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To: Ilaine who wrote (42890)	11/27/1999 1:13:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

These California guys are always so blase, Well yeah, a 3.8??? I've caused that during one of my romantic encounters! If its not over a 5, you don't really feel it, unless you're right on the fault.

To: Ilaine who wrote (42890)	11/27/1999 1:51:00 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Actually, we didn't feel that one as it wasn't that close to my region... I'm east of that. However, I've been in areas when there have been a few good little shakes. When I lived in Montreal, we had 2 that I can remember...the kind that knock a few things over on shelves or make a picture fall off of the wall... We've had 2 decent ones since we moved to the farm. One was actually very strong and had an epicenter which was about 5 miles to the west of us. I remember that one quite well because it was actually pretty funny... I was lying in bed with Mr. Croc and our big husky-greyhound dog was crashed out on the end of the bed. I had turned a small lamp on and was reading, but it was dim in the room. All of a sudden, the husky flipped over into a semi-crouching position with her ears pointed straight toward the closet door. Then there was this growing sound like a train coming...A VERY BIG TRAIN.... and the house started to feel like it was sitting in Jello... sort of a gentle rocking or swaying feeling at first, but then growing stronger and louder... At some point during all of the racket, the husky looked over her shoulder at me and I'll never forget the look on her face... sort of a surprised, slightly bemused look with her eyes shining as though she thought it was all pretty exciting. Then all of a sudden, the footboard of the bed flipped out and downwards and all 3 of us were left sitting there on the mattress with one end of it down on the floor... It was actually pretty funny because Mr. Croc was sleeping when all of this happened and he missed everything except the last part about waking up with his legs pointing downhill. BTW, the bed was one of those antique ones with the side rails and the little metal hooks that hook into the headboard and footboard, and with the mattress sitting on rails... so it wasn't like some kind of major structural damage to the bed. However, the house got a couple of noticeable cracks in the foundation..in fact, most of the houses in the area had a bit of damage like that. The land around here is a clay-sand mixture and at the time of year when the earthquake happened (late winter/early spring), the ground was very wet for several feet down and it really did have a kind of "shaking Jello effect" when the quake went through. BTW, that's another funny thing about it... It seemed kind of weird to have a quake when there was snow on the ground...sort of like how it feels when we get a really bad electrical storm in the middle of winter (a very rare thing, but thunder in winter is very scary... sounds like Thor smashing his hammer right over your head because the sound carries so well when the forests are leafless and the ground is covered with ice and snow). Anyhow, about the way people feel about things like quakes up here... I've noticed that most people think they're kind of exciting... fun to talk about after they happen... probably because we've never had one that hurt anyone. We tend to get in a bigger snit when we get 3 feet of snow in one week, or ice that brings down every hydro pole for a couple of miles... (which reminds me... I'm going to try to put some photos up that I took during the bad ice storm that we had in 1998... I still find it hard to believe some of the things that we saw during that storm)... croc