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July 26, 2005

5.6 Quake Hits Montana

Hey Craig! Wake up! (link via fark)

David's already live blogged it, complete with links.

Now that's dedication.

Posted by Rita at July 26, 2005 01:26 AM

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Holy crap o.o

Dammit Rita if your going to be at this hour I should add you to my MSN Messenger list lol

Posted by: BloodSpite at July 26, 2005 04:44 AM

This morning was a new record. I awoke at 12:04 am & couldn't go back to sleep. And since I didn't go to sleep until around 10 pm, today will really, rilly suck.

I don't think the new & improved sleeping pill is working so well. Damn stupid butterfly!

Oh, and I don't do MSN. I've been a Yahoo-er since about 1997. But aren't you supposed to be working at this hour, hmmm?

;-)

Posted by: Rita [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 26, 2005 04:49 AM

It was too far away from us. We didn't feel a thing.

In fact, I didn't know anything about it until about an hour ago when I got up with the wee lass.

The last quake I felt was the one in Challis, ID in '83 or '84. We were waiting for the school bus, and it rattled enough to ring my grandparents' dinner bell.

Posted by: Craig [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 26, 2005 05:01 AM

I wondered if you weren't too far from this one to notice it. That's the way we are here with the ones from the New Madrid fault...though I've been in two down around where my parents live. And now the one that hit when we were in San Diego.

Strangely enough, I've never been in a tornado. Had near misses, but nothing major.

3 earthquakes, 0 tornados. You'd think it'd be just the opposite.

Posted by: Rita [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 26, 2005 05:06 AM

I have yahoo as well lol

and I AM at work

Posted by: BloodSpite at July 26, 2005 05:09 AM

I mean to say if you'll drop me an E-mail at my work addy (if you still have it) I'll give you my Yahoo ID. That way your not bored senseless while surfing at 1 am ;)

i work midnight till 9 currently

Posted by: BloodSpite at July 26, 2005 05:11 AM

We had a tornado go near here 4-5 years ago. (It wasn't long after we'd moved to Billings.) I was standing in the living room, and asked, "Do you hear something? It sounds like a tornado siren."

We decided that we hadn't heard anything, but then found out that it was the tornado warning.

Good thing it ended up quite a bit to the north!

Posted by: Craig [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 26, 2005 05:19 AM

I still have it around somewhere, downloaded into Outlook I think. I'll dig it out & drop you an email.

Though I wasn't too bored. Me & the cat were playing this:

http://www.eyezmaze.com/grow/RPG/index.html

but she kept getting me killed.

Posted by: Rita [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 26, 2005 05:20 AM

Craig, my parents live in a storm track, so I've heard bunches of them go over. The only one that ever touched down happened before I was born. My parents lost everything....house, truck, clothes. Almost sucked them & my sister, who was a baby at the time, out of the cellar too. Needless to say, I was raised with a healthy respect for storms....i.e., every time it thundered, we went to the cellar.

I've seen a few funnel clouds since I moved here, but they never completely touched down until they got past me. Thank goodness!

Posted by: Rita [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 26, 2005 05:25 AM

felt it ... just FYI ....

Posted by: Tony Rosen at July 26, 2005 08:48 AM