Here I am in northwest Missouri, and am woken up at 7 A.M. by an earthquake O_O (needless to say, this ISN'T supposed to happen lol).
When I woke up my bed was shaking, and I could hear my bro saying that the power poles & street lights were swaying (and my dad was saying other things in the house were shaking, as well).
Apparently there was a 5.6 quake 15KM northwest of a city called Pawnee in Oklahoma, and that's what we were feeling.
I'm a bit late saying this I think, but dang, sounds scary. Don't think I've ever been through an earthquake before, and I'm not sure I'd want to. It's part of the reason why I'm not really sure if I'd want to live in a place like California, considering I hear they get hit by earthquakes a lot.
@ereHemanresUoN, it was far enough away from us that we were sort of in a sweet spot. We got to feel an earthquake, without it's effects being strong enough here to damage anything, so it was actually kind of neat (and luckily, no injuries down in Oklahoma either, only some property damage).
Interestingly enough, last year we felt the effects of another Oklahoman earthquake, though not quite as strong. It was in the middle of the night, and we noticed the windows & TV were vibrating ever so slightly for about a minute (just a slight constant "tk, tk, tk" sound), and when my bro got on his tablet shortly after, saw that Oklahoma just had 4.something quake (may have been a 5.something, but still weaker than today's).
Apparently, quakes aren't all that uncommon in Oklahoma (historically, they may have about 1-3 really weak ones a year), but in the past few years, they've been getting them many times a week (almost daily), and it's suspected that the Fracking industry is lubricating whatever fault(s) they have there. The vast majority of them are still very weak magnitude 2-3 type stuff, but occasionally they'll get something bigger, like today's, which was the biggest in the state's history.
Today, I tried Pop Tarts for the first time in my life. There were delicious, and just as great as everyone said they are. It was the Frosted S'mores flavour.
I second the deliciousness of the s'mores pop tarts. Some kinds are hit or miss with me, but others are simply amazing. ^_^
Earthquakes are strange events when you're not used to feeling them. I experienced one in the middle of the night a few years ago. My sister and I shared a bunk bed at the time, and it plus the other furniture was shaking a bit. At first I didn't know what was going on and thought she was shaking the bunk. It registered as a 5.4. There were no injuries, but some damage near the epicenter.
There was also a 4.6 aftershock the morning after. That made school interesting that morning. XD
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That's not how a pet-owner relationship should work
Yeah, pets shouldn't be on the couch. Sanya's gonna spoil Joey at this rate.
Meanwhile I had a dream that was basically Macross-meets-Starship Troopers (the movie), where instead of pop music, a big element in the fight against the aliens involved taking their raw battle footage, and use it to make propaganda films to help their war effort. Except I don't think aliens got involved at all, I think they were just stuck at the "Unification Wars" stage (which was largely glossed over in most Macross stuff I've seen), fighting to unite the Earth's nations to stop the oncoming threat to Humanity...long story short, their "forces" started out consisting almost entirely of a single advanced air-carrier (kinda like the one the Captain America movies, now that I think about it), and I couldn't tell if the fighters ever transformed, or if they literally were just fighter jets. (I don't recall any ground-fighting, at least, except maybe a ship-boarding sequence) The Carrier's big gimmick seemed to revolve around being difficult to detect, making it easier to fight their guerilla war against all nations that refused to unify (which was basically all of them), and the propaganda films were mostly helping to fund the war effort more than anything else, as they were often advertised as summer blockbusters...
Aside from a big montage involving the military personnel learning how to act, build props, meet shadey businessmen in dark alleys, and pull off dangerous stunts for the sake of better stock footage for their movies while still in the middle of important combat operations, the main thing I remember involved North Korea having a giant skull-faced fortress that housed a giant homing laser meant to take down their fighters ("homing" as in the laser beam itself could bend and split off to chase the fighter crafts). However, it seems that North Korea spent all their funds on building the apparatus, and ultimately had to improvise when it came to the aiming systems: the beams had to be aimed manually by female college interns tapping on big touch screens. It was glorious. They kept squealing and freaking out every time a bunch of missiles showed up on their monitors, and one of them could never seem to decide what she wanted to aim at, jumping from one target to the other. Obviously they eventually got boned by a well-placed missile, and I woke up soon after, while everyone was celebrating (Pretty sure Kimmy was flying away in a getaway copter with the interns, though).
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