OT Speaking of Earthquakes, is Oregon Asleep at the Wheel?

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barfo said:
Sure, live inland where the volcanoes will kill ya.

barfo
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Where I live I'm at least 75 miles from the worst possible volcanic damage...seismologists say the overflow will end 50 miles east of Springfield in Lane County if the 3 live puppies in the Cascades go off like Mt St Helens on us. and I'm about 40 miles from the coast....planning is everything...you should see my bunker...if there is a tsunami I'm hoping the Mar Azul washes up in my yard somewhere
 
riverman said:
I have the secret answer for all Oregonians fearing tsunamis....DON'T LIVE ON THE COAST!
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If you mean the beach, I agree. I wouldn't even live up a river valley very close. Everything on the Oregon coast below 100 feet is in potential danger. Everything below 50 feet is just at risk any day, but as long as you know...

It is interesting where places have been wiped out by tsunami. Crescent City just over the boarder in CA, the harbor surge just wiped the place out in the 64 Alaska quake. A large chunk of the Gulf of Alaska up raised maybe 50 ft. causing a focalized tsunami.
Not much damage on the Oregon coast, but Cresent City Harbor, it raised Holy hell. They have all new great facilities now paid for by the Federal government. Damm! I wish the Bandon Harbor was as good.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
What is the difference between a Cascadia (local) tsunami and a distant tsunami?
An earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone, a 1000-km- (~600-mile-) long fault zone that sits off the Pacific Northwest coast, can create a Cascadia tsunami that will reach the Oregon coast within 15 to 20 minutes. Massive earthquakes of magnitude 9 or greater have been generated on the fault zone that probably produced strong shaking that endured for several minutes. A destructive tsunami can follow moments later.

A distant tsunami produced by an earthquake far from Oregon will take 4 or more hours to travel across the Pacific Ocean, usually allowing time for an official warning and evacuation, if necessary. A distant tsunami will be smaller in size and much less destructive, but it can still be very dangerous.
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I once dated a girl who's parents lived in Raymond, Washington. They told me a story of how they retired early in the evening to get up early and dig some clams at a low tide. They got to the coast and noticed no one there. Then they were amazed at how low the tide was. They got their limit of very large clams very fast. As they were walking back to shore the water started rising. The water got up to their ankles, then it was up to their knees, they started walking faster and faster. When the water got up to their waist, they dropped their shovels and clams and headed for shore as fast as they could go. It got up to their necks before they bagan to get out. When they got home they turned on the news and learned that people had been warned the night before that a tsunami was headed for the coast and to stay away. They had barely escaped with their lives.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
BTW, you do realize that not all Tsunami's are caused by earthquakes and undersea landslides.
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Oh btw Sly, undersea landslides never create a tsunami. It takes a displacement event which changes the the volume of the basin. Rearranging the rubble won't disrupt the surface. Since sea water can accelerate smoothly at the rate of gravity, then it can adjust to rubble changing chairs without notice.
 
riverman said:
I'd rather go listening to Chopin in my rocking chair with a good book...just nod out one last time
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well, that's getting closer to the way Tyrion Lannister said he wanted to die..."at 80"...."in his bed"....I think the next part may have involved a woman

I'd sure rather expire like Tyrion than to be crushed by my falling roof or swallowed by a river of lava.
 
riverman said:
Where I live I'm at least 75 miles from the worst possible volcanic damage...seismologists say the overflow will end 50 miles east of Springfield in Lane County if the 3 live puppies in the Cascades go off like Mt St Helens on us. and I'm about 40 miles from the coast....planning is everything...you should see my bunker...if there is a tsunami I'm hoping the Mar Azul washes up in my yard somewhere
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There's a new volcano forming right under your house. Run!

barfo
 
barfo said:
There's a new volcano forming right under your house. Run!

barfo
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surf's up! I got this! I might have to look into a thermal tap though...save a ton of firewood...if my spring fed creek turns into a hot springs I'll charge and start a health resort for Portland business dudes in suits! S2 discount applies! Life coaching is extra though...that's my bread and butter
 
riverman said:
surf's up! I got this! I might have to look into a thermal tap though...save a ton of firewood...if my spring fed creek turns into a hot springs I'll charge and start a health resort for Portland business dudes in suits! S2 discount applies! Life coaching is extra though...that's my bread and butter
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One of them youth filled sap's for old codgers! Remember sex at least 5 times a week adds 10 years to ones life!
 
I just sat through earthquake. Was a nice young chap. I’m sure I’ll see him soon.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
BTW, you do realize that not all Tsunami's are caused by earthquakes and undersea landslides.
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Look at the Oregon State Giant Killers football team. They had a player, Earthquake Enyart.
Also, there was a night club in Beaverton, Oregon, now long closed, called Earthquake Ethyl's.
Did these entities cause tsunamis? They did indeed invoke a tidal wave of emotion. How high? So high that I was left feeling ecstatic.
 
Lanny said:
Look at the Oregon State Giant Killers football team. They had a player, Earthquake Enyart.
Also, there was a night club in Beaverton, Oregon, now long closed, called Earthquake Ethyl's.
Did these entities cause tsunamis? They did indeed invoke a tidal wave of emotion. How high? So high that I was left feeling ecstatic.
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I went to many of those games. One especially was sweet to watch, OSU USC. The Beav just kept at it, handing that ball to Bill Enyart, for 2 to 6 yards a play.
Then stuff OJ Simpson every time they handed it to him. Beavs won 3 to nothing.
Ha! As a football game it was pretty boring I suppose, but it was sweet to see OJ stuffed over and over. Can't remember if he finished in positive yards or not.
 
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riverman said:
I might have to look into a thermal tap though...save a ton of firewood
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Man, I installed one of those ductless Heatpumps last summer. I have to say, those are marvelous! I put it in because I got tired of splitting wood to keep my wife warm when I am doing my boat stuff. Damn nice when I am there too!
Only need a fire during the real cold times. Had been using about 2.5 cords of wood a year, now we use maybe 1/4 cord.
I asked the wife how her electric bill was with the heat pump?
About the same.
What? That can't be!

I don't know what's up with that good new.
 
About 1977 I think, I built a big house up on the hillside above Lake Anderson in CA. About 4000 square feet or so and the main problem was, there was not a Natural Gas line to that area. Electric power and sewer but no NG. Well hell, I will install a heat pump!!!
All looked good when it was damn near done, but I did notice the very long duct work running from one end of the house to the far end where the Kitchen was with side runs off the mainline. It crossed my mind, that is a hell of a lot of sheet metal!!!
The house was done, and winter came. Shit, I had to get a delivery of wood for the fire place! The heat pump did not even come close to the task at hand. Then I got the first bill for cold weather, $600+! That damn heat pump had a series of electrical heating
coils, Three 2400 watt coils in the out flow to the duct work. It was 78' to the Kitchen's most distant heat vent, which always blew cold air.

Fuck! What I fool I have been. Who designed this shit???

Sold that sucker and went Sailing for about a year and half.

Then I built another, designed it myself this time. Two stories on a hillside. Gas furnace, but I put it right in entryway from the garage into the house so that all the duct work would be under the floor of the upper street level entry floor.
Hell, never had open the an upper level vents, just natural convection from the duct work did the task, while blowing a little heat to the lower level.

Now the ductless heat pump caught my attention like a jerk on my tether. Pulled me right there. The pump is outside, the condenser/heater is inside. Nothing lost in between!!! That is good engineering. Check them out.
Splits is another term they use for the same thing.
 
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MarAzul said:
Man, I installed one of those ductless Heatpumps last summer. I have to say, those are marvelous! I put it in because I got tired of splitting wood to keep my wife warm when I am doing my boat stuff. Damn nice when I am there too!
Only need a fire during the real cold times. Had been using about 2.5 cords of wood a year, now we use maybe 1/4 cord.
I asked the wife how her electric bill was with the heat pump?
About the same.
What? That can't be!

I don't know what's up with that good new.
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We have ductless heating / airconditioning. It's great.
 
Who would have thought that this thread would be taken over by science deniers. Shit is going to happen during our lifetimes, so best prepare.
 
theprunetang said:
Who would have thought that this thread would be taken over by science deniers. Shit is going to happen during our lifetimes, so best prepare.
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Yes but apparently when it does we'll get a couple of really good Free Agents.
 
theprunetang said:
Who would have thought that this thread would be taken over by science deniers. Shit is going to happen during our lifetimes, so best prepare.
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Man! Why wait a lifetime to get the benefits of a ductless heatpump? Surprised @riverman likes the idea! I figured him for do it now.
 
MarAzul said:
Man, I installed one of those ductless Heatpumps last summer. I have to say, those are marvelous! I put it in because I got tired of splitting wood to keep my wife warm when I am doing my boat stuff.
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You can keep her warmer and save yourself work if you make her split the wood.

barfo
 
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