of the paper. The first two quakes ruptured at right angles to each other, forming the shape of the capital letter L: the first to the northwest and southeast, the second to the southwest. The third quake also ruptured to the southwest. The faults ruptured over 12 seconds.
The second large quake, on July 5, was actually made up of four smaller events that ruptured over 22 seconds, producing a magnitude 7.1 event, the most powerful in California in the last 20 years. In that same event, at least 20 smaller faults that intersected the main faults also ruptured, according to the study, making the zone of land atop moving faults wider than might be expected.
“The geometry of this fault network is just incredibly complicated,” Ross said. “These faults are unmapped ... many of them are at right angles to each other; they’re cross-cutting each other. In the central portion of it, they are spaced a few kilometers apart, like dominoes. There’s 20 of them in a row. This 7.1 ripped through all of these.”
So instead of earthquake strain being relieved by many magnitude 6 temblors over a number of faults, “you could just do it in one magnitude 7 by having the rupture travel up and jump from one fault to the next,” Hauksson said.
A modest fault that begins to move in a quake can make it easier for a neighboring fault to rupture, Hauksson said. In Ridgecrest, the Fourth of July earthquakes probably kept on hammering strong spots along seismically strained faults until the larger magnitude 7.1 ruptured on July 5, Hauksson said.
And that they seemed to be extending at the ends.
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It has only been in recent decades that earthquake scientists have understood how smaller faults in California join together to create a more powerful earthquake.
After the 1992 Landers earthquake, scientists were astonished to find that the magnitude 7.3 temblor in the Mojave Desert had ruptured on five separate faults.
As the years have gone by, more evidence has accumulated that earthquakes can and do happen on multiple faults — such as the magnitude 7.1 Hector Mine earthquake, about 20 miles east of the Landers quake, and the magnitude 7.2 quake on Easter SNOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME