[Rhodes22-list] USGS Earthquake Information

[Brad Haslett]

Rummy,

My former renter is now in Japan as a consultant but one of his
research projects he was trying to get funding for was putting video
cameras on farm animals in Arkansas.  I pissed him off one night at
dinner by explaining to him "of course animals know when a quake is
coming, the Chinese have know this for about four thousand years, why
don't you just ask"?  I think is was a money thing.

My first wife is a nurse in Little Rock who works for the state and
has participated in several contingency drills.  The bridges across
the Mississippi may fall into the river and medical emergencies will
have to be evacuated east and west, deeper into the respective states.
 The New Madrid is the largest fault line in North America.  Unlike
California where there are frequent quakes that relieve the pressure,
the New Madrid goes off every 200, 500, 1000 years?  We have another
friend at Cornell that is pursuing a theory that the Mississippi basin
is a result of an ancient earthquake.

Our contingency plan is to grab all the bottled water, the .40 cal
Glock, and as much food as possible and head for the sailboat 90 miles
east until the National Guard arrives.  If the damn breaks, then off
to the Bonanza and down to the 'tin can' we call corporate
headquarters on the MS Gulf.

Brad



On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 7:26 AM,  <R22RumRunner at aol.com> wrote:
> Our earthquake insurance only cost us $40.00 per year. Very few people
> remember the earthquake that rattled Charleston, SC, but it is on the Savannah
> river fault. We live on Lake Hartwell which is the beginning of the Savannah
> river. My agent though I was nuts at the time, but we've had several small jolts
> over the years and I think he has become a believer. It's a small price for
> peace of mind.
> The USGS service has moved several teams to the Arkansas area because of
> recent activity. Hopefully you won't have to cash in on your policy.
>
> Rummy
>
>
> In a message dated 12/10/2008 8:20:30 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> flybrad at gmail.com writes:
>
> Rummy,
>
> As a matter of fact I do.  We had to go with a  separate company
> because AllState cancelled ours after Katrina (too much  exposure). My
> agent tried to keep me by saying "the chances of an  earthquake here is
> infinitesimally small", to which I replied, "then why  worry about the
> exposure"?
>
> My wife came here on a graduate  scholarship to study geophysics at the
> Memphis Earthquake Center and wrote  her Masters thesis on research of
> the New Madrid Fault. Her adviser left to  head the USGS here and
> recently moved to Denver with his wife, both  Stanford PhD's in
> geophysics. We have no excuse for not being aware of the  dangers.
>
> The reason I pay $400 for earthquake insurance is not to  rebuild, but
> to move.  If you think New Orleans and the MS Gulf Coast  is slow
> recovering, you ain't seen 'nuthin' yet.  I want the option of  bugging
> out of town.  The last time there was "a whole lotta shakin'  going on"
> from New Madrid it rang church bells in Boston and the  Mississippi
> River flowed backward for two days (creating Reelfoot  Lake).
>
> Brad
>
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 7:04 AM,   <R22RumRunner at aol.com> wrote:
>> Brad,
>>
>> Do you have  earthquake insurance. If not, you might want to check into
> it.
>>
>>
> _http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Maps/US10/32.42.-95.-85.php_
>>
> (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Maps/US10/32.42.-95.-85.php)
>>
>>  Rummy
>> **************Make your life easier with all your friends,  email, and
>> favorite sites in one place.  Try it now.
>>
> (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000010)
>>  __________________________________________________
>> To  subscribe/unsubscribe or for help with using the mailing list go to
> http://www.rhodes22.org/list
>>  __________________________________________________
>>
> __________________________________________________
> To  subscribe/unsubscribe or for help with using the mailing list go to
> http://www.rhodes22.org/list
> __________________________________________________
>
>
> **************Make your life easier with all your friends, email, and
> favorite sites in one place.  Try it now.
> (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000010)
> __________________________________________________
> To subscribe/unsubscribe or for help with using the mailing list go to http://www.rhodes22.org/list
> __________________________________________________
>