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Don't feed the faggot, Kiki.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Is there anybody or anything besides whites you aren't bigoted against? First you exposed yourself as being a racist when Rep. Elijah Cummings died. Now it's anti-gay.

Good grief


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Jack,

WAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYyyyyy back - from when I was a kid mumble mumble decades ago in NYS ... the Thanksgiving song ... Over the river and thru the woods, to grandmother's house we go ... the part about bright and drifted snow made sense. Then over the years the snow came later and later, got skimpier and skimpier, until there were a few Christmases that weren't really white. So your snow and cold isn't that out of line, depending on your reference point!

Hey, let us know how your water-proofing holds up, OK?

And YAY for the plastic on the attic window!

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Don't feed the faggot, Kiki.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Is there anybody or anything besides whites you aren't bigoted against? First you exposed yourself as being a racist when Rep. Elijah Cummings died. Now it's anti-gay.

Good grief


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I've got nothing against gay people.

I don't like faggots or faggoty behavior.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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You're just too funny Jack. Trying to insult someone by saying they are acting like a faggot, when the word faggot is associated with being gay, is bigoted.

It reflects negatively on your ability to reason not to know that.

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Hey Jack!

Still here, but ready to check out soon.

My house was built in 1915ish, but it wasn't one of those under-designed, over-built homes, before they had everything engineered to the last psi and lifespan year, and started using particle-board. I think it was a cheap kit home. So it was cheap-and-under-built. When I was redoing the interior walls - removing fire-and-water-damaged moldy lathe-and-plaster, and replacing it with mold-free, glass-wool-faced drywall - I saw that some interior LOAD-BEARING walls were made of scrap wood - even an old door! And over they years I've seen that the stones in the rubble-foundation - literally stones stacked on top of each other on the bare dirt - have cracked during earthquakes. I mean that literally. Stones are cracked.

AND, after my first big 'quake here a few decades ago, I called in a structural engineer to evaluate my house. He had a couple things to say: 1) earthquakes cause 'hidden damage' in wood structures, as nail holes get bigger and bigger when the structure sways, and 2) "it's a good thing there are no heavy members up there", meaning, a large beam or set of beams in the roof would literally tear the house apart as they swung with substantial inertia during a quake. And then - well, you can't tie the house to a rubble foundation, and the structure is wood and great kindling for a fire. (There's also all the lead paint, plus all the lead-contaminated dirt around the house from the paint flakes, but that's another story.)

My plan was to tear it down, scoop off the dirt, and rebuild an old-fashioned-looking, but well-engineered-and-built new 1.5 story home, with a basement. I had planned a universally-accessible, reasonably fire- and earthquake-safe home. But I found out between my purchase and home design (that I designed myself and took to 3 architects for review), that it had been designated a city historic home. Sigh. No tear-down possible. And in my city, 'historic home' means I can't - for example - take off the old, lead-contaminated, fire-kindling, clapboard wood siding, and replace it with non-toxic, identically-appearing, fire-proof cement-board siding.

Nope. The city seems to want all the toxic, hazardous, cheap, historic crap preserved. Every single bit of its god-awful construction. EVEN BOSTON - noted for its centuries old homes - is OK with replacing old crap with similar-appearing but better-functioning construction and materials.

Anyway - ASK ME HOW I KNOW ABOUT CRAPPY BUILDINGS!

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Stop acting like a faggot and I'll stop calling you a faggot.

I don't see how this has anything to do with anyone's sexuality.

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Faggot definition is - —used as an insulting and contemptuous term for a male homosexual. So, not only doesn't it apply to me, it shows you to be a bigot.

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Jeez... that sounds terrible.

I can't even imagine how much it would cost to get lawyers involved to fight that.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Stop acting like a faggot and I'll stop calling you a faggot.

I don't see how this has anything to do with anyone's sexuality.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Faggot definition is - —used as an insulting and contemptuous term for a male homosexual. So, not only doesn't it apply to me, it shows you to be a bigot.

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Jeez... that sounds terrible.

I can't even imagine how much it would cost to get lawyers involved to fight that.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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In between business ...

Eh. What can I say. Assuming all get out fine, my heart would not be broken if this place fell to the ground, or burned to the ground!

Demolition - accomplished!

Let the rebuilding begin! (You can read that as either maniacally optimistic, or deeply cynical.)

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Eh. What can I say. Assuming all get out fine, my heart would not be broken if this place fell to the ground, or burned to the ground!

Demolition - accomplished!

Let the rebuilding begin! (You can read that as either maniacally optimistic, or deeply cynical.)

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Trust me. I feel you more than you probably know...

... Sometimes I think I could just make more money off of this house by doing a badass no-look walk away from it while I hit the button on the remote detonator and the whole thing just explodes in a great fiery mushroom cloud behind me as I walk off into the sunset... and then upload that video to YouTube where it goes viral and I get a billion views.

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Twice in my life already I've lost somebody I cared about and I've had to live with the fact that I bailed on what would have been my last opportunity to ever see them before it happened. That kind of thing tends to haunt you for the rest of your life.

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Rain, rain and more rain for the rest of this week.

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Eh. What can I say. Assuming all get out fine, my heart would not be broken if this place fell to the ground, or burned to the ground!

Demolition - accomplished!

Let the rebuilding begin! (You can read that as either maniacally optimistic, or deeply cynical.)

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Trust me. I feel you more than you probably know...

... Sometimes I think I could just make more money off of this house by doing a badass no-look walk away from it while I hit the button on the remote detonator and the whole thing just explodes in a great fiery mushroom cloud behind me as I walk off into the sunset... and then upload that video to YouTube where it goes viral and I get a billion views.

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My thoughts aren't quite so cinematic. I'd have to be really unlucky for a wildfire to get the house. And though it's certainly within the range of possibility and haunts me every fire season ... ... what's probably going to take my house down is an earthquake. And I have no sense of how that would go. Sometimes they start with a huge JOLT!!! that gets even more intense and violent. But sometimes they start with a few little nothing-quakes as a prelude. Or they can start with a little rumbling that builds and builds and builds ... ... and if the quake doesn't take the house down, it could always go by gas-line fire/explosion. I have an automatic shut-off at the gas meter, but that doesn't help if the line ruptures before the shut-off. So, I have no particular scenario in mind. Other than I want everyone safe.

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Twice in my life already I've lost somebody I cared about and I've had to live with the fact that I bailed on what would have been my last opportunity to ever see them before it happened. That kind of thing tends to haunt you for the rest of your life.

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Kind of a long time ago, I came to the conclusion that if there were such a thing as perfect knowledge, no one would ever make any mistakes.

We do the best we can with what we know, and what we're capable of.

You did as much as you knew to do, as best you could, at the time you did it. Try not to feel guilty for being merely human.

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Rain, rain and more rain for the rest of this week.

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I hope you stay cozy and dry Brenda.

But I really think that's the kind of weather for sheltering, and for rest.

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This is posted just to flip the website page counter.

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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-11-13/ridgecrest-earthqu
ake-ruptured-dozens-of-faults

Biggest California earthquake in decades ruptured on at least 24 faults



New research shows that the Ridgecrest earthquakes that began in July ruptured at least two dozen faults. It’s the latest evidence of how small faults can join together to produce a large earthquake, and how those quakes can cover a wider area than expected.

The findings are important in helping understand how earthquakes can grow in the seconds after a fault ruptures ... In areas blanketed by a crisscross pattern of faults, an earthquake on a smaller fault can destabilize bigger ones, beginning a process that leads to a much stronger earthquake.

In the case of Ridgecrest, some follow-up earthquakes came seconds after; the largest one came some 34 hours later.

Researchers discovered the Fourth of July Ridgecrest temblor was actually three distinct earthquakes — magnitudes 6.1, 6.2 and 6.2 — on a trio of faults. Added together, they produced enough energy to create a magnitude 6.4 temblor, said Zachary Ross, Caltech assistant professor of geophysics, the lead author of the paper. The first two quakes ruptured at right angles to each other, forming the shape of the capital letter L: the first to the northwest and southeast, the second to the southwest. The third quake also ruptured to the southwest. The faults ruptured over 12 seconds.

The second large quake, on July 5, was actually made up of four smaller events that ruptured over 22 seconds, producing a magnitude 7.1 event, the most powerful in California in the last 20 years. In that same event, at least 20 smaller faults that intersected the main faults also ruptured, according to the study, making the zone of land atop moving faults wider than might be expected.

“The geometry of this fault network is just incredibly complicated,” Ross said. “These faults are unmapped ... many of them are at right angles to each other; they’re cross-cutting each other. In the central portion of it, they are spaced a few kilometers apart, like dominoes. There’s 20 of them in a row. This 7.1 ripped through all of these.”

So instead of earthquake strain being relieved by many magnitude 6 temblors over a number of faults, “you could just do it in one magnitude 7 by having the rupture travel up and jump from one fault to the next,” Hauksson said.

A modest fault that begins to move in a quake can make it easier for a neighboring fault to rupture, Hauksson said. In Ridgecrest, the Fourth of July earthquakes probably kept on hammering strong spots along seismically strained faults until the larger magnitude 7.1 ruptured on July 5, Hauksson said.

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It has only been in recent decades that earthquake scientists have understood how smaller faults in California join together to create a more powerful earthquake.

After the 1992 Landers earthquake, scientists were astonished to find that the magnitude 7.3 temblor in the Mojave Desert had ruptured on five separate faults.

As the years have gone by, more evidence has accumulated that earthquakes can and do happen on multiple faults — such as the magnitude 7.1 Hector Mine earthquake, about 20 miles east of the Landers quake, and the magnitude 7.2 quake on Easter Sunday 2010 near Mexicali.

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Long Thursday.

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I'm sorry to hear that, Brenda.

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Long Thursday.

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I hope you stay cozy and dry Brenda.

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So hey - I just want to keep this closer to the top.

I know most of us can be somewhat irregular posters ... but Brenda, you're usually here. How 'ya doing? Well, I hope.

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Thanks for posting back, Brenda! I'm glad you're well - and that it's holding off raining.

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Jeeze Signy - every time I think I have a stack of things to to get unburied from, I read your posts.

I count my successes at one or two paperwork things per week (not totally completed but at least addressed for now), but with my ADHD I'm form-challenged, and I have a lifetime history of scrambling paperwork, plus decades of inattention while I was too busy/consumed elsewhere. So everything involves a lot of outright anxiety (what buried landmine could THIS possibly be?), and procrastination, plus getting my nerve up to tackle another anxiety-provoking thing.

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