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Post by brp on Apr 5, 2024 15:48:13 GMT -5
Yeah, that would be "interesting" with that geological composition. mrs. brp., the Ph.D. Geophysicist, thinks that it's most likely due to fracking.
Cheers.
I learned today that there are number of faults that are beneath NJ, and the epicenter of today's quake was very close to where two of the fault lines meet. I am not aware of any fracking in NJ, but it could be happening and I'm just not aware of it. I believe that there is some in Pennsylvania, but not sure anymore. And fault lines are not enough, necessarily, for a quake. Some seismic activity is needed and, AFAIK, the East Coast is reasonably seismically inactive. But not completely, of course. Could be at least partly natural.
Cheers.
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Post by Adelard of Bath on Apr 6, 2024 21:38:38 GMT -5
I just found a stash that I forgot about from a recent trip to Disney - a plastic shopping bag with at least a dozen of those blue bags of coffee they put in the rooms! Yay!
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Post by captjacksfamily on Apr 6, 2024 23:18:00 GMT -5
It seems no matter where you live mother nature has something in store for you. Spending most of our lives in Southern California we have been through many earthquakes including the Northridge (6.7) in I think '94. We were about 30 miles from the epicenter and several houses around us were red tagged. Most of the larger buildings in California are designed to move with the ground movement but I am guessing anyone in the upper floors of the NY sky scrappers had a pretty interesting ride.
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Post by bakerworld on Apr 7, 2024 8:39:47 GMT -5
I'm was a regular coffee packet stealer. I use to steal coffee from the housekeeping carts back in the day before they started covering the sides. I probably contributed the carts being covered.
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Post by Adelard of Bath on Apr 7, 2024 15:51:20 GMT -5
I'm was a regular coffee packet stealer. I use to steal coffee from the housekeeping carts back in the day before they started covering the sides. I probably contributed the carts being covered. All these coffees were actually left for us in the room...it was a family trip for which I booked three separate rooms - nobody drinks coffee except me so I only made one pot that whole time and the rest came home with me! I also collect all the soaps and lotions I can get. Used to get the little bottles of shampoo, too. As far as taking things from the carts...I never was comfortable with that but my mom was notorious for it. We traveled a lot when I was young and my entire life up until I moved out, we never bought soap or shampoo. I am still using hotel soap in the shower in fact! Or pens or notepads, for that matter. I still have '80s-vintage Embassy Suites pens and notepads somewhere! (never cared for their '90s logo, the green one)
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Post by maxsdad on Apr 8, 2024 13:07:36 GMT -5
Sorry to those whose contracts expire in 2042, but today, I learned that the next total solar eclipse will pass directly over Walt Disney World on Aug. 12, 2045. I can't imagine how much resort rooms will be going for. I just wonder if there will be a points chart calendar adjustment for that year.
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Post by helenabear on Apr 8, 2024 16:05:09 GMT -5
Speaking of 100% eclipse... I'll totally book Orlando in 2045 to do this again!
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Post by baymaxfan on Apr 8, 2024 16:11:10 GMT -5
Helenabear - where did you take these photos? Very nice pics.
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Post by helenabear on Apr 8, 2024 18:00:30 GMT -5
Helenabear - where did you take these photos? Very nice pics. We went to the Columbus Zoo. I loved hearing the animals get more quiet as it got darker and colder (which is why my kid and I drove there - I wanted animal reactions). He had the day off since enough teachers called off today lol. We had a little more than 2 minutes of totality. More than enough time to take quick phone pics and see it with my own eyes. It was really cool. Amazing compared to the partials we had before. The people next to us were from Utah and flew in to see the zoo and this just for it. Fortunately it wasn't super crowded but fun all the same.
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Post by stellabutterman on Apr 9, 2024 8:13:40 GMT -5
I watched in Cape Girardeau with an elementary school, and we had 4 minutes, 12 seconds of totality. The kids were adorable. At the moment of totality, one of them shouted, "We did it!" It wasn't crowded, but when I left, 55N was a parking lot from exit 99 at the north end of Cape going to St. Louis. I saw lots of Iowa and Tennessee tags.
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Post by Adelard of Bath on Apr 11, 2024 20:30:10 GMT -5
We have decided the next car is going to be a Mazda, specifically a CX-5 even though I don't understand America's need for SUVs when they could have wagons. But if you can't beat 'em.
So we are at the dealer test driving a used one, I'm the car guy and I wanted to try a turbo this time, so wife had me drive. The guy goes with, sitting in the back...old school!
Anyways yeah it's fine. Wife: "What do you think of the turbo" Me: "I'm not blown away by it, we don't need it." I like the "sport" switch by the shifter, it makes the the trans shift earlier which I enjoy, virtually none of that pesky "thinking about it, should I upshift or not" that is programmed into the normal mode. If I'm pushing the gas pedal down more than little bit, it should upshift, at least that's my take on it. But then it held the lower gear for too long...oh well. I appreciated that it has a normal 6-speed auto, not a CVT like everybody is doing.
Anyways, I told the sales guy that we drove a couple Subaru's and they weren't for us, but when I drove the turbo and pushed the pedal on the right, it made me laugh like I was as giddy as a sbool boy. I literally said, "Holy shit what just happened" and that didn't happen with the Mazda. So the non-turbo will be good enough.
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Post by Brian5581 on Apr 13, 2024 18:20:24 GMT -5
I’ve got the Mazda CX-5 at the moment (leased). No complaints, though nothing particularly praiseworthy, either.
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Post by Adelard of Bath on Apr 13, 2024 21:59:20 GMT -5
I’ve got the Mazda CX-5 at the moment (leased). No complaints, though nothing particularly praiseworthy, either. Okay, good to hear! Wife likes it, so I guess that's most of it. And I haven't found any reasons to say, "We shouldn't get this". Me thinking it would be way more fun to have a little mazda3 hatchback, well that doesn't count.
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Post by Adelard of Bath on Apr 14, 2024 9:08:54 GMT -5
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Post by bakerworld on Apr 14, 2024 10:27:08 GMT -5
When we gave our GMC Acadia to our eldest (aka grandkids) we replaced it with a Chevy Blazer & GMC Terrain. Probably shouldn't have bought the Terrain, as we don't really need 2 cars IMO, but DH wanted his own ride. I really enjoy the Blazer - much different than the Blazer we had in '98 as it has a wider wheel base. The Terrain has more 'features' but it's seems thin. Both SUV's are the exact same exterior size and yet they feel so different on the interior. The Blazer is just roomier seating and back area.
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