when i start my car, often it will set off car alarms in the parking lot.
thats when i learned that cars can, and should, be measured on the Richter
Scale.
-james c
----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens@Bigfoot.com>
> When I moved to California from Texas, I worked on the edge of San
Francisco Bay
> next door to one of the biggest BMW dealers in the country. One day I
felt the
> floor begin to move around -- my first earthquake -- and was immediately
> deafened by the sound of every car alarm in the lot going off.
>
> It took them half an hour to turn off all the chirping and flashing cars,
and
> that's when I learned that in California, earthquakes are properly
measured on
> the Beemer scale!
>
> KeS
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Guy Schalnat [mailto:guy-schalnat@cinci.rr.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 12:28
> > To: evolution-discussions@egroups.com
> > Subject: [evolution-disc.] Re: Fwd: california
> >
> >
> > > Back to California, is stopping for an earthquake
> > > a valid reason to get a re-run?????
> >
> > Or do you just have to hope that it was strong enough to knock the
> > timing lights out of line?
> >
> > And do you have to count all the cones that it knocks down?
> >
> > Do Californian autocrossers talk about earthquakes by duration and
> > number of cones?
> >
> > "That was a big one. 30 seconds + 5 cones".
> >
> > -Guy
> >
> >
> >
> > -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~>
> > eLerts
> > It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free!
> > http://click.egroups.com/1/9699/1/_/_/_/974233796/
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------_->
> >
> > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
> > evolution-discussions-unsubscribe@egroups.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
|