Another okie quake!

naturegirl · Nov 5, 2011

just now....Wow!!!!

5.2!

fossis · Nov 5, 2011

I think we just had one too.

Fossis...............

naturegirl · Nov 5, 2011

They upped it to 5.6, fossis. Did you feel the one last night?

huntress104 · Nov 6, 2011

was it strong enough to damage anything or did it just shake things a bit? I live in western ky where the new madrid fault line runs. we have had a couple of light ones, nothing bad, just enough to tell you it was here. one shook me awake one morning. didn't know what it was at first. just heard a low rumble. sounded really spooky.

naturegirl · Nov 6, 2011

No damage here, closer to the epicenter there was some. It was Okla. biggest ever! Wilzetta fault, or the Seminole Uplift. New names for us Okies!!! I was in a big quake when I was a kid, so I knew almost immediatly what it was! It's got all us Tornado savy folk around here stirred up :laughing9:

We all thought it was 'cause of the OSU Cowboy's game! Pokes are shakin' things up!

stefen · Nov 6, 2011

JudyH said:
Was in Tulsa when quake struck a few min before 10pm.....shook pictures off wall at my friends home...yikes!

http://news.yahoo.com/usgs-10-aftershocks-following-5-6-quake-okla-163229451.html

Needs to use California Quake Proof Picture Hanging Nails in the future...

stefen · Nov 6, 2011

JudyH said:
I'll be sure and mention that to him....he thought the ten penny nails were sufficient.

Fence spikes are better...come in telephone pole size....bigguns

naturegirl · Nov 7, 2011

Again!!! and for added fun, we have a tornado watch, with a nice line of storms moving through! :headbang:

FarmerChick · Nov 7, 2011

naturegirl said:
Again!!! and for added fun, we have a tornado watch, with a nice line of storms moving through!

good gravy!! hold on and BE SAFE! Hoping all this mess clears up soon for you!

stefen · Nov 7, 2011

Lived in the midwest and experienced floods and tornados...moved to Californis and experienced the quakes...

Would rather shake, rattle and roll than lose everything to floods and tornados...

It's rare that a structure in the Pacific Rim is destroyed by a shaker...

Many the houses built prior to the 1930's were post and pier (no perimeter footings)...

Have owned several and no visible damage in the 80 years plus since built...they have experienced hundreds if not thousands of quakes...

A flood destroys everything in its path...and tornados leaves a path of destruction...and the personal losses are devastating...

naturegirl · Nov 8, 2011

Thanks farmer chick, nothing serious, but I guess the potential is always there, so long as no one is injured this is just exciting to me!!

stefen, it seems we are being offered a selection of natural disters here, with the drought being the most disruptive right now, and maybe it's easing up a little.

thanks for the comments :icon_thumleft:

stefen · Nov 8, 2011

naturegirl said:
Thanks farmer chick, nothing serious, but I guess the potential is always there, so long as no one is injured this is just exciting to me!!

stefen, it seems we are being offered a selection of natural disters here, with the drought being the most disruptive right now, and maybe it's easing up a little.

thanks for the comments

We forget the destructive effects of prairie and forest fires...and tsunamis

rginn · Nov 10, 2011

Yee-haaaaw, drought, tornadoes, earthquakes, ice storms, the convenience store insisting on puttin your beer in a brown paper bag before you can leave, OSU, electin a lady governor, Oklahoma is becomin in every day and every way a better place to be FROM!!!!!! (Kinda kiddin. I halfway know Mary Fallin. She's no David Walters, thank the Lord!)

naturegirl · Nov 10, 2011

yep, she's no Henry Bellmon either! We are now the proud home of "quakenados" and soon to be the home of the Cowboys, National Champs!!! Bedlam is going to be the best ever this year...yeah, I know you're a fan of those squatters, but, it's THIS year. :wink:

rginn · Nov 11, 2011

Actually, I kinda liked Bellmon. I visited with him and he was a regular guy. Plus, he just sat back and didn't do much of nothin, which was perfect for a governor as far as I'm concerned. I ain't actually a fan of OU football, but I like the university. Both my kids attended, and back in 73 they offered me a free ride in physics. (I didn't take that, and it was a little weird to offer me that) OSU is fine and I know a lot of folks that went there, but the big turn off for me is their graduate Garth Brooks. I got to talk with him before he had so much money that it could never be spent. I didn't like his attitude then and don't now. I still associate OSU with that high falutin horses' a**. And my schoolmate Michael Entz, who played Pistol Pete for a while. (Naw, Michael's ok. He's a lawyer, and I have a natural aversion to lawyers. His folks, Clayton and Gloria, were the greatest folks you could ever know.)

naturegirl · Nov 11, 2011

I liked Bellmon and Boren, both schools are good, but way out of reach now for most working folk, UNLESS they get a free ride. It's not fair too hold Garth against OSU!, and I like him by BTW, still waiting on him to visit the foundry..