Hey Webfoot, What's shaking?

[Big Muddy rancher]

Did you get some shaking where you live?

Guess we didn't lose California this time.

 

[webfoot]

Nothing shaking here. I would be surprised if it did. I am a long ways from where that quake happened. And being 300+ miles from the ocean I really don't pay attention to tsunami warnings.
Where I lived on the Washington coast they said a tsunami could reach where I lived. But it would have to be the big one.
California didn't fall into the sea this time. But it will eventually. When that happens it will probably make a big splash.

 

[webfoot]

We always say we don't want to be on the road going up the canyon if we have an earth quake here. All those fingers leading up the hill above the road are rock stacked as steep as you can stack rock. Rock a foot to 4 feet through. A good shake and that stuff will be coming down the hill. Walk over to that edge and trip you might roll clear to the bottom.

 

[Faster horses]

I hate to sound dumb, but is that irrigation pipe winding through the bottom?

 

[webfoot]

I hate to sound dumb, but is that irrigation pipe winding through the bottom?

No that is the road. There is probably about 1,500 feet elevation difference between where I was standing and the road.

 

[cathy newman]

I'm in Half Moon Bay Ca. Didn't feel the quake but we got an evacuation alert. Hard to ignore if they tell you the time it will arrive! Chaos here! No place to go up and only one lane in and one lane out.
Thank God the evacuation warning was canceled. Traffic deadlock at Surfers Beach because of an accident. Crazy!

 

[Puzzled]

A friend of mine that lives in the high desert got a Tsunami alert and contacted me. A bit of confusing information out there,
At 11:15 there were reports that the tsunami had occurred at 12:?? something. The way that played out with the mixed up times,
the Tsunami Warning was cancelled before the earthquake had occurred. Apparently the one report came from a different time zone.

I'm in from the actual beach about one mile and the house is about 70 ft. elevation. Its all low ground and a river between me and the beach. To evacuate in a vehicle means dropping to at least a 20' elevation. Went through town a little after it had occurred, unaware of the earthquake at the time, everything appeared to be business as usual. Fed my cows at another pasture, 40 ft. elevation. They didn't appear to sense any danger.

The three main types of reactions here are: 1) The people that race down to the bluffs in hopes of getting to see the tsunami as
it comes ashore. 2) People that make a run for it in hopes of not getting wet. 3) People that just go on about their business, just
figure it's another routine day on the Oregon Coast.

I didn't notice or feel anything indicative of an earthquake.

 

[Puzzled]

A couple different years when working as a fire lookout, I was on a 60' tower, and I could feel the tower gently sway back and forth
when a quake would occur off shore somewhere. During the one season I was on that particular tower they sent an individual up to
install equipment designed to monitor the quakes, seismograph I think it was. All very rocky ground, and the guy had to dig down
a bit to install it.

 

[webfoot]

Some time in the lower 2000's there was a pretty good one in the south Puget Sound. Another guy and I had just pulled in to the ag show In Monroe WA. We had stopped but it felt like the pickup was moving. Looked out the window and saw a power pole swaying. When we got into the building the show was in everyone was pretty excited. That building had made a lot of noise when the quake hit.

 

[Puzzled]

We always say we don't want to be on the road going up the canyon if we have an earth quake here. All those fingers leading up the hill above the road are rock stacked as steep as you can stack rock. Rock a foot to 4 feet through. A good shake and that stuff will be coming down the hill. Walk over to that edge and trip you might roll clear to the bottom.

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It probably wouldn't take too much shaking to start those rocks moving. Hope that's not some of the country that needs new fence.

 

[webfoot]

It probably wouldn't take too much shaking to start those rocks moving. Hope that's not some of the country that needs new fence.

The canyon is steep enough that it is it's own fence. But both sides of the canyon in that picture burned.

 

[webfoot]

This is where I took the picture looking down into the canyon. We had installed 5 new troughs. The BLM had put in about a mile and a half of pipeline. I have only been back one time since. Those roads are a bit scary. Notice that the hill drops off to the right of the trough. That is where I took the picture looking down into the canyon Hope the cows don't push each other there.

 

[jodywy]

The canyon is steep enough that it is it's own fence. But both sides of the canyon in that picture burned.

Uncle and my dad looked at a 790 section ranch in Green River Utah that had a large reef the pretty much fenced one whole side.

 

[webfoot]

I haven't been back up there since the fire. I hope the cows had all the fuel around those troughs gone. We were required to put those RR ties under the troughs. If those ties caught on fire I would think it would melt the trough.