So who cranked the amps to 11?

doctorwho · Post by **doctorwho** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:00 am

C'mon, 'fess up ...

kiramdear · Post by **kiramdear** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:11 am

I have a friend in that area for whose situation is unknown. I'm hope she turns up on facebook soon. And I should probably e-mail my cousin in SC.

Mighty peculiar to have quakes on the East Coast.

08 Ric 4003 · Post by **08 Ric 4003** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:57 am

I grew up in California and quakes were a part of living by the San Andreas fault line. I now live in VA and right now I am in Vegas on vacation. I called my kids who live in Newport News and they said they felt it. My brother in law was in BWI airport in Baltimore and felt it too. If you have never felt a quake it is strange. You have no warning and then you are shaking. I was in the Navy and stationed in Japan when the big one hit during that delayed the World Series in 89 or 90, but felt several in the 27 years I lived in the Bay Area.

cjj · Post by **cjj** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 9:38 am

Yeah, I lived in California for quite some time and experienced a lot of quakes. I was in the bay area when the '89 Loma Prieta quake hit. Having all the ceiling tiles and lights falling on us at work was... uh... more fun than I like in a day.

But having lived in both earthquake and tornado country, I have to say tornadoes always scared me more than quakes. Maybe it's because you do get some warning of them, or maybe it's because you know if one hits your house, standing in a doorway or getting under a good solid table ain't gonna help.

Then there's hurricanes. I've never had to deal with one of those, and I'm really glad for that...

ricaddic · Post by **ricaddic** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 11:49 am

I may be guilty I was playing my 2010 4003 through my recently purchased Ampeg Portaflex stacked amp at the time of the quake , a few of my nieghbors even joked I gotta stop playing my bass if im going to start causeing that kind of disturbence...lol

jdogric12 · Post by **jdogric12** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 12:42 pm

ricaddic wrote:I may be guilty I was playing my 2010 4003 through my recently purchased Ampeg Portaflex stacked amp at the time of the quake , a few of my nieghbors even joked I gotta stop playing my bass if im going to start causeing that kind of disturbence...lol

awesome

8mileshigher · Post by **8mileshigher** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 2:57 pm

jdogric12 wrote:
ricaddic wrote:I may be guilty I was playing my 2010 4003 through my recently purchased Ampeg Portaflex stacked amp at the time of the quake , a few of my nieghbors even joked I gotta stop playing my bass if im going to start causeing that kind of disturbence...lol
awesome

gearhed289 · Post by **gearhed289** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:40 pm

I DID max out my V-4B yesterday with my 12 string Hamer, but that was after the fact.

jimk · Post by **jimk** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 5:10 pm

I had my 12 string plugged into my Kustom on that day, and discovered that an MXR Carbon Copy acts somewhat like a volume pedal. Could have been me.

I remember a pretty severe earthquake that happened up in Alaska, I think it was in '64 that shook us all the way down in Oregon. Weird feeling. The glass lampshade on a desk rattled, and the floor sort of did the two-step under my chair, and it was over.
JimK

badeggs · Post by **badeggs** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 6:59 pm

I thought I was getting a massive dizzy spell or something, I was swaying around so much...guy at my work was mad 'cause he was on the can when it happened and he didn't even notice it! Very weird experience...

cjj wrote:Then there's hurricanes. I've never had to deal with one of those, and I'm really glad for that...

Those suck. We don't get them too often here in NJ (lots of nor'easters, blizzards, ice storms, heat waves, you name it, even tornadoes on occasion), but they're not very fun. One might hopefully miss us this weekend!

Even tropical storms can pack quite a punch...

jps · Post by **jps** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 7:27 pm

cjj wrote:...the '89 Loma Prieta quake...

We were checking into our cabin at Curry Village when we felt it!

cjj · Post by **cjj** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 7:34 pm

jps wrote:
cjj wrote:...the '89 Loma Prieta quake...
We were checking into our cabin at Curry Village when we felt it!

One of the guys I worked with got home to find that half of his pool had sloshed out and through the window into his living room...

jps · Post by **jps** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 7:58 pm

Ivan3000 · Post by **Ivan3000** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 10:42 pm

My dad felt it when he was at work (Hazleton PA) and my friends girl friend felt it big time at DeSales University. I'm kind of jealous that would have been cool to feel.

philipharris · Post by **philipharris** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 6:52 am

Hmmm, dull rumbling noise, seeming to come from the centre of the earth, windows rattling along the Eastern seaboard - I think it was probably someone playing a Gibson EB2.

We get tremors even here in the UK. I've been woken up by 2 of them in the last 15 years. Somehow, though, the "Melton Mowbray fault" doesn't sound that cool, does it?

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