Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler what the hell with all those earthquakes latley

just heard of another one in so.cal..hope everyone is ok...ron

cali is about to fall in

jokes, these are jokes...

oh, i just remembered this.. peter, you probably know the answer since you are right there..

i was watching a show last night on how they made and are doing upkeep on the George Washington bridge in NY city. they said the toll to cross the bridge is $6 bucks.. i thought that was kinda high.. then, i thought, i wonder what the Golden Gate toll is..? so what is it..?

not to change the subject, and maybe i am old fashion.. but i think its kind of a rip for them to charge y'all to use those bridges. its like they are forcing you to . its extortion.. sure, you dont have to use the bridge, but then you have to go 60 miles out of your way just to get to where you need to go.

bigjohn

Revalations

You need some punishment for getting nice weather all the time....that's what the earthquakes are for. :P

GG toll is $5. All other bridges in the area are $3. You only have to pay in one direction. I don't see it as extortion. The toll money goes toward earthquake retrofits and new bridge construction. We don't want another Loma Prieta incident.

Oh, and SoCal will not fall anywhere. It's moving horizontally, not vertically, so it will eventually become an island.

I like small earthquakes. Energy released gradually = less energy stored up.

You know, I've been through countless earthquakes in CA, but this was the first time I was sitting on the toilet when it hit. I was waiting for the shower to warm up, and with the water running I didn't hear a thing. Just happily sat there playing electronic yahtzee (I hadn't gone outside to get the newspaper yet), and I thought, "Man, I need to tighten the bolts down on this toilet." No, just a moderate earthquake rolling through. I looked outside and saw the pool water sloshing around. The cats went kinda bonkers--they looked at me with their saucer eyes, "Holy s*#@ , what the hell was that?"

Yes, I have talking cats.

Pools and chandeliers are the best earthquake indicators.

This happened right in BigWill's neck of the woods, incidentally.

Boy is he gonna be mad at you. . .

I'm with Peter - many small quakes are a very good thing.