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Topic: I survived my first earthquake!
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Mike Schindler
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From: Oak Park, IL, USA
Registered: Jun 2002
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posted 04-19-2008 10:33 PM
I had just fallen asleep when it happened, and it was basically over by the time I was fully awake. I thought it was probably my cat jumping around the room, since he's usually the cause of strange noises in the middle of the night, and I got up and started to look for him. But then my roommate came over and said, "Hey, did you feel that?"
So then I started freaking out, not because I thought it was an earthquake, but because the house that I live in is fairly run down and seems like it's about to cave in at any moment on its own. Luckily, the house is okay. It's just the continent that's fracked up.
P.S. Allison, I got another one of your robots a couple weeks ago.
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Tim Reed
Better Projection Pays
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From: Northampton, PA
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 04-19-2008 11:51 PM
Yes, I heard about that, Allison. They can be disorienting. Glad to hear you made it out relatively unscathed.
I remember one we had in Kentucky in the early 80s. It was a Sunday afternoon and I was running the booth at the Kentucky Theatre in Lexington. The floor and walls started shaking, and I thought the 1922-vintage theatre was collapsing. I headed for the booth door and the stairs, but I recall it was very hard to run on the floor because it seemed to be twisting. Later, after it was all over, the manager told me some grumpy old man came out of the auditorium during the quake, looked up towards the booth and groaned, "What's he DOING up there?!"
A buddy of mine was working the booth at another theatre and I asked him what he did when the quake hit. He told me the first thing he did was shut the show down (these were the single-screen and carbon arc days) and start shutting the equipment off. I told him I said to heck with the show, that was the last thing on my mind. I left everything running and hit the door! I figured if the building was going to come down, it wouldn't matter the least little bit if the equipment was running or not when it did.
I remember another quake when I lived in Boston, about 2002... early morning about 7, and I was sleeping. The walls started vibrating and I just thought the neighbors were running an impact drill or something on their side of the duplex, so I pounded on the wall. It stopped, so I didn't think anything else about it until I heard on the news that day there'd been an earthquake.
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