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#92897 - 04/29/07 11:03 AM Re: UK friends, how are your preps performing?? [Re: Johno]
wildman800 Offline
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Registered: 11/09/06
Posts: 2847
Loc: La-USA
maybe so, yes I saw the old lady and I hope you are right.
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#92916 - 04/29/07 06:37 PM Re: UK friends, how are your preps performing?? [Re: wildman800]
Susan Offline
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Registered: 01/21/04
Posts: 5163
Loc: W. WA
I don't know.... she looks pretty vicious... probably has a 12" blade under her nightie....

Sue

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#92917 - 04/29/07 06:41 PM Re: UK friends, how are your preps performing?? [Re: wildman800]
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Registered: 03/31/06
Posts: 1355
Loc: United Kingdom.
As it happens, an 85 year old woman has just been jailed for 18 months for breaching an ASBO.
Be it said that she is a nasty bit of work. Took a dislike to next door. Tried to make out that the daughter of the family is a Pr........ and a Wh..., amonst other things. Seemed to think that her age would protect her. Wrong.


Edited by Leigh_Ratcliffe (04/29/07 06:42 PM)
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#93716 - 05/05/07 01:06 PM Re: UK friends, how are your preps performing?? [Re: wildman800]
Brangdon Offline
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Registered: 12/12/04
Posts: 1204
Loc: Nottingham, UK
Originally Posted By: wildman800
I had the same thought Susan. I keep a close (almost daily) eye on the US EQ occurrences but I thought the UK was seismically quiet and thus not built (building codes) with EQ's in mind.
I happened to catch a programme about this recently, perhaps a repeat of the one Leigh saw. Apparently there is a single tectonic plate under most of Europe, and it has cracks in it due to the Himalayas, and some of those cracks reach to the UK. It's movement along these cracks that produces the occasional small earthquake. If you go back a few hundred years you can find evidence of bigger ones. They are apparently less regular than earthquakes due to tectonic plates rubbing against each other.

We also get tornadoes. I didn't know this until a couple of years ago, when there was a newsworthy one in Birmingham, and there was another in London recently. Proper ones that took the roofs off houses.
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#93751 - 05/05/07 11:18 PM Re: UK friends, how are your preps performing?? [Re: Chris Kavanaugh]
MDinana Offline
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Registered: 03/08/07
Posts: 2208
Loc: Beer&Cheese country
Originally Posted By: Chris Kavanaugh
We Californians roll over and go back to sleep for the small ones.


I've been known to roll over for anything under a 6....

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