[Sca-cooks] OT:Earthquakes, was Weather in Oertha

[Terry Decker]

> I can understand that, but tornados last longer than and earthquake and 
> leave greater destruction
> in a more consentrated
> area than earthquakes.  I have lived 54 years in Los Angeles.
> I have felt many earthquakes, but have never had my house or
> place of business damaged by one.  Yes, I have had to pick up
> a lot of books that were shaken off bookshelves, and picked up
> a few knicknacks up at home, but that was the extent of my
> experience.  Yes, I have seen places that have been damaged,
> but if you were to put all of the places together in one place,
> it is my humble opinion, the damage would be smaller than
> the path of a tornado, or at least in current times.  The
> majority of the damage from the Great Quake of '06 in San Francisco was 
> from fire, not earthquake.
>>

There tend to be lots of tornados that never reach the ground or tear up a 
little dirt with no great destruction.  When someone gets hit by one, it's 
like being unlucky enough to be at the epicenter of an earthquake.  Unlike 
earthquakes, I've never seen a tornado powerful enough to tear up a super 
highway.

Damage from a tornado tends to be of three types.  Structural damage from 
direct contact with the tornado, damage from flying debris and water damage 
from rain falling on the damaged buildings.  The pictures they tend to show 
on the news usually are of the first type.  News channels like devastation, 
it's more photogenic than the others.

I think you will find the death and destruction from earthquakes outweighs 
that of tornadoes, but a deadly tornado is a yearly occurence while deadly 
earthquakes may be a decade of more between.  To be honest, I would prefer 
to avoid both, but both are survivable if you know and have the time to 
follow the safety rules.


>> My latest missed disaster was a fire last week that burned out most of 
>> the
>> building where I have a storage unit.  Fortunately, the fire was stopped
>> about 15 feet from where my stuff was stored.
>
> I am so glad that you were spared that.  Hopefully, none of your
> stuff was water damaged?
>
> Huette

My stuff appears to have a fine layer of soot on the boxes, which probably 
condensed out of the smoke when they hosed down the roof.  There are some 
water spots, but apparently they didn't have to soak things.

Bear