Just felt it here in Dillon MT- ?ÿfelt as far way as Missoula I guess waiting for more news- ?ÿotherwise cooking elk steaks in the cast iron in 5 minutes
6.5 about 22 miles north of Stanley Idaho. Lost a few items off shelves in Boise..
Stanley Idaho, home of Stanley Consultants Inc. They are the group that launched me into private practice. I was a VP of Surveying at a Engineering and Surveying company in West Palm Beach when the Owner decided to sell to Stanley. Five years prior I had left ITT Community Development Corporation (developing Palm Coast, FL) mainly because of career advancement opportunity but also because of corporate bureaucracy. I refuse to work for someone where you spend half your time filling out phone conversations, time sheets, copies of correspondence sent to everybody and their brother, record of how many copies made and how much paper was used (wasted) etc. That ain't my cup 'o tea so I said the hell with this, cashed out my stock and started my own no bureaucracy company where you can come to work in shorts and a t-shirt and flip flops of course. Best decision of my life. ?????ÿ?ÿ
@flga
One of the schools I taught at solved part of your bureaucracy problem. At the beginning of each semester, each teacher was given 6 reams of printer paper. So we didn't have to report on that, but number of copies by copier code was reported every month. If you bought some paper on your own, you could still be called on the carpet for exceeding the six-ream limit through the copier.
Never mind the teaching, just keep those copier costs under control. What the higher-ups never figured out was that the custodial staff was printing their church bulletins every week when the building was empty and they all went to different churches. Who said church was gone from schools.
Now if ITT Community Development had just used innovative ways like our high school ....
Both of those towns look like great places to live...Dillon, MT, Stanley, ID. Glad y'all are safe and no issues.
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Stanley, Idaho population 63 in 2010, down from 100 in 2000.?ÿ Practicing social distancing since the 1800's.?ÿ The population density for Custer County is 0.88 persons per square mile.
Sounds like the kind of place where having a four month supply of everything on hand at all times would be considered normal.?ÿ I like it.
You know it's a low population area when the epicenter of an earthquake is described from the nearest town, which is over twenty miles distant and has a population of about 50.?ÿ All in all, probably a good place for an earthquake, if there has to be an earthquake.
That 0.88 persons per square mile reminds me of Sheriff Andy Taylor trying to explain to his son, Opie, how half a boy is a ratio, but Opie has never seen half a boy, let alone one named Horatio.
I had a memorable breakfast in Stanley about 20 years ago.?ÿ I no longer recall the name of the place, but the breakfast was great!
Sounds like a great place for a beerleg convention.?ÿ
Well I screwed up again. Old people (like Holy Cow) have a tendency to substitute places during the recall process, therefore I apologize for an error in my previous post. Stanley Consultants is in Muscatine Iowa, not Stanley, Idaho. Simply a minor neurotransmission synaptic anomaly. Happens all the time. One of the reasons millenials want everyone over 60 croaked. ???? ?ÿ
@flga
It's ok. An Ensure and a nap usually makes me feel better.... 😉
@flga
Quit sprinkling loco weed on your Post Toasties.
I never get discombobulated, Trimble Man.
Have three 50-lb blocks of salt with trace minerals within 50 feet. A lick now and then never hurt anyone. :silly: :silly:
@holy-cow?ÿ Worked for Boise National Forest in the seventies based out of Lowman, Id. & a weekend trip to Stanley (60 miles) to spend an evening at the Rod-N-Gun Saloon (loosely checked IDs) and stock up on liquor at the Mercantile was a rite of passage we'd perform at least once a season.
Stanley would be a great place to live although the weather is quite brutal:?ÿ "Stanley has an alpine?ÿsubarctic climate?ÿwith very cold winters and warm summers with a very large?ÿdiurnal temperature variation. Frosts can occur at any time of the year. There are on average 290 mornings in the year with frost (10 of them in July) and 60 nights that reach 0?ÿ?øF (??17.8?ÿ?øC).[18]?ÿThe cold weather is due to Stanley??s location in a protected valley that traps cold air from the surrounding mountains, creating strong?ÿtemperature inversions."
Concerning the quake, the "Big One" for Idaho was the '83 Borah Peak Earthquake; an amazing slip fault which altered the local hydrology and even affected the eruption intervals of?ÿOld Faithful?ÿgeyser in?ÿYellowstone National Park, about 150 miles (240 km) east, which were noticeably lengthened.
I was on the 4th or 5th floor of the Ramada Inn in Boise when the 83 Borah Peak Quake hit (it was quite a ride). Later that day I drove to Ketchum Idaho for field work (Mineral Survey Retracement) around the Sun Valley area. A few days later I took the "scenic route" back to Salt Lake via Stanley, Challis, Mackay, and past Borah Peak. The Displacement along the range front was AWESOME to say the least.
Loyal
Quit sprinkling loco weed on your Post Toasties.
Nah, I don't eat it, it takes too long for lift off. ?????ÿ
@loyal Yep, it was pretty big deal. I'd moved to Seattle by then and suffered no ill effects, but touring the area a decade later was an eye opener. As we all are surveyors tectonic (or earthquake) shifts are interesting. Imagine you've done a parcel survey and the ground shifts 3 feet, what you gonna do during resurvey? I'd guide you to scholarly & technical tomes but the best Google is searching "The 1964 Alaska Earthquake."
Spent a week In Dillon a few years ago doing UXO project west of town.?ÿ Brought my Flyrod to fish the Beaverhead in between work.?ÿ I remember when I approached the bank, what I thought were chunks of water soaked logs were big ass trout. Learned about the Montana Stream Access Laws, and fell in love with them.?ÿ Beautiful country, glad you weren't taken out by the BIG one yet......
