Things you wish you could say

[notabitail]

Remember with the Richter scale, that each number is twice the strength of the previous. For example, a 4.0 is twice as strong as a 3.0. A 5.0 is twice as strong as a 4.0. A 4.0 is a pretty minor quake. 4.8 is almost twice that, though. Strong enough to feel, but not enough to cause much damage as long as the building codes in the area are decent.

Before the 4 there was a nice big 5.something the night before. Stuff broke. Including a bottle of cleaner. I bet the floors had never been that clean.

I never did finish reading that book that night. Power went out during the quake. I thought the water heater exploded.

 

[Brooks_]

We did not just experience a 4.8 magnitude earthquake. That does not happen in NJ.

Was wondering if you had felt it. Glad all is well for you/yours.

 

[azurbanclucker]

Remember with the Richter scale, that each number is twice the strength of the previous. For example, a 4.0 is twice as strong as a 3.0. A 5.0 is twice as strong as a 4.0. A 4.0 is a pretty minor quake. 4.8 is almost twice that, though. Strong enough to feel, but not enough to cause much damage as long as the building codes in the area are decent.

Actually, it's logarithmic. a 5.0 is 10 TIMES stronger than a 4.0, not just 2x as strong. Also, the Richter scale isn't really used anymore even though everyone calls earthquake measurements by that name. We use the Moment magnitude (Mw) scale most often today. It's the most accurate way to reliably rate quakes. Richter scale has some shortcomings when measuring over distances and has trouble accurately rating large quakes over distances.

 

[Nabiki]

Actually, it's logarithmic. a 5.0 is 10 TIMES stronger than a 4.0, not just 2x as strong. Also, the Richter scale isn't really used anymore even though everyone calls earthquake measurements by that name. We use the Moment magnitude (Mw) scale most often today. It's the most accurate way to reliably rate quakes. Richter scale has some shortcomings when measuring over distances and has trouble accurately rating large quakes over distances.

Good to know. I learned my earthquake measurement stuff a long time ago. I really should have looked it up, but I didn't think it had changed.

 

[tripletfeb]

That's really thinking, right there.
I'm not good at playing petty with the neighbors.
I once lived in a nice subdivision with an older retired neighbor.
One of those guys that kept his home and property above and beyond. Me, not as much. But I worked, had a kid and a life while he was retired and had the time you know?
Of course I was the worse neighbor possible in his mind. Well, because you know me.
He always liked to catch me when I'd get home from work and make comments about my grass or leaves or not parking in my garage. Just what I thought was petty at the time.
In the winter he was always the first on the cul-de-sac to get his driveway and sidewalk shoveled after an overnight snow. It irked him that I never got around to doing mine till that evening. Always the last one to get done.
Once or twice it happened on my day off and he'd have to get an early start just to make sure he was done way before me.
So one night it snowed like 4" or 6" I decided to be petty and got out there at the buttcrack of dawn so I could get done before work and beat him.
He must of heard my shovel on the concrete but not soon after he was out there doing his. I laughed but then noticed he was going double time. I had a good start on him so I busted it out and made damn sure I smoked him.
I put my stuff away grabbed my work things and headed out to the truck. He was still hard at it as I gave him a smirk and wave and left all proud of myself.
I'm sure at that point he just wanted to get done before the other neighbors figured it out.
When I got home that night I didn't see him. In fact I didn't see him the next several days. Then I finally saw his wife and she said that day while shoveling he had a heart attack or something with his heart and was in the hospital.
Man I felt bad. When he got home I helped get him in the house and settled. The rest of that winter I made sure I got his driveway shoveled every time it snowed and it didn't matter if it was before I went to work or late into the night. His always got done before mine or anyone else's.
That next summer is when I had my bike wreck. When I got home from the hospital I was wheelchair bound. The houses were raised ranch so about a dozen steps out front.
I told my buddy that brought me home to park in that guy's driveway. It was the shortest, straightest level shot to the last 3 steps into my house. Of course he immediately came out to see who was in his drive. He helped get me in my house and returned my favor by mowing my lawn the next several months.
Despite our differences and neither of us changing our ways too much we were never petty to each other again and from then till a couple 3 years later when I moved we actually became friends.
It was a good lesson to learn in the worse way.

Very nice story

We had some cloacas in CA come, steal rocks, put them in a odd pattern on our mailbox, and throw them at the neighbor's car.

Cloacas?

 

[tripletfeb]

It's possible that it was the neighbour's kid, maybe the neighbour's boyfriend. They did more than just let my birds loose, though. They threw things around, even filling a bucket and throwing my leather gardening gloves into it. There was some destruction, thankfully nothing too bad.

Edit: My males have been getting noisy, and the neighbour apparently had a real problem with the rooster that got killed. She never said anything to me, despite the text I sent to all of my nearby neighbours to tell me if he bothered them, including her. I would have found a place for him or had him for dinner if I'd known he bothered her. She never said a thing. The only replies I got were "I like the sound of a rooster," or "Nope, he doesn't bother me." from some of the other neighbours. The neighbour behind her house (who came over to help me catch birds) mentioned that they found a Tide Pod next to their chicken run, and the only place it could have come from was the neighbour I suspect's yard. She said that she's afraid of birds.

This is nuts

We did not just experience a 4.8 magnitude earthquake. That does not happen in NJ.

Been happening a lot lately

 

[tripletfeb]

Remember with the Richter scale, that each number is twice the strength of the previous. For example, a 4.0 is twice as strong as a 3.0. A 5.0 is twice as strong as a 4.0. A 4.0 is a pretty minor quake. 4.8 is almost twice that, though. Strong enough to feel, but not enough to cause much damage as long as the building codes in the area are decent.

Good to know!

Actually, it's logarithmic. a 5.0 is 10 TIMES stronger than a 4.0, not just 2x as strong. Also, the Richter scale isn't really used anymore even though everyone calls earthquake measurements by that name. We use the Moment magnitude (Mw) scale most often today. It's the most accurate way to reliably rate quakes. Richter scale has some shortcomings when measuring over distances and has trouble accurately rating large quakes over distances.

 

[azurbanclucker]

Good to know!

 

[notabitail]

Cloacas?

Nicer way of saying a hole.

 

[RUNuts]

This is nuts

I didn't do it. Nobody saw me. You can't prove a thing.