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Unread 01-30-2012, 06:50 AM
 
Location: 7th Level of Hell
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Do you eat what's pulled from that cesspool?
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Unread 01-30-2012, 07:26 AM
 
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Default Thanks for the info everyone.........

All I came here for was information, I got a lot. As everywhere else it seems that some can be helpful and some just play games. My information coffer is full, I have my list for trip planning, thanks again.
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Unread 01-30-2012, 07:58 AM
 
Location: San Diego
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Do you eat what's pulled from that cesspool?
Not for a long time It used to be one fine fishery with some really big Corvina. I have seen guys keep Tilapia at some waterways.
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Unread 01-30-2012, 08:35 AM
 
Location: San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties
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All I came here for was information, I got a lot. As everywhere else it seems that some can be helpful and some just play games. My information coffer is full, I have my list for trip planning, thanks again.
No games were played on this thread. Good information was given and sniffed at....

Curmudgeon, should not all gas meters have the shut off you speak of?
I have never seen one.

What I have seen is a length of accordion or pleated flexi pipe in a loop at the meter, allowing the mobile or trailer to fall off its blocks without breaking the gas pipe.

One of my jobs in fire fighting was to talk to citizens about safety, I stressed to them than in case of earthquake, run don't walk to the gas shut off and shut it quickly. Same with approaching wildfire.
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Unread 01-30-2012, 08:39 AM
 
Location: Tri-Lakes area, SW MO
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Curmudgeon, should not all gas meters have the shut off you speak of? I have never seen one.
One would think it. I'd never seen one either until the early 80s when my former mother-in-law had her retirement community mobile home in Riverside retrofitted/braced for earthquakes and the valve installed on her gas line.

Of course, I haven't seen one since. But I tested the one she had installed by tapping the meter and sure enough, the gas line closed as advertised. Reset was easy.

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Unread 01-30-2012, 08:41 AM
 
Location: San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties
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One would think it. I'd never seen one either until the early 80s when my former mother-in-law had her retirement community mobile home in Riverside retrofitted/braced for earthquakes and the valve installed on her gas line.

Of course, I haven't seen one since. But i tested the one she had installed by tapping the meter and sure enough, the gas line closed as advertised.
They must not have been reliable or we would see more... curious.
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Unread 01-30-2012, 08:43 AM
 
Location: 7th Level of Hell
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Curmudgeon, should not all gas meters have the shut off you speak of?
I have never seen one.
They should, but they're a ~250 dollar option, hence most places don't have them. Living ~10 miles from the San Andreas, and even closer to the San Jacinto and Elsinore faults, I had one added.
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Unread 01-30-2012, 08:51 AM
 
Location: Tri-Lakes area, SW MO
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Fonty's correct and prudent as usual. Were we in a fault zone that would be an imperative.
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Unread 01-30-2012, 05:30 PM
 
Location: San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties
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Well, you are, how about a Missouri earthquake that rings church bells in Boston, and made the Mississippi flow backwards for three days?

My guess it would take out all Missouri's dams.

It is over due, New Madrid fault.

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three earthquakes that occurred in 1811 and 1812 near New Madrid, MO. They are among the Great earthquakes of known history, affecting the topography more than any other earthquake on the North American continent. Judging from their effects, they were of a magnitude of 8.0 or higher on the Richter Scale. They were felt over the entire United States outside of the Pacific coast. Large areas sank into the earth, new lakes were formed, the course of the Mississippi River was changed, and forests were destroyed over an area of 150,000 acres. Many houses at New Madrid were thrown down. "Houses, gardens, and fields were swallowed up" one source notes. But fatalities and damage were low, because the area was sparsely settled then.
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Unread 01-30-2012, 06:17 PM
 
Location: Tri-Lakes area, SW MO
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Well, you are, how about a Missouri earthquake that rings church bells in Boston, and made the Mississippi flow backwards for three days?

My guess it would take out all Missouri's dams.

It is over due, New Madrid fault.
Supposedly we're far enough away to not be adversely affected, nor would the dams be. But ya never know. However, house is all electric and when I put in propane, at least for the kitchen, I'll install a "rocker" valve just to be on the safe side. If the dam does go we'll simply be living on a ridge line, not a lake shore.
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