Good start to a Sunday morning, nice little tremor to shake the hell out of everything ,, :wacko3:
Quote from: fj11.5 on January 12, 2013, 02:52:24 PM
Good start to a Sunday morning, nice little tremor to shake the hell out of everything ,, :wacko3:
I am not seeing on the earthquake sites yet, how big was it?
Not sure on the richter scale , maybe .5 lol , apparently it started out at sea ( bass straight )
Quote from: fj11.5 on January 12, 2013, 03:26:28 PM
Not sure on the richter scale , maybe .5 lol , apparently it started out at sea ( bass straight )
0.5!!! 0.5!!!! You can't even feel a 0.5!!! :ireful: A 0.5 happens when you forget your clutch slave is off, start your FJ, the clutch push rod spears the cat and as the rod imbeds into the far wall the thump it makes is registers as a 0.5... :diablo:
Maybe I am taking this a little too far, where I live a 3.0 might make the news, and a 4.0 might be noticed. I hope the natives did not sacrifice anything important to prevent a 1.0... :lol: :lol: :lol:
Glad no FJs were hurt....
Haha , sorry to get your hopes up mate ,, guess you guys are used to big quakes ,, tremors only happen every 15/20 years down here on the small island ,, the girls of the house were getting ready to go out , think they left stains in the carpet :lol:,, I was laying in bed with my little bloke watching a dvd, he didn't even ask what the noise/shaking was , guess he figured it was just a large truck on the very close highway :boredom: , no cats were harmed :ireful: dam it ,, and all Fj,s still standing, although effie had spun around on the steel plates under the c stand ,,, , must be my longest post ever, do I get a medal , or a chest to pin it on :biggrin:
Quote from: fj11.5 on January 12, 2013, 03:55:39 PM
,,, , must be my longest post ever, do I get a medal , or a chest to pin it on :biggrin:
I suspect Doug could arrange something to be presented at the 013 rally :yahoo:
Quote from: FJmonkey on January 12, 2013, 03:35:25 PM
Quote from: fj11.5 on January 12, 2013, 03:26:28 PM
Not sure on the richter scale , maybe .5 lol , apparently it started out at sea ( bass straight )
0.5!!! 0.5!!!! You can't even feel a 0.5!!! :ireful: A 0.5 happens when you forget your clutch slave is off, start your FJ, the clutch push rod spears the cat and as the rod imbeds into the far wall the thump it makes is registers as a 0.5... :diablo:
Maybe I am taking this a little too far, where I live a 3.0 might make the news, and a 4.0 might be noticed. I hope the natives did not sacrifice anything important to prevent a 1.0... :lol: :lol: :lol:
Glad no FJs were hurt....
Have no idea what is normal in California but experienced a 6.5 in Mexico City on December 10/2011. Quite an experience. Felt like I was surfing.
:lol: something like a stuffed cat speared with a clutch rod , , speaking of the rally , going to have an Fj gymkahana ??? :biggrin:, rbt performed on the winners , , can't have sober ppl taking all the trophy,s
It is a minor one, 1.8
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/minor-earthquake-hits-melbournes-eastern-suburbs/story-e6frg6n6-1226552616614 (http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/minor-earthquake-hits-melbournes-eastern-suburbs/story-e6frg6n6-1226552616614)
Quote from: 93fj1200 on January 12, 2013, 04:14:45 PM
Have no idea what is normal in California
No one does, they are weirdo's out that way. I just spent the week in San Francisco and can confirm this.
Dan
Quote from: Dan Filetti on January 12, 2013, 05:16:43 PM
Quote from: 93fj1200 on January 12, 2013, 04:14:45 PM
Have no idea what is normal in California
No one does, they are weirdo's out that way. I just spent the week in San Francisco and can confirm this.
Dan
I have to experience it first hand next weekend. :unknown:
I was living in Southern California in 1994 when the 6.7 Northridge quake hit. The damage was unbelievable.
remember seeing that quake on the news, , makes me wonder why ppl build on fault lines :wacko1:
Quote from: aviationfred on January 12, 2013, 06:24:40 PM
I was living in Southern California in 1994 when the 6.7 Northridge quake hit. The damage was unbelievable.
The Northridge quake exposed a second and until then unknown fault line. It ran under Santa Clarita where I was busy trying to sleep off a long night of driving back from Northern Arizona where I spent a very relaxing week in a cabin. The fault under me was a thrust fault, meaning the motion was up and down. It felt like the entire building (world) was picked up 3 feet (1M) and slammed back down every second. Very violent and end of the world feeling. The building held together and the suit case filled with booze was unharmed, our neighbors were happy to partake and make sure none was left for the aftershocks to damage. Turns out it was good that I was also handy with repairing gas lines and got the entire building hot water a week or two faster than expected. What a shaker...
That Melbourne quake was 12 hours before todays little effort , , , at least your booze was safe monkey man,
Quote from: fj11.5 on January 12, 2013, 08:26:30 PM
That Melbourne quake was 12 hours before todays little effort , , , at least your booze was safe monkey man,
Kind of safe, just not for my consumption. But it did go to a good cause and some of my neighbors felt more after shocks than actually happened. Too bad it was damn cold, everyone stayed covered up. And no "At a Boys" for getting the gas turned back on either.... No good deed goes unpunished....
Hell mate, if you had done the same down here you would of been kept in beer and steaks for weeks :good2:
Quote from: fj11.5 on January 12, 2013, 08:42:20 PM
Hell mate, if you had done the same down here you would of been kept in beer and steaks for weeks :good2:
The more I know the Aussie folk, the more I think I was born in the wrong place. I really need to make the 2014 rally.
Don't worry , we have ungrateful bastards here too :biggrin: so don't feel left out ,, with you on the rally, I need to make this years, I'm a virgin rally goer :shok:,, wanted to go to a bike rally since starting riding , just never made one, life got in the way :scratch_one-s_head: as it does
Earth tremor? I was expecting some kind if a strange sex story from Klavdy... (popcorn)
Quote from: FJmonkey on January 12, 2013, 08:45:45 PM
Quote from: fj11.5 on January 12, 2013, 08:42:20 PM
Hell mate, if you had done the same down here you would of been kept in beer and steaks for weeks :good2:
The more I know the Aussie folk, the more I think I was born in the wrong place. I really need to make the 2014 rally.
mate I would hate for you to get the wrong impression about Australia , it's not all beer and streaks, some times we have chicken and champagne :nyam1:
Quote from: FJSpringy on January 13, 2013, 01:07:27 AM
Quote from: FJmonkey on January 12, 2013, 08:45:45 PM
Quote from: fj11.5 on January 12, 2013, 08:42:20 PM
Hell mate, if you had done the same down here you would of been kept in beer and steaks for weeks :good2:
The more I know the Aussie folk, the more I think I was born in the wrong place. I really need to make the 2014 rally.
mate I would hate for you to get the wrong impression about Australia , it's not all beer and streaks, some times we have chicken and champagne :nyam1:
only for christmas breakfast, or if there,s an expensive nag race on,, were not a fancy bunch down here :biggrin:
Quote from: fj11.5 on January 13, 2013, 01:54:41 AM
Quote from: FJSpringy on January 13, 2013, 01:07:27 AM
Quote from: FJmonkey on January 12, 2013, 08:45:45 PM
Quote from: fj11.5 on January 12, 2013, 08:42:20 PM
Hell mate, if you had done the same down here you would of been kept in beer and steaks for weeks :good2:
The more I know the Aussie folk, the more I think I was born in the wrong place. I really need to make the 2014 rally.
mate I would hate for you to get the wrong impression about Australia , it's not all beer and streaks, some times we have chicken and champagne :yahoo:
only for christmas breakfast, or if there,s an expensive nag race on,, were not a fancy bunch down here :biggrin:
We were up at the Generals brothers today and had a hamburger and chips, it was a bit fancy as it had a slice of pineapple and a fried egg :yahoo:
Quote from: FJmonkey on January 12, 2013, 08:45:45 PM
Quote from: fj11.5 on January 12, 2013, 08:42:20 PM
Hell mate, if you had done the same down here you would of been kept in beer and steaks for weeks :good2:
The more I know the Aussie folk, the more I think I was born in the wrong place. I really need to make the 2014 rally.
Oow...oow..I think I just felt a little tug on tha rod..mmmm...might need some more berley. Note to self: This species seems ta come on tha bite when tha temperature is cooler and when there`s Beer & Steaks on tha hook. :mail1: Think I`ll need Mountains of berley for this one and maybe help with tha net.....
Quote from: FJSpringy on January 13, 2013, 02:52:41 AM
We were up at the Generals brothers today and had a hamburger and chips, it was a bit fancy as it had a slice of pineapple and a fried egg :yahoo:
Was there beetroot?
edit: - the only way I could get a decent burger with beetroot in the States was to order a burger where they had a salad bar and hope like hell they had beetroot in the salad bar.
1, order a cheeseburger, with one over easy egg on the side. (Fried onions too if you can.)
2, pay for the salad bar option.
3, get the burger, stick the egg in it, (and fried onions if you can get them) and head for the salad bar, pick up some tomato, lettuce and beetroot and shove it in it.
4, sit, eat and enjoy a decent burger.
:empathy2: a burger without Beetroot would be like an earthquake without the quake
Ahhh yes, but there are still some weird Aussies who go, "Ewww, beetroot on a burger, YUK". They are definatley in the minority though.
awww shit, I'm in a min ority, are they hard to escape from :biggrin:
I guess I have to give it a try, I like Vegemite and real beer, maybe I am an Aussie and just got adopted to the USA.... Just can't figure out why I need a rear brake.... I love steak and prawns and anything I can put on the grill. Did I mention I like good beer..... Must be my Wombat DNA....Eats, Roots and Leaves.... :drinks:
Easy answer for the rear brake,, its for locking up over snakes on the road :biggrin: