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Vansterdam 02-15-2011 12:11 PM

i feel safe as long as im not in richmond or at work when it strikes lol

Teh Doucher 02-15-2011 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by !Yaminashi (Post 7306182)
Poll question for everyone:

You're lying in bed for the night, an earthquake strikes and you have a split second to react. Whats the first thing you would grab to keep safe?

bottles of water, truck keys, cell phone and wallet. only so i can drive out to calgary and escape all the bs that will follow after the big one.

Teh Doucher 02-15-2011 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Vansterdam (Post 7306276)
i feel safe as long as im not in richmond or at work when it strikes lol

thats my worst fear, being stuck at work during the big one. id for sure get crushed by something

MelonBoy 02-15-2011 12:34 PM

Dam.. I hope im in school.. arent school buildings built to with stand a certain degree of earth quakes?.. also my room is full of ikea shit.. and my table can barely hold up my tv and stuff.. so ducking for cover is gonna be useles.. guess ill have to take my chacne standing between a door (door frames = strong?) lol... fml..

But for sure id grab my cellphone if anything lol ..

Ikkaku 02-15-2011 12:41 PM

Probably grab my phone, netbook and wallet. They're all pretty close to each other.

MG1 02-15-2011 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by MelonBoy (Post 7306302)
Dam.. I hope im in school.. arent school buildings built to with stand a certain degree of earth quakes?.. also my room is full of ikea shit.. and my table can barely hold up my tv and stuff.. so ducking for cover is gonna be useles.. guess ill have to take my chacne standing between a door (door frames = strong?) lol... fml..

But for sure id grab my cellphone if anything lol ..

Not all schools are earthquake proof. What would be funny, though, is a school that has had seismic upgrading done, completely falling apart during a mild earthquake. This after millions of dollars being spent. I mean, tragic. Like leaky condos. Someone didn't build it right - pointing of fingers while hundreds of kids are being pulled out from the rubble.

Being downtown when an earthquake hits would also be an intersting experience. Those newer buildings would just sway like they were in an animation movie.

Leopold Stotch 02-15-2011 12:45 PM

i was eating at 645, felt nothing.

Ch28 02-15-2011 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by chris walter (Post 7306113)
Shit there was another small earthquake last week on the island. Get ready for the big one
Posted via RS Mobile

You know that small quakes are good for us right?

Small quakes relieve the tension built between the plates

BeeBeeAhn 02-15-2011 01:54 PM

Didn't feel anything up here in Squamish.

Death2Theft 02-15-2011 02:31 PM

Heres hoping that it hits the olympic village so all that shoddy worksmanship can go down and be rebuilt properly.

murd0c 02-15-2011 03:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by !Yaminashi (Post 7306182)
Poll question for everyone:

You're lying in bed for the night, an earthquake strikes and you have a split second to react. Whats the first thing you would grab to keep safe?

pants jacket and shoes, I can grab the other shit later. Ban it would be suck balls standing in my back yard in my boxers or buck ass naked. As well my truck keys so if something happens I could take off.

dinamix 02-15-2011 03:12 PM

My gun and iPhone.

It'd be easier for me to get anything I want incase of a public catastrophe .
Posted via RS Mobile

jakers 02-15-2011 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by 89blkcivic (Post 7306142)
Lots of small earthquakes = no big one, so let's have more small ones to relieve the pressure.

Damn it, took this long to get where I am today and now the big one might hit and I lose everything - that would totally suck balls.

Damn you, mother nature..................

Like most old timers, I'm well prepared. Stocked up on bottled water, canned goods, etc. All I need is a good generator.

Not living on the side of a mountain or on a delta. All good.

I guess if the big one hits, I'll have RS withdrawls............

exactly why LA never has big quakes. just small noticable ones quite a bit. Im not to worried. If it happens it happens, you cant live your life in fear of something like that happening

jakers 02-15-2011 04:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by !Yaminashi (Post 7306182)
Poll question for everyone:

You're lying in bed for the night, an earthquake strikes and you have a split second to react. Whats the first thing you would grab to keep safe?

well, everything i need is right beside my bed. Phone, wallet, keys. Then just grab my jeans and jacket from where i threw them right beside my bed....then i would run down the 3 flights of stairs to the door haha. Oh and i would make sure that my family was getting out of the house too and the dog.

Drow 02-15-2011 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by dachinesedude (Post 7306202)
didnt notice either, around what time?

the last "big" one i remember experiencing here was around 2000-2001, remember that one? the school was swaying back and forth after the quake, that was some intense shit, cant imagine being in a real big one (like 7.0+)

in elementary i got sent out to stand in the halls along with my friend because we were fucking around in class. out of nowhere the door beside me started shaking and we thought it was one of our friends teasing us. i smacked the door to tell him to fuck off only to find that the exit sign on the ceiling was shaking as well. we then realized it was an earthquake and fckin booked it under a table. after the earthquake we were still standing outside the hallway for like 10 minutes and we decided to go back inside the class. when the teacher saw us she had the biggest O SHI- look on her face and started apologizing. thinking back to what happened then i realized i missed out on an opportunity to sue the school for some serious $$$. oh wells :mad:

Lomac 02-15-2011 05:00 PM

Didn't really notice anything this morning. Mind you, I was still slipping in and out of consciousness around that time.

Quote:

Originally Posted by dachinesedude (Post 7306202)
the last "big" one i remember experiencing here was around 2000-2001, remember that one? the school was swaying back and forth after the quake, that was some intense shit, cant imagine being in a real big one (like 7.0+)

Ya, I was about to enter a film set when shit starting vibrating around me. Decided it was best not to do so, considering there were probably a hundred mounted lights up in the air at that point. Didn't feel like dying from a falling fill light...

E-40six 02-15-2011 05:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by !Yaminashi (Post 7306182)
Poll question for everyone:

You're lying in bed for the night, an earthquake strikes and you have a split second to react. Whats the first thing you would grab to keep safe?

I would grab my dog, and then cell phone

johny 02-15-2011 05:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by !Yaminashi (Post 7306182)
Poll question for everyone:

You're lying in bed for the night, an earthquake strikes and you have a split second to react. Whats the first thing you would grab to keep safe?

a flashlight... so you can find everything else after.

Prolowtone 02-15-2011 05:19 PM

I feel tremors all the time, wake up to feel my bed swaying a bit in the middle of the night ect. I usually sleep like a brick tho.

Lightscribe 02-15-2011 05:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by !Yaminashi (Post 7306182)
Poll question for everyone:

You're lying in bed for the night, an earthquake strikes and you have a split second to react. Whats the first thing you would grab to keep safe?

My penis.

Jegz 02-15-2011 05:35 PM

Hope a big earthquake happens. Richmond is so boring! :fullofwin:

joxxy 02-15-2011 06:47 PM

didn't feel anything, but I'm in Richmond.
I've felt 8.0 + earthquakes before moving here, and they're scary as shit.
but I'm even more scared now cause of what people say here... T.T

chris walter 02-15-2011 08:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ch28 (Post 7306394)
You know that small quakes are good for us right?

Small quakes relieve the tension built between the plates

Thank you. Now I have been informed.
Posted via RS Mobile

vafanculo 02-15-2011 08:52 PM

When i used to blaze up at night all by myself, i would get into super paranoid stages about 'the big one' lol. Sometimes id get super freaked out haha.

but even now that i dont smoke no more, i still seem to think about it once a day. Even though we are due for the big one, apparently it can happen anytime soon, but 'soon' in scientific terminology is like over a span of a few hundred years, if im not mistaken.

But yea, +1 for small quakes relieving the tension.

BNR32_Coupe 02-15-2011 10:01 PM

when the big one comes, just hope you arent in a concrete building over 3 stories high, or a condo/apartment.

house, wood buildings, or low rises and youre in the safest type of building possible.

when the big one hits, the majority of deaths will be people in downtown, richmond, and condos. unless the earth rips apart and lava spews out right in the centre of lower mainland, we're all going to be fine


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