<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Glad to hear all is well with you, Guy.<div><br></div><div>With all the concrete and rebar at the LoC, I'd think they were safe from any issues. </div><div><br></div><div>(But would like to hear from James Snyder, Steve Nease, Pat Kennedy or others at Culpeper and Steve Greene at NARA.)</div><div><br></div><div>CNN had a camera being recorded on the Wolf Blitzer set when the quake hit. It showed some good rock and roll.</div><div><br></div><div>Quakes can be slightly fun (unusual or "interesting") and rather scary at the same time, depending on where you are. </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>When what we call <a href="http://bssa.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/66/4/1065">"The Oroville Earthquake"</a> happened on August 1, 1975, I was sitting in the main studio at KOBO, 1450, Yuba City, with three plate glass windows in front of me and one on the side. I was a song away from doing a "20-20" newscast. The jocks, records and spots were out at the local fair as a weeklong remote. </div><div><br></div><div>The timbers around the plate glass started creaking. The glass began to rattle. (I feared it could shatter.) The phone receiver cord began swaying back and forth, and I could feel the floor undulating under my feet. It was like a sinewave with a length of about six inches was pushing one shoe up as the other went down. Very weird and unsettling feeling, I can tell you.</div><div><br></div><div> My first thought after "Oh, S---" was that it would be a good time to be in an airplane. The second thought was "It's gotta land sometime. What if the quake hasn't stopped?"</div><div><br></div><div>The song ended... and we were off and running with news for the rest of the afternoon. No big deal in terms of damage or anything locally, but the big concern was 700 foot tall Oroville Dam about 20-25 straight-line miles NNE of us in Yuba City and Marysville.</div><div><br></div><div>If the dam had problems, the worst-case was a huge wall of water rushing down the Feather River Canyon and out onto the Sacramento Valley floor. Oroville would have been washed away within minutes... and they say we have maybe half-an-hour to flee. Sacramento, about 40 miles south of me would be affected by the water.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>Guy, what did you decide about the tree? I'd hate to hear it crashed into something.</div><div><br><div><div>Ted</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 23, 2011, at 12:49 PM, Guy Spiller wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> All is well here at my place. I was outside with a tree man talking about taking down a dead tree that I'm worried might be blown over onto my house in this weekend's possibly big hurricane.<br> This was my first real earthquake experience. During the "other" one we had in '03, I was inside a remote truck (with air ride) shading cameras, and didn't feel a thing. <br> This one sounded, and felt, like very intense thunder that went on for 20-30 seconds on arguably, the most perfect weather day we have had since spring.<br> I had planned to do some quad this evening, but I think I will wait another day in case there are some aftershocks.<br> Guy<br> <br> On 8/23/2011 3:25 PM, Ted Langdell wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:168EF96F-EC3F-4653-9314-F51F868C7078@quadvideotapegroup.com" type="cite"> <div>Hope all is well with our QuadList members along the East Coast.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>A 5.9 magnitude earthquake happened at 1:51 p.m., EDT near Mineral, VA. That's about 35 air-miles south of the Library of Congress's Culpeper, VA facility, and what looks like 35 air-miles NNW of Guy Spiller's TR-70 collection in Midlothian, VA southeast of Richmond.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Is everyone and everything OK there?</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Anyone else shook up?</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Comments about what one does to keep a Quad from rocking around during a quake of this size?</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Meantime, Hurricane Irene gets closer to the Eastern Seaboard. </div> <div><br> </div> <div>Ted</div> <br> <div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> </span><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; "> <div> <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; " face="Helvetica" size="3">Ted Langdell</font></div> <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; " face="Helvetica" size="3">Secretary</font></div> </div> </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> </span> </div> <br> <br> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> <br> <pre wrap="">_______________________________________________
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