AliceTheOwl Posted April 3, 2008 Report Share Posted April 3, 2008 Re: The Last Word Yikes. Fourteenth floor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 3, 2008 Report Share Posted April 3, 2008 Re: The Last Word That's a lotta stairs. "Tell me when we get to Twenty. Then I'll throw up." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 3, 2008 Report Share Posted April 3, 2008 Re: The Last Word Going down stairs is easier than going up them. At least, for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 3, 2008 Report Share Posted April 3, 2008 Re: The Last Word Rolling down stairs isn't fun, unless you're a Log . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 3, 2008 Report Share Posted April 3, 2008 Re: The Last Word Nope. Though, I used to roll down hills for fun. Cape Cod doesn't really have any steep hills. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 3, 2008 Report Share Posted April 3, 2008 Re: The Last Word How about sand dunes? Those are rollable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 3, 2008 Report Share Posted April 3, 2008 Re: The Last Word Indeed, though you do have to watch out for the dune grass. It can be really sharp, and there are sand fleas in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 3, 2008 Report Share Posted April 3, 2008 Re: The Last Word Yes, 14th floor. I think the building goes up to 30 or so. And while I took the stairs down many times, I never took the stairs up; the way the security badge system worked, there were a number of one-way gates as you went downstairs and out to the street. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 3, 2008 Report Share Posted April 3, 2008 Re: The Last Word Yeah, I'm sure that's the ONLY reason you never took the stairs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 3, 2008 Report Share Posted April 3, 2008 Re: The Last Word Well, for a while there, on doctor's orders, I was trying to get in an hour's walk 3 days a week, and I would have preferred to start/end it with the stairs. The ending part wasn't possible because of the security gate thing, so I'd stair down, walk around downtown for the rest of the hour, and take the elevator back up. Didn't have any choice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 3, 2008 Report Share Posted April 3, 2008 Re: The Last Word How dare you act outside the geek behavior limits! I'll have your credentials yanked over this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 3, 2008 Report Share Posted April 3, 2008 Re: The Last Word Doctor's orders, Sweetums. And since my doctor and my wife are good friends, my wife was on me about it too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 3, 2008 Report Share Posted April 3, 2008 Re: The Last Word "Sweetums?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Re: The Last Word Ah. Nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Re: The Last Word During the Loma Prieta earthquake, I was on the third floor when I noticed a tree outside my window, that I normally couldn't see. It kept bobbing into view. That got me to take it seriously. Immediately afterwards, one of my coworkers raced out of the office. Took a second to realize why, he had just bought a motorcycle. It was fine, apparently the bike just kept wacking the pavement with the kickstand. His brother's bike did the same thing across town. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Re: The Last Word "Wheeeee!" I'm sure I'd be duly impressed and terrified if I'd ever experienced an ACTUAL earthquake. But mostly, that just sounds like fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Re: The Last Word Depends on the scale. For small ones, you're quite right. For the big ones ... which go on for quite long enough for you to become quite scared ... it's different. I understand your perspective, though. For much of my life I was fascinated by tornadoes and wanted to see one. When in grad school in Austin, I did see one. Sometime I'll tell that story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Re: The Last Word That's probably similar to my moose encounter. I used to scoff at the "I brake for moose" bumper stickers, until I saw one. Or rather, two. I thought I was looking at a big, full-grown adult female, until his mom stepped out of the woods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Re: The Last Word The tornado incident started with watching a football game on TV, then the alert slider bar comes on, with the message "There is a tornado on the ground moving west along 51st Street." At that time, we were living on the west end of 51st Street in a student-slum apartment. So what'd we do, the kid from the West Coast and the kid from Easthampton, Mass.? We went out to the parking lot to see it, of course. We got out there (with a bunch of other idiots from other parts of the world) and watched the funnel disappear back up through the cloud deck. There was a lot of trash floating around up there, and then we identified one leaf-looking piece to be a freeway sign ... the kind that spans all four lanes. Collective double-take among the gawkers. A minute after that there were no idiots standing out in the parking lot gawking.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Re: The Last Word Heh. Sounds rather like my first Southern thunderstorm. They are, by the way, very different from the relatively gentle New England ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Re: The Last Word I haven't been in New England for a thunderstorm, but the implication is that those are like the ones up in these parts as well. And yes, a real subtropical storm is quite different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Re: The Last Word They're probably similar. I have seen some chain lightning touch down during a thunderstorm up North, but it's rare. Most of it just appears as little flashes of lighting in the clouds every half-minute or so. Here, it's a constant barrage, trees get split in half, there are branches everywhere when it's done . . . Oh, and the rain! It's awesome, but I wouldn't dare go walking in one unless I absolutely had to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Re: The Last Word We get a lot of rain, but not much lightning. Lots of moisture off the Pacific, and not much solar heating as it passes over ground. Puget Sound being a huge fjord with mountains on both sides, the mountains cut up the wind patterns so nothing gets big & organized, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2008 Re: The Last Word A couple of days ago there was an earth-tremor here. nothing serious just the tetonic plates in the sea moving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebeccared50 Posted April 5, 2008 Report Share Posted April 5, 2008 Re: The Last Word the most fun we have out here are the dust storms... allways great fun when visibiltiy gets reduced to zero for all the blowing sand... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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