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DeeVeeEight

DeeVeeEight

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A 5.8 Earthquake hit Charlottesville Virginia, I felt it here in NJ, what a strange sensation......

I've slept through them on the left coast when I was a kid - this one was a bit more unsettling.
 
I felt it too. Shook the whole building. A little unnerving being on the top (4th) floor and all.

I have an acquaintance in Canada that felt it as well. Serious Business!
 
DeeVeeEight said:
A 5.8 Earthquake hit Charlottesville Virginia, I felt it here in NJ, what a strange sensation......

I've slept through them on the left coast when I was a kid - this one was a bit more unsettling.
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Eh, U just turning into a old woose.....

:yahoo::rofl:

funny, the sandbar felt nothing....

:bonkers:
 
mrvette said:
DeeVeeEight said:
A 5.8 Earthquake hit Charlottesville Virginia, I felt it here in NJ, what a strange sensation......

I've slept through them on the left coast when I was a kid - this one was a bit more unsettling.
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Eh, U just turning into a old woose.....

:yahoo::rofl:

funny, the sandbar felt nothing....

:bonkers:
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They say (on the news) it was felt on the east coast from Maine to Georgia - sorry Gene, no fun for you Fla. guys today.....
 
Felt it here too! Building shook for about 20 seconds or so.

Stock market shot up 100 points after a rumor that the Capital building colapsed with both houses of congress in full session...........of course, only a rumor:rofl:
 
On the news (Fox) someone said that surveillance camera in a grocery store near the epicenter showed that the quake lasted about a minute. Although 5.9 is by West coast standards not that big, a minute of shaking is unusual.

My old house here in Ca is wood frame and stucco. You can't build a traditional brick house here because of the earthquake standards. Wood framing flexes when a traditional brick house will collapse. If you really want a brick house here, you have to build a wood frame house and then surface it with a veneer non-load supporting brick shell. This makes a brick looking house very expensive, so you don't hardly ever see one built after the early 1900's.
 
4 trips to Ca. in my life, but years ago before I would have noticed that, interesting, and understandable...

but here in Florida most older homes, even like mine built in '72 the thing will withstand a hurry cain pretty good, but not a damn tree landing on it....
they are all masonry, but new construction like blew apart 20 years ago in Homestead, south of Miami....it was all frame shit, and here termites and rot are just ASStounding, eat entire wings off houses before they ever swarm...
and the amount of steel hammered into all wood homes to try stopping wind damage is really silly,

be nice if they knew how to fasten a roof down in this state though....

like my house, I cut in a 14x22' room addition about 11 years ago....
when dropping that 2' of roofing over hang off, it was cut, then I went to pry it up, one shove and the whole damn mess came off, 3 tiney little nails holding it on there....roofing nails into trusses was it....
then same thing on the atrium, when I tied that in maybe 8 year ago, same story....nothing holding the plywood to the trusses...

:gurney::shocking::pprrtt:
 
DeeVeeEight said:
That is what Hurricane ties are for Gene. They are a code requirement here.
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Long about 12 years ago they went ape shit here on codes, took them almost 8 years to figger out what to do.....

one of the tricks is the attach garage overhead door, mine is now up to most of the code, as I have the hurricane braces in place on it....but it's from 8+ years ago, and is a modified earlier metal door.....the trick is, the wind hits that door, it caves in, and it then blows the house apart from INSIDE....dig THAT shit....seen the test movies on that....

so they DO require 1/2 inch steel bars from concrete anchors in the foundation up through the top sill plate ~8'+ in the air, about every 3'? or so, there is a younger fellow in Destin, handle is LATB Lars At The Beach he builds houses for a living, and so knows all the latest and greatest, Like I said I took a class and saw some movies, but that was 8 years ago or so....

trick is, for all that damn movie and tie down, them damn industrial strength termites will still eat the bedposts right out from under you while sleeping....

U hit the deck with a huge CRASH, and they scamper off looking for the kids' bed.....

:surrender::hissyfit:
 
68/70Vette said:
If you really want a brick house here, you have to build a wood frame house and then surface it with a veneer non-load supporting brick shell. This makes a brick looking house very expensive, so you don't hardly ever see one built after the early 1900's.
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FYI that's how all houses are built here in QC.
 
denpo said:
68/70Vette said:
If you really want a brick house here, you have to build a wood frame house and then surface it with a veneer non-load supporting brick shell. This makes a brick looking house very expensive, so you don't hardly ever see one built after the early 1900's.
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FYI that's how all houses are built here in QC.
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Brick over frame, common in most new houses, the newer one's across the street from me are that way....OR, dig this, one layer of brick about 5" thick for the garage walls mine are 8x8x16 block at least, with stucco cut in to look like brick....fake brick in other words....all of them on my side of the street are like mine....

:shocking:
 
I felt it in our shop, the floor,walls,and roof were clearly moving, thought I was having a stroke until I saw my rollaway moving. We moved 200 people out and checked the building,no damage. Next up Hurricane Irene,probably just in time for Carlisle this weekend!
 
GTR1999 said:
I felt it in our shop, the floor,walls,and roof were clearly moving, thought I was having a stroke until I saw my rollaway moving. We moved 200 people out and checked the building,no damage. Next up Hurricane Irene,probably just in time for Carlisle this weekend!
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I had very similar thoughts. When the ground started wobbling I thought it was me experiencing vertigo or a severe low blood sugar situation. Then I realized it wasn't me checking out (whew!) and that everything was dancing. We have a sizeable water tower a few hundred feet away and you could hear the water slapping the sides of the container as it shook.
Hopefully Irene will not be as dramatic.
 
Just read in the paper there was a 5.3 quake on the Colorado-New Mexico border yesterday. We felt nothing up here but apparently a lot of people as far north as Denver and south as Albuquerque did. Strongest one in this region in 40 years.
 
JPhil said:
Just read in the paper there was a 5.3 quake on the Colorado-New Mexico border yesterday. We felt nothing up here but apparently a lot of people as far north as Denver and south as Albuquerque did. Strongest one in this region in 40 years.
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Lovely, my sis lives in Santa Fe, burb is El Dorado just south....

Adobe house....wonder if she felt anything....

:amazed:
 
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