Native LosAngelinos have this thing we like to think is a sixth sense for earthquakes. Of course, it's psychosomatic and more often than not it ends up turning out to be unfounded, but it's there...
Pearl Girl, my native gal, and I have both been recently having those eerie emotions associated with earthquake sixth sense.
Eathqaukes were more frequent when i was a kid.
If you live in LA or you're from LA, you'll notice we haven't had any eathquakes of any noticeable magnitude lately, i.e. in over a decade. And, we've been having what we like to call "earthquake weather": erratic shifts in temperature and summer-like evening breezes.
again, i admit it's all false science, but please consider removing heavy objects hanging above your bed and removing or securing any glass frames and breakable objects that may fall into the escape path from your bed to the front door. Check the batteries in your flashlight, and sleep in boxers so as to avoid being the bewildered guy amongst his neighbors in the middle of the street awestruck in his skivvies.
I'm just saying...and, really, it's motivated by love for archinectors.
A Center for Ants?
Feb 21, 07 4:33 pm
if we had an earthquake right now, i'd be awesome. i wouldn't have to have my desk crit. arghhhhhh
Erin Williams
Feb 21, 07 4:46 pm
Anything to break up the workday, man.
treekiller
Feb 21, 07 4:56 pm
I could afford to move back to LA if all the carpet baggers got scared by the big one!
Marlin
Feb 21, 07 5:03 pm
I don't foresee the Big One, treekiller. I foresee the Annoying One.
Marlin
Feb 21, 07 5:06 pm
(that's the one that breaks everything you own that's uninsured and makes you spend the the next three days cleaning up, namely your bookshelf full of heavy architecture monographs.)
Orhan Ayyüce
Feb 21, 07 5:11 pm
fuck... now this..
i would laugh it off, but i feel the same way lately, after being here for most of my life. no joke man. and i know marlin isn't joking. his prediction makes sense.
i have been in couple biggies here. last quake i was in a worst hit area in santa monica (only second to epicenter northridge). it is no joy ride.
strlt_typ
Feb 21, 07 5:12 pm
gotta move my s,m,l,xl to the bottom shelf as soon as i get home...
i lived a mile away from the epicenter of the '94 earthquake and it was loud. we stepped outside and my dad, who was religious, started praying while clutching us...freaked me out. i seriously believed that the rapture was happening. when it woke me up, i looked outside the window to see if the sky was bursting with meteors...
A Center for Ants?
Feb 21, 07 10:23 pm
i agree nonetheless w/ your prediction. we've def. been having a spell of earthquake weather... we haven't had so much as a good little shake on the westside in the past few months...
dia
Feb 21, 07 10:38 pm
How are the animals? Birds, cats, dogs are generally good indicators of earthquakes.
We had one in Auckland 2 nights ago - pretty rare for us. It was only 4.5 on the richter scale but located 15km's underground 30km's from the city - Something you guys would laugh at,
b3tadine[sutures]
Feb 21, 07 10:38 pm
i just want to know when this happens
wake me when frogs fall from the sky, please.
lovebird
Feb 21, 07 11:11 pm
I have a bird and a rabbit. My rabbit hid under a chair and stomped his hind legs for hours before the last quake, and my bird plucked out a bunch of his feathers. Animals can definately sense these things. That said, my animals haven't shown any warning behavior, so I don't think another one of any significance is coming anytime soon. By the way if you're curious of seismic occurances in Los Angeles, check out http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/Los_Angeles.html
mdler
Feb 21, 07 11:26 pm
if i worked at that salon, I would be selling her hair on ebay right about now
moratto
Feb 22, 07 1:35 am
Explain why Sinead O'Conner is still alive.
So what do you do during an Earthquake? I moved here from the Midwest. I know how to handle a tornado.
Marlin
Feb 22, 07 1:46 am
Moratto: me in an eathquake: stand guard in front of the thing i least want to clean up if it falls-like a bookshelf- then run out the door once it seems like it's a biggie.
Remember the earthquake scene from LA Story?
Fogey: Like birds plucking out their feathers, Britney shaving her head seems like a good indicator of the quake to come. good one.
geimanj
Feb 22, 07 3:49 am
I've been in 3 quakes, only one of which was in CA. I remember we had a weird little one in the suburbs of Chicago in the 80s that was just a wiggle. The second one was when I was visiting friends in High School in LA, and I slept through it. The house I grew up in used to shake all of the time because we lived only a block or two from the main Burlington Northern train line and huge freight trains passing by would make everything around bounce. The last quake was the weirdest- it was in Manhattan, not long after 9/11. I was still on edge after the WTC attack, and one night my apartment building violently shook for a brief instant and there was a really loud banging noise. I thought a truck had hit the building, but then found out the next day that it was a local tremor. Anyway, I hope your premonition proves false.
WonderK
Feb 22, 07 9:07 am
geimanj, I was in that quake in Manhattan too! Wasn't it strange? It sounded like someone had dropped a large appliance from the roof of our building or something. It was really late at night too.
As long as we're being superstitious, my best friend has lived in LA for almost 3 years and on several occasions when she's come home, there's been a tremor here or there, I think a couple of them were in CA somewhere. Anyway, she's coming home this weekend. Put on your helmets.
From looking at those pics all I can say is that it is a damn good thing that there are no shoddy developers or contractors here in LA
mdler
Feb 22, 07 12:15 pm
Here comes the rain....
mdler
Feb 22, 07 12:19 pm
she is back in rehab...earthquake warning has been called off
maybe we could set up a Brittney in Rehab threat system...somewhat like the terrorist threat thing that always in changing color
holz.box
Feb 22, 07 12:20 pm
i'm still waiting for mt rainier to blow...
mdler
Feb 22, 07 12:26 pm
oh shit, Garwondler shaved his/her/his head
lovebird
Feb 22, 07 8:16 pm
Oh shit! I came home tonight and there was a pile of feathers under my bird. It's on.
lovebird
Feb 22, 07 8:21 pm
Renew your earthquake insurance. Go to Fry's Electronics and photograph a bunch of stuff you wish you could afford and forge receipts. It's the only way we can survive as architects.
Paul Petrunia
Feb 22, 07 8:36 pm
i was hiking with my dogs in griffith park a couple years ago. there were a lot of rattle snakes around that day, and coyotes were also walking around the trails, in the middle of the day. i ran in to some guy who said there must be an earthquake coming judging by the way the animals are acting. sure enough there was an earthquake the next day.
If Britney doesn't die in the upcoming earthquake, she will do herself in by driving (accidentally?) off a cliff in the next week or so anyway. That's my prediction.
Also, as long as we're talking celebrities and you guys are all in celebrity-land anyway, my partner's partner was watching the Anna Nicole Smith courtroom decision today while I was working - so I saw it across the room - what a freak show!
Please be careful everyone.
WonderK
Feb 22, 07 9:27 pm
lovebird are you serious. Were there really feathers. ?
lovebird
Feb 22, 07 9:31 pm
oh yes! Enough to make a boa from.
WonderK
Feb 22, 07 9:32 pm
oh jesus.
mdler
Feb 22, 07 11:24 pm
Im selling Garwondler pubes...
moratto
Feb 22, 07 11:52 pm
Thanks to this discussion, I had some great earthquake nightmares last night. I shouldn't read this thread before I go to bed. I just hope the epicenter is in Beverly Hills. It took me 45min. to get out of that shit town on Wilshire tonight.
A Center for Ants?
Feb 23, 07 12:06 am
your mistake is taking wilshire. wilshire has just way too many lights.
garpike
Feb 23, 07 12:00 pm
ACfA, earthquakes unfortunately only stall crits by a minute or two.
mdler
Feb 23, 07 12:42 pm
I am going to design a shrine to Britney's Hair for my senior thesis...can someone please post some go projects for me to look at
archasm
Feb 23, 07 1:51 pm
As I said in another thread,
"I have lived here (LA) my whole life, and people always get premonitions and start talking about "earthquake weather." if you throw enough shit on a wall, some of it is bound to stick.
Nick Sowers
Mar 27, 07 3:21 pm
the wind is blowing like mad today... it must be a sign.
n_
Mar 27, 07 3:26 pm
i'll be there next month to visit my sisters. i hope l.a. doesn't shake me off the ground while i'm driving her old vespa around town.
silverlake
Mar 27, 07 3:49 pm
Weird wind and storm conditions happening in downtown today. I think its a tornado premonition...
Erin Williams
Mar 27, 07 3:53 pm
On santa monica blvd, it appears that the trees on one side of the street are blowing the opposite direction than the trees on the other side. That's looking pretty freaky from here.
Nick Sowers
Mar 28, 07 11:29 am
I think it was all because OZO MOTLEY was in town. Yeah what a great concert they put on last night at USC.
strlt_typ
Apr 21, 07 9:49 pm
i just felt a jolt!!!
6:48 pm...los angeles
mdler
Apr 21, 07 11:50 pm
i lost some money at the tracks today..if that means anything. granted, it was $1 beer and hotdog day
myriam
Apr 22, 07 9:24 am
Whenever the Santa Anas kicked up oddly, bringing that eery warm-air wind where it didn't fit in, I'd get the earthquake jitters. I spent years of my life taking super quick showers in the mornings due to an intense fear of being caught wet and naked by a quake.
mightylittle™
May 8, 07 8:07 pm
and just last night i looked up at a shelf in my kitchen and said - gee, mighty you moron, why the *%!$ did you put all of those glass vases up there? i mean, come on dude...it won't even take a big one, just a slightly larger than small one to shake those babies right off.
that's about the dumbest thing i've done in a while...
and with the warm breezes we've had up here in SF Bay area...EQ's are on everyones mind here too.
the freaks come out at night...
archasm
May 8, 07 8:12 pm
go get some museum putty at home depot. your glass will be just fine.
silverlake
May 8, 07 10:53 pm
If its not an earthquake its a wildfire...
I was just jogging in silverlake and was under a helluva blanket of smoke.
WonderK
May 9, 07 10:22 am
Apparently these guys aren't too concerned.
I'm worried about the animals at the zoo though!
liberty bell
May 9, 07 11:09 am
DubK, that pic sums up for me the essence of California.*
* Please, Cal 'necters, don't be offended - I love California and have since I spent time there every summer as a child. The place has an endless optimism that I love, and that's mostly what I read in that picture.
vado retro
May 9, 07 11:52 am
she lived in berkely til the earthquake shook her loose
she lives in texas now where nothin ever moves...
Native LosAngelinos have this thing we like to think is a sixth sense for earthquakes. Of course, it's psychosomatic and more often than not it ends up turning out to be unfounded, but it's there...
Pearl Girl, my native gal, and I have both been recently having those eerie emotions associated with earthquake sixth sense.
Eathqaukes were more frequent when i was a kid.
If you live in LA or you're from LA, you'll notice we haven't had any eathquakes of any noticeable magnitude lately, i.e. in over a decade. And, we've been having what we like to call "earthquake weather": erratic shifts in temperature and summer-like evening breezes.
again, i admit it's all false science, but please consider removing heavy objects hanging above your bed and removing or securing any glass frames and breakable objects that may fall into the escape path from your bed to the front door. Check the batteries in your flashlight, and sleep in boxers so as to avoid being the bewildered guy amongst his neighbors in the middle of the street awestruck in his skivvies.
I'm just saying...and, really, it's motivated by love for archinectors.
if we had an earthquake right now, i'd be awesome. i wouldn't have to have my desk crit. arghhhhhh
Anything to break up the workday, man.
I could afford to move back to LA if all the carpet baggers got scared by the big one!
I don't foresee the Big One, treekiller. I foresee the Annoying One.
(that's the one that breaks everything you own that's uninsured and makes you spend the the next three days cleaning up, namely your bookshelf full of heavy architecture monographs.)
fuck... now this..
i would laugh it off, but i feel the same way lately, after being here for most of my life. no joke man. and i know marlin isn't joking. his prediction makes sense.
i have been in couple biggies here. last quake i was in a worst hit area in santa monica (only second to epicenter northridge). it is no joy ride.
gotta move my s,m,l,xl to the bottom shelf as soon as i get home...
i lived a mile away from the epicenter of the '94 earthquake and it was loud. we stepped outside and my dad, who was religious, started praying while clutching us...freaked me out. i seriously believed that the rapture was happening. when it woke me up, i looked outside the window to see if the sky was bursting with meteors...
i agree nonetheless w/ your prediction. we've def. been having a spell of earthquake weather... we haven't had so much as a good little shake on the westside in the past few months...
How are the animals? Birds, cats, dogs are generally good indicators of earthquakes.
We had one in Auckland 2 nights ago - pretty rare for us. It was only 4.5 on the richter scale but located 15km's underground 30km's from the city - Something you guys would laugh at,
i just want to know when this happens
wake me when frogs fall from the sky, please.
I have a bird and a rabbit. My rabbit hid under a chair and stomped his hind legs for hours before the last quake, and my bird plucked out a bunch of his feathers. Animals can definately sense these things. That said, my animals haven't shown any warning behavior, so I don't think another one of any significance is coming anytime soon. By the way if you're curious of seismic occurances in Los Angeles, check out http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/Los_Angeles.html
if i worked at that salon, I would be selling her hair on ebay right about now
Explain why Sinead O'Conner is still alive.
So what do you do during an Earthquake? I moved here from the Midwest. I know how to handle a tornado.
Moratto: me in an eathquake: stand guard in front of the thing i least want to clean up if it falls-like a bookshelf- then run out the door once it seems like it's a biggie.
Remember the earthquake scene from LA Story?
Fogey: Like birds plucking out their feathers, Britney shaving her head seems like a good indicator of the quake to come. good one.
I've been in 3 quakes, only one of which was in CA. I remember we had a weird little one in the suburbs of Chicago in the 80s that was just a wiggle. The second one was when I was visiting friends in High School in LA, and I slept through it. The house I grew up in used to shake all of the time because we lived only a block or two from the main Burlington Northern train line and huge freight trains passing by would make everything around bounce. The last quake was the weirdest- it was in Manhattan, not long after 9/11. I was still on edge after the WTC attack, and one night my apartment building violently shook for a brief instant and there was a really loud banging noise. I thought a truck had hit the building, but then found out the next day that it was a local tremor. Anyway, I hope your premonition proves false.
geimanj, I was in that quake in Manhattan too! Wasn't it strange? It sounded like someone had dropped a large appliance from the roof of our building or something. It was really late at night too.
As long as we're being superstitious, my best friend has lived in LA for almost 3 years and on several occasions when she's come home, there's been a tremor here or there, I think a couple of them were in CA somewhere. Anyway, she's coming home this weekend. Put on your helmets.
Should I be buying oceanfront property in Nevada?
Orhan
From looking at those pics all I can say is that it is a damn good thing that there are no shoddy developers or contractors here in LA
Here comes the rain....
she is back in rehab...earthquake warning has been called off
maybe we could set up a Brittney in Rehab threat system...somewhat like the terrorist threat thing that always in changing color
i'm still waiting for mt rainier to blow...
oh shit, Garwondler shaved his/her/his head
Oh shit! I came home tonight and there was a pile of feathers under my bird. It's on.
Renew your earthquake insurance. Go to Fry's Electronics and photograph a bunch of stuff you wish you could afford and forge receipts. It's the only way we can survive as architects.
i was hiking with my dogs in griffith park a couple years ago. there were a lot of rattle snakes around that day, and coyotes were also walking around the trails, in the middle of the day. i ran in to some guy who said there must be an earthquake coming judging by the way the animals are acting. sure enough there was an earthquake the next day.
speaking of selling britney's hair, that salon is one step ahead of you...
Oh my god now I'm worried about all you guys.
If Britney doesn't die in the upcoming earthquake, she will do herself in by driving (accidentally?) off a cliff in the next week or so anyway. That's my prediction.
Also, as long as we're talking celebrities and you guys are all in celebrity-land anyway, my partner's partner was watching the Anna Nicole Smith courtroom decision today while I was working - so I saw it across the room - what a freak show!
Please be careful everyone.
lovebird are you serious. Were there really feathers. ?
oh yes! Enough to make a boa from.
oh jesus.
Im selling Garwondler pubes...
Thanks to this discussion, I had some great earthquake nightmares last night. I shouldn't read this thread before I go to bed. I just hope the epicenter is in Beverly Hills. It took me 45min. to get out of that shit town on Wilshire tonight.
your mistake is taking wilshire. wilshire has just way too many lights.
ACfA, earthquakes unfortunately only stall crits by a minute or two.
I am going to design a shrine to Britney's Hair for my senior thesis...can someone please post some go projects for me to look at
As I said in another thread,
"I have lived here (LA) my whole life, and people always get premonitions and start talking about "earthquake weather." if you throw enough shit on a wall, some of it is bound to stick.
the wind is blowing like mad today... it must be a sign.
i'll be there next month to visit my sisters. i hope l.a. doesn't shake me off the ground while i'm driving her old vespa around town.
Weird wind and storm conditions happening in downtown today. I think its a tornado premonition...
On santa monica blvd, it appears that the trees on one side of the street are blowing the opposite direction than the trees on the other side. That's looking pretty freaky from here.
I think it was all because OZO MOTLEY was in town. Yeah what a great concert they put on last night at USC.
i just felt a jolt!!!
6:48 pm...los angeles
i lost some money at the tracks today..if that means anything. granted, it was $1 beer and hotdog day
Whenever the Santa Anas kicked up oddly, bringing that eery warm-air wind where it didn't fit in, I'd get the earthquake jitters. I spent years of my life taking super quick showers in the mornings due to an intense fear of being caught wet and naked by a quake.
and just last night i looked up at a shelf in my kitchen and said - gee, mighty you moron, why the *%!$ did you put all of those glass vases up there? i mean, come on dude...it won't even take a big one, just a slightly larger than small one to shake those babies right off.
that's about the dumbest thing i've done in a while...
and with the warm breezes we've had up here in SF Bay area...EQ's are on everyones mind here too.
the freaks come out at night...
go get some museum putty at home depot. your glass will be just fine.
If its not an earthquake its a wildfire...
I was just jogging in silverlake and was under a helluva blanket of smoke.
Apparently these guys aren't too concerned.
I'm worried about the animals at the zoo though!
DubK, that pic sums up for me the essence of California.*
* Please, Cal 'necters, don't be offended - I love California and have since I spent time there every summer as a child. The place has an endless optimism that I love, and that's mostly what I read in that picture.
she lived in berkely til the earthquake shook her loose
she lives in texas now where nothin ever moves...