earthquake

[Peter Lacey]

Sorry to hear of your losses Louise, strange to think it was that powerful and for the duration Traci suggests. I wonder how many can claim to have seen their tarantula killed by an earthquake.
I felt it as I was on the computer, hoovering up more info. Couldn't work out what it was as it only lasted max 2 secs, I actually thought it might have been the wife tugging at my chair or the cat jumping up at it, or perhaps a ghost, nah! its gotta be the Metaxa!
At work today a few felt it in South London and as I'm in Essex I would have thought you'd have felt it James.

[Chris Sainsbury]

What the most supriseing thing about this thread is not the earth quake but the fact that people watch star trek and don't mind admitting the fact!

Cheers
Chris

[Andrew Ferguson]

Sorry to hear you lost some of your Ts to it Louise ...

We live not to far away from the epicentre in Lincs, but also close to a air bace so my other halfs first gut reaction was that a jet had come down.
Our house's were old RAF houses in the middle of nowhere and when a heavy lorry goes by we aften get a rumble through the house so didn't think much to it until it became really intense ... thankfully only lasted 40-50sec's with no after shocks felt.

I've been delivering down S.E. Lincs today (Louth and Mablethorpe area) and some people said the same thing. They thought an RAF craft had come down. I'm just a few minutes from the massive steel works in S****horpe and my first thought was that there had been an explosion.

Its amazing that only one person in S. Yorks has been injured, and only midly at that.

[andy hood]

we had the tremor here just before 1 am the house shook and rumbled loudly for a good 20 seconds it was an unreal spooky feeling , it set the dogs off too they where barking and howling like mad, they went ape droppings!!

[SylviRigden]

Aw Louise, I'm sorry about your losses Is that lovely P metallica ok?

[SylviRigden]

What the most supriseing thing about this thread is not the earth quake but the fact that people watch star trek and don't mind admitting the fact!

Cheers
Chris

Ah, you haven't been assimilated by the Collective yet. We need to send a sphere into your part of the Delta Quadrant.

[Louise~Nichols]

@ Peter...thanks mate. James was on msn talking to me when the quake happened...I think he thought the cheese had finally fallen off my cracker to start with...I seem to recall that I had a *caps-lock rant* briefly!!

@ Sylvi, thanks to you too....the P.Metallica is absolutely fine, she has a tub safely away from the main area of chaos. Sadly it has been another mated pulchra that has lost it's life amongst others...as well as Paddy (my Bicoloratum that Toran helped me nurse back to health), my P.Antinous juves (they only arrived with me on Friday), and various other youngsters.
At the risk of becoming another *Lou & Sylvi's conversation thread*...how's your lad Haggle doing?

[SylviRigden]

I don't know how he is Louise, I was thinking today that I'll e-mail Robert and see how he is getting on. Thats very sad about your T's, and you have just lost a pulchra too. Have you just the one female and male left now?

[Louise~Nichols]

Yup...Miranda is only recently departed, so this was the final kick in the pants. *sighs* Macros is oblivious to the ongoings...he's busy making another sperm web!!

It'll be good to know how your handsome lad is...he looked amazing in his photos!

[SylviRigden]

Yes it will be good to see how he is doing. I'm trying not to be the mother with a pulchra tied to her apron strings - its a good job he didn't take his mobile away on holiday with him.
Was the pulchra egg sac you had a good one?

[Louise~Nichols]

Hehehe...you're as *mother hen* as me!!

Eggsacs....there are two
Miranda double clutched before passing away, one sac is nymph 2 stage, but now desperately struggling for numbers...the other sac is still young, but yes it's full of eggs...and I've got everything crossed that it works out okay so I at least have a part of Miranda to *bring up*!!

[SylviRigden]

Well I shall be fingers and toes crossed for you too. We've hijacked this thread, it's supposed to be about the earthquake.........no earth moving here - I haven't gone to bed yet

[Louise~Nichols]

no earth moving here - I haven't gone to bed yet

Sylvi!! LOL

Thanks for thinking of us!! xx

[James Box]

such ladylike conversation!

Chris, it's a shame you don't share the joy of Star Trek with us in the Collective, what! you do, of course, realise that resistance is futile, don't you, old chap?

Sylvi, i do hope Haggle's doing well, it has been a jolly long time since we've heard how he's getting on.

Peter...i can only surmise that people have vivid imaginations! i was talking to Louise (who didn't turn the air as blue as she thinks, but was the soul of decorum despite the fact that she was scared. and anyway, that's only to be expected...i was terrified when i felt that nasty tremor back in Canada!), and so i knew when it happened and was alert to the possibilities of tremors being felt this far south, and beyond the river. i felt absolutely nothing. not even a truck going past!
one of my housemates told me he woke up at half one...which is far too late, but that was nature calling...in the more prosaic way. that is to say, it wasn't exactly shaking him out of bed

[Nicola Dolby]

Good luck Louise! As for the earthquake I went to bed at 12:45 and it happened at 12:56. So I slept right through it. Mind you, I did that with the one 25 years ago as well! C'est la vie