Nutcase nadin 'Splains The Quake

[GOBUCKS]

nadinbrzezinski  (1000+ posts)        Wed Aug-24-11 01:17 AM
Original message
Just one note for the East Coast and those making light of this
I have spent some time looking at damage pictures.

Several things stand out.

1.- If you believe in a deity, thank such a deity that nobody got hurt or killed. Wall collapses were a plenty... that is what usually hurts people. If you don't like me, still be thankful.

2.- For those of you in the quake zone, if you are near any damaged structure, even if it looks minor, stay away until it is cleared by engineers. If there is damage an achoo (aka an aftershock) can finish the job.

These are some of them

Mostly TAKE CARE... some of us get it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1803522
She included photos of a few acoustic ceiling tiles that were shaken loose, and a picture of the same little pile of bricks that has been on TV every five minutes all day. That same little stack of bricks has had more screen time than Wolf Blitzer.

But really, is there any other DUmbass who could make such an innocuous post as offensive and condescending? Some of us get it?

Blue-Jay  (1000+ posts)      Wed Aug-24-11 01:22 AM
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1. It's gonna take some time to fix those ceiling tiles.

We're just lucky it wasn't a glass ceiling. The survivors would envy the dead.


You may think to yourself, "No one on earth could read the condescending crap nutcase nadin posts without taking offense." You would be wrong:

Keefer (163 posts)      Wed Aug-24-11 01:24 AM
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6. Thank you nadinbrzezinski...
Some of us have never experienced anything like this. (Me for one.) I live near Pittsburgh, and we felt it here. It didn't scare me, it was just a very unusual feeling. It lasted about 10 or 15 seconds here.

I have always heard pets act up before an earthquake. I have 5 cats. Not ONE of them exhibited any unusual behavior. Maybe that is because this is the first earthquake THEY experienced too!(?)

Or maybe it's because the bullshit about animals predicting earthquakes is as factual as chemtrails.  

nadinbrzezinski  (1000+ posts)        Wed Aug-24-11 01:26 AM
Response to Reply #6
8. with the conures it is hit or miss
they have been overtly agressive recently though... so I have been thinking perhaps...

My cockatiel was an earthquake predictor. The old guy used to get REALLY CLINGY before one for up to a couple of days.

 
She keeps boids. Dirty, disgusting, filthy, lice-ridden boids. You used to be able to sit out on the stoop like a person.  Not anymore.

Bullshit. But I have noticed, here in red state hell, the chemtrails are a lot denser a week or so before it rains.
And homeopathic remedies work.

nadinbrzezinski  (1000+ posts)        Wed Aug-24-11 01:26 AM
Response to Reply #7
9. I got fans and I care little for their antics any longer
in fact UNREC AWAY TROLLS.

ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts)        Wed Aug-24-11 01:28 AM
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11. I am still amazed at the lack of basic seismic updates to the building codes
Was back in MD recently visiting friends and to give a guest lecture. Nearly new house and many things that have been code for years in the west are still not requirements such as strapping a gas water heater to the structure. I remain amazed.

These are government issues, not the fault of residents.  

 

 

nadinbrzezinski  (1000+ posts)        Wed Aug-24-11 01:34 AM
Response to Reply #11
15. Yep. and every time they start talking
they don't.

It is also a cost benefit analysis. Yes we wil have a new madrid quake... we've had it in 1812... we might be overdue.

But to get city managers and code inspectors to put this in place, good luck... in Cali it adds about 20K to the cost of the structure, but we get reminders of why we do it every so often....

Not holding my breath but perhaps after this REMINDER at least mission critical structures, (a nuke plant or two) will be retrofitted. Of course that should include hospitals and fire stations too.

 
Nutcase nadin is a seismologist, AND an architect, AND a nuke plant design engineer. Can you believe those idiots built nuke plants with no regard for seimic events? Good thing nutcase caught that oversight! Heads are gonna roll.

nadinbrzezinski  (1000+ posts)        Wed Aug-24-11 01:47 AM
Response to Reply #21
22. Yes, doors are a weak spot
door frames are good, but sturdy tables are better for that reason.

And inspectors are indeed married to the book, and if you do not have a quake too often THAT
code from the land of fruits and nuts makes NO sense.

"Building code inspector" is another hat nutcase nadin wears from time to time.


The next nadinocalypse: A Category 3 hurricane coming up the east coast.

nadinbrzezinski  (1000+ posts)        Wed Aug-24-11 01:40 AM
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19. A cat three will make a mess of already compromised structures
that would have survived just dandy without this.

She lives in San Diego (in a crappy little condo, hard up against a roaring freeway), but she's an expert on hurricanes.
I hope someone is keeping her resume updated.
There's nothing worse than an outdated dossier when a road agent is given an assignment.


This is DUmmy lonestarnut's best post since she reported on corpses hanging from trees in hurricane-unravaged Galveston:  

lonestarnot  (1000+ posts)      Wed Aug-24-11 01:41 AM
Response to Reply #16
20. ****ing A.
Cats.! ****ing cats..

 

 

[JakeStyle]

Holy crap!  And to think that I live just a mile or so up the road from Nadin the prophet.  Things appear to be okay here thus far, but I'll keep you all updated as the house starts to buckle as I am sure it will.

[JakeStyle]

I just hope she remembers which hat to put on when the big one hits, it has to be confusing for her... so many hats.

[whiffleball]

She's pretty much the everything expert.  I can't think of one word that would adequately describe her mind that would be ladylike to utter.

[tanstaafl]

Thanks for the update from Nadainthebrain's latest attempt to snatch some notorioty from the jaws of obscurity, Gobucks,

Not holding my breath but perhaps after this REMINDER at least mission critical structures, (a nuke plant or two) will be retrofitted. Of course that should include hospitals and fire stations too.

Nadainthebrain, you ignorant sl*t! Nuke plants are built to Siesmic 9 qualifications. Sheesh, get off Google and at least read up on your subject a little, 'K.

And, what does SCRAM stand for?

[Aristotelian]

1.- If you believe in a deity, thank such a deity that nobody got hurt or killed. Wall collapses were a plenty... that is what usually hurts people. If you don't like me, still be thankful.

A close reading of that paragraph explains why Nadin is such an expert of everything.

First sentence is aimed at those who believe in a deity. Third sentence (as written) is aimed at those who do not like Nadin, and is presented as the counter-point to the first...the implication of the two points being that Nadin is the deity.

[diesel driver]

In my lifetime (52 years), there have been 3 earthquakes here in Virginia, compared to 3 a day in Kalifornia. 

The only way I knew there was an earthquake here, my dogs barked and howled for 30 seconds at the same time they said there was an earthquake here.

 

[Ralph Wiggum]

But Nadin, what will we ever do with those strewn shampoo bottles???????

[JohnnyReb]

So, first thing this morning I did an experiment. I built a structure from rabbit wire and anchored it to 2 cinderblocks. I slid the cinder blocks in opposite directions and the structure failed. This proves that people who live in rabbit wire houses shouldn't live near the Bush's Fault line.

[vesta111]

All in all, we people in the north east have our buildings built to withstand a Nor'easter. 

We have had a couple very small quakes in the last 5 years that did move a few homes off their foundation, not so much the earth shaking as the very loud boom that woke people up.

For those who buy a modular home placed on a slab it is surprising that the law doesn't require tie downs as we are but 8 miles from the coast as the crow fly. NH --we get the brunt of high winds ---rain from played out hurricanes, tornado's are a unique experience to us, but we do get some freaky storms that flatten mile wide trees and take out a few dozen homes.

Now in Maine, tie downs are required for modular homes 30 miles as the crow flys, from the coast, this 15 years ago.

Tie downs, what for, well hurricanes, earth quakes, wind shear and micro-blasts. So far we have not had sink holes to swallow up our homes, but sooner or later we will begin to get them.

People who live in quake areas get used to them, build to anticipate them.  They become a fact of life and they adjust their lives to the possibility of them.

The people living in the quake zones laugh their butts off on us who has a first time experience in what they take and prepare for every day.   

For those in the quake zones that are prepared for an event, I say BUGGER OFF, a 6 foot snow fall will bring you to your knees, a hurricane like Florida and the east coast would send you into shock.

Now most of us have seen the pictures from California of extremely expensive homes sliding down a hill due to mud and rain.      The rest of the country stands in awe at anyone with the money to build these homes do so so close to the edge of a hill that is not propped up with cement and timber heavy cables linking it all together.

 These people laugh at us for our reaction to an event that has not happend in 150 years, In turn I  head for the French side of my family and can only shake my head at the audacity of people to build there and not consider they have sent up a challenge to God. 







 

[NHSparky]

We have had a couple very small quakes in the last 5 years that did move a few homes off their foundation, not so much the earth shaking as the very loud boom that woke people up.

Link, please.  And no, wheels don't count.

[vesta111]

Link, please.  And no, wheels don't count.

Portsmouth Herald a few years ago,  worked with a man that lived off RT1 whose home went off 3 inches of his foundation, --  The police scam told of family's in Elden park calling in about the booms.

I had to pass his house to come home from work and the WMUR trucks were there for 2 days.

Most residents in the area of Portsmouth put it down to the 300 year old dump and the methane build up.

It is right there Sparky on RT 1 just after Breakfast Hill on the right going south.   Perhaps 5 acres kept mowed with a few dozen pipes to bleed off the Methane or other gasses that may build up after a few hundred years.

Remember the Yoken Restaurant, before that was built the town dump was behind it.  Old timers tell of dump picking and how that all stopped when the Restaurant came in.  What 50-75 years ago ??     

Check out the spot today, a multimillion spot but for the past few years, no takers.  ---Why can this prime realistate become a barren lot full of weeds?