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I'm no Padraig or Marutchi
but I love the conjunction of purple crocus and white snowdrops. The tiny
daffs are beautiful too but forgot to take those. I had my camera in the garden while Spouse went onto the roof to check the security of a chimney pot after last night's 'quake, it seemed to be leaning. It was firm, phew! Mary |
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"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
t... I had my camera in the garden while Spouse went onto the roof to check the security of a chimney pot after last night's 'quake, it seemed to be leaning. It was firm, phew! Oh yeah --- I read about that! 4.7 Huh? Pretty good one. Here in California we get them all the time & it's not too frightening but our building codes are pretty strict and under most circumstances we don't expect our houses to fall down. Glad you came out okay Mary. -- Pat Durkin (Padraig) |
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I'm no Padraig or Marutchi
"Paddy's Pig" wrote in message ... "Mary Fisher" wrote in message t... I had my camera in the garden while Spouse went onto the roof to check the security of a chimney pot after last night's 'quake, it seemed to be leaning. It was firm, phew! Oh yeah --- I read about that! 4.7 Huh? Well, the reports have varied btween 4.2 and 5.6 and seem to have settled on 5.2 or 5.3. Still not great in global terms but for England, where we have very few noticeable ones and building isn't geared to cope with them, it's quite something. Or so you'd think to hear the way folk and especially journalists are going on about it :-) Mrs Next Door (a large Italian lady) was sitting on the .. well, sitting at 1 a.m. when most folk were in bed (as we were) and you'd have thought it was Armageddon come to get her. It woke us with a start and I, for some reason, immediately thought, "Earthquake" but wasn't worried, nor have we been since. This morning I went into the garden and prudently looked at the chimney (the most vulnerable part of a house under the circumstances) and one pot looked to be at an angle so Spouse went on the roof this afternoon to check the flaunching and repair it if necessary. It wasn't. What's more, the pot looked as straight as its partner - perhaps I should see my optician :-) We once slept through a much bigger Earthquake, in Iceland. We were under canvas, sleeping on barely grass-covered lava and the evidence was all round us the next day but we weren't disturbed. There was a lot of noise for a short time this morning at 1 am though, I can't understand why we slept through the Icelandic one. Pretty good one. Here in California we get them all the time & it's not too frightening We, the Fishers, weren't frightened, just puzzled. Spouse said it was the wind rattling our bedroom door, the wind (which had been very strong during the day) had dropped though so it wasn't that and there were no intruders so .... but our building codes are pretty strict and under most circumstances we don't expect our houses to fall down. I don't think anyone's house fell down, a falling chimney pot would be the worst I reckon. But I know that people will make all sorts of insurance claims for pre-existing conditions to their house. We don't approve of that but it won't be from our pockets, we don't have house insurance. No doubt the Elfin Safety people will insist on Earthquake-proof houses in future. Hrumph. Glad you came out okay Mary. Thanks, as I said, there's been little real damage anywhere. One chap apparently broke his pelvis or something when a chimney pot fell through his roof but if that was the only injury it's pretty good, I reckon. Far more people were damaged on the roads yesterday. We ought to get such things into perspective. The garden shows zero damage, the few flowers are still shining through today's gloom, the hens are unaffected it seems and all's right with our world :-) Mary |
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On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:37:14 -0000, "Mary Fisher"
wrote: Thanks, as I said, there's been little real damage anywhere. One chap apparently broke his pelvis or something when a chimney pot fell through his roof but if that was the only injury it's pretty good, I reckon. Far more people were damaged on the roads yesterday. We ought to get such things into perspective. The garden shows zero damage, the few flowers are still shining through today's gloom, the hens are unaffected it seems and all's right with our world :-) Mary Glad you are ok. The only time I ever experienced anything at all here in Philadelphia, Pa. USA was about 40 years ago. It was a tremor and all I noticed at my apartment at that time was that one of the windows slammed shut with a bang. I can imagine the terror in a big one though. |
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I'm no Padraig or Marutchi
Mary Fisher wrote:
but I love the conjunction of purple crocus and white snowdrops. The tiny daffs are beautiful too but forgot to take those. I had my camera in the garden while Spouse went onto the roof to check the security of a chimney pot after last night's 'quake, it seemed to be leaning. It was firm, phew! Glad to hear you came through it ok. |
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I'm no Padraig or Marutchi
joevan expounded:
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:37:14 -0000, "Mary Fisher" wrote: Thanks, as I said, there's been little real damage anywhere. One chap apparently broke his pelvis or something when a chimney pot fell through his roof but if that was the only injury it's pretty good, I reckon. Far more people were damaged on the roads yesterday. We ought to get such things into perspective. The garden shows zero damage, the few flowers are still shining through today's gloom, the hens are unaffected it seems and all's right with our world :-) Mary Glad you are ok. The only time I ever experienced anything at all here in Philadelphia, Pa. USA was about 40 years ago. It was a tremor and all I noticed at my apartment at that time was that one of the windows slammed shut with a bang. I can imagine the terror in a big one though. Many years ago (back in my first marriage, and the children were quite young) both of us woke up with a start - we didn't know why, but we knew something big had happened, it ws precisely at 6:15 am. After getting up and turning on the TV we found out that a small centralized earthquake had happened at that time, in the next town over. We are on an old geological plate and don't get many shakes, when it does shake, it's small, but it can happen anywhere. -- Ann, gardening in Zone 6a South of Boston, Massachusetts e-mail address is not checked ****************************** |
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"Ann" wrote in message
... Many years ago (back in my first marriage, and the children were quite young) both of us woke up with a start - we didn't know why, but we knew something big had happened, it ws precisely at 6:15 am. After getting up and turning on the TV we found out that a small centralized earthquake had happened at that time, in the next town over. We are on an old geological plate and don't get many shakes, when it does shake, it's small, but it can happen anywhere. Boy that's for sure! The largest earthquake in US history was the so-called New Madrid, Missouri quake back in 1812 before the Richter Scale was invented. Most people are surprised to hear this because Missouri and the entire midwest aren't generally thought to be seismically active but that is incorrect. The New Madrid quake was so big it changed the course of the Mississippi River. -- Pat Durkin |
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