Those danged Okies have been up to it again. This time it was a 5.0 earthquake a couple of miles from Cushing, OK. That's a junction point for several huge pipelines. Last night at 7:44 central time.
Ma and Pa Cow were lounging in our easy chairs at the time. I didn't feel a thing. She did. Heck, her easy chair is even softer than mine so I'm not sure how those vibrations were more powerful ten feet away from where I was sitting. She was on Facebook at the time. Almost immediately others were posting about feeling something and wondering if it was another earthquake. They were everywhere from near Branson, MO to Kansas City. Apparently my butt seismometer needs a readjustment.
Paden, how are you doing today? Did it tip over your motorsickles?
It just occurred to me..... you may be married to a princess..... remember the old tale about the "quality" of a woman (i.e. princess material) who can detect a pea under a thick mattress when lying on it?
Glad to hear the news didn't report any injuries.
That's a good one, John. I'll be sure to tell her she's a princess.
You don't already??!!:D
[USER=50]@Holy Cow[/USER]
IT AIN'T FRACKING THAT'S CAUSING THIS !
Just ask any Oil Company.
I'm surprised that a Surveyor hasn't been blamed yet! 😉
As for the easy chairs, perhaps gravity may be the culprit with respect to the softness between the two.
Holy Cow, post: 398730, member: 50 wrote: ..Paden, how are you doing today? Did it tip over your motorsickles?
Nope. There's too many crammed in the garage anyway. I'd have to take a couple out just so one of them could tip over.
I was talking to my sister last night. My little deaf shepherd would not shut up whining and it was getting aggravating. I had given he all the normal treatment required to settle her down, but nothing was working. Then all the other dogs perked up their ears and stared at the walls. I told my sis we were having an earthquake. Sure enough, about 15 seconds later the tall skinny legged lamp table started quivering. I've got a tall glass thermometer in the front room full of fluid and I can usually see the fluid quaking inside the glass column. I didn't need to, the house did it's up and down thing for about 10 seconds and then quit. When the house moves we know it's either a big one or close, or both.
Between the dogs and all the junk in the house that moves when they hit, I've got my system down to a science.
About three years ago I had a crew up in Cushing. We were topoing a transmission route and happened to be on a county road out in the flats. I didn't feel anything but I looked up and the power lines were sashaying back and forth big time like a big bull buffalo was scratching up against one of the poles, but there wasn't any livestock within a mile both ways. We watched them and it took a couple of minutes for the power lines to quit. One of the kids on the crew looked on his phone and sure enough, we had experienced a 3.5 with a couple of miles of where we were at.
I'm getting tired of them. We need to ship all this drilling wastewater somewhere else and let them pump it back in the ground for a while.
I have been in 2 minor tremors in my life.
Strange feeling.
First was in South NJ helping a friend of mine who farmed pick kale one frosty morning at this time of the year. Soil is very sandy there and when it happened the ground had a little tremor but we heard his greenhouse windows rattle from afar. Later heard in the news that there was a quake out in the Atlantic.
Second time was in Guatemala City at a very nice hotel in the evening.
I was standing at a marble counter when there was a vibration from the floor and counter. There was some current volcanic activity happening close to the city at the time also. The unsettling thing,pun not intended, was that it caught my immediate attention but everyone else went about what they were doing without a blink of an eye.
I don't know how I would react in a major or minor earthquake. Don't want to find out either.
[USER=20]@paden cash[/USER]
When you experience your house shaking doesn't that screw up the plumbing system and cause it to leak?
(And no, Kent, I'm not talking about the outhouse) 😉
Robert Hill, post: 398753, member: 378 wrote: ..I don't know how I would react in a major or minor earthquake. Don't want to find out either.
Up until a few years ago I had never been around it either. Small quakes (>3.5) usually just make the dishes rattle in the cabinets. A little larger than that and it feels and sounds like a train is passing close to the house. When they start getting 4.5 to 5.0 and larger you can feel the 'wave'...the house seems to jump up and down, or sway side to side. Those are the ones I don't like. I hate to say I live in Oklahoma and I'm good at judging the 'size' of an earthquake by feel.
I've experienced two small quakes so far in my life.
One when I was a teenager. Home alone, had just gone to bed. Don't remember feeling anything, but heard the dishes in the cabinets rattle. Ran downstairs to see what the ruckus was to find nothing out of place.
Second was a few years ago. In a pizza shop getting lunch with a friend. Everybody in the shop heard a noise that sounded like a large truck passing by on the street. No damage in the store. A couple days later, a shelf fell down in my house. Figured it became lose from the shaking a few days before.
FL/GA PLS., post: 398754, member: 379 wrote: [USER=20]@paden cash[/USER]
When you experience your house shaking doesn't that screw up the plumbing system and cause it to leak?
(And no, Kent, I'm not talking about the outhouse) 😉
Haven't had any yet, but I'm sure it could. My old house has a 3" cast iron sewer service from the main that actually turns 90 degrees under the house then turns vertical up inside the walls and the tip of it is the sewer vent on the roof. It has bell and spigot joints similar to VCP. Shaking probably could eventually shake a joint loose I guess. All the water lines are sweated copper and seems to be intact.
Everyone thinks of Alaska and California as being the most seismically active regions in North America, but the 1811 New Madrid quake in your Midwest was on par with anything that's ever been recorded including the Good Friday quake here in '64. Weren't a lot of people around back then, but times have changed. Hope all that waste water disposal doesn't go triggering something bigger.
Williwaw, post: 398768, member: 7066 wrote: ...Hope all that waste water disposal doesn't go triggering something bigger.
It's too late. Our Corporation Commission around here is a joke. They're all on the payroll of the petroleum producer...right up to the State Capitol. The oil producers claim the increase seismic activity is merely a natural occurrence, unforeseen until now because of no actual historic records. Those fortunate enough to have purchased any sort of earthquake clause in their homeowners' policies are being denied claims because they consider the quakes to be man-made. The state government says "we need to look at it more..." Meanwhile every little town in Oklahoma has buildings made of mostly masonry construction...and they're all falling down and becoming inhabitable.
It is only a matter of time until one of these high pressure waste injection wells gets into an aquifer (the oil producers' engineers say there is no chance) and contaminates the water source for 70% of our population that is rural and depends on domestic wells.
I bet the oil companies are buying up the bottled water market around here even as we speak. I'm starting to think a posse, a tall tree and good rope may make a return as indicators of "public sentiment".
paden cash, post: 398773, member: 20 wrote: They're all on the payroll of the petroleum producer...right up to the State Capitol.
Unc, the Nun just paid a visit and said to express her feelings
ÛÏYÛªall earthlings can send probes everywhere into what you consider ÛÏouter spaceÛ but still canÛªt figure out how to utilize free energy (instead of fossil fuel) provided by a ÛÏstarÛ yÛªall call the ÛÏSunÛ, go figure.
FL/GA PLS., post: 398825, member: 379 wrote: utilize free energy (instead of fossil fuel) provided by a ÛÏstarÛ yÛªall call the ÛÏSunÛ,
They do in Belgium...
2.1 miles of solar panels on the Belgium Infrabel rail tunnel are expected to decrease CO2 emissions by 2,400 tons per year.
[USER=20]@paden cash[/USER]
Are you involved with the Plains & Eastern Clean Line project?
Holy Cow, post: 399214, member: 50 wrote: [USER=20]@paden cash[/USER]
Are you involved with the Plains & Eastern Clean Line project?
In a word, no. Nothing directly anyway.
However, one of my clients has been upgrading and centralizing their transmission/ distribution inventory in key areas along the route. There is a large substation array out west (almost on the Texas border) we worked on. And in Payne County near Cushing, OK we rerouted and upgraded 17 miles of transmission. The countryside is getting awfully crowded out there with towers.
It should be a criminal offense to shake good Gin.
Dave Karoly, post: 399225, member: 94 wrote: It should be a criminal offense to shake good Gin.
That's one of those oxymorons...good gin...ain't no such thing. That's like saying a "good gunshot wound". 😉
paden cash, post: 399228, member: 20 wrote: That's one of those oxymorons...good gin...ain't no such thing. That's like saying a "good gunshot wound". 😉
Hendricks is good Gin or Bombay regular.
