Just literally went through an earthquake in Mexico City
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It kind of sucked to be in it
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
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Glad you're OK!
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It registered an 8.0!!
And might give a tsunami from it.
Be careful!
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Our hotel was rocked. I was on the 38th floor thought I was going to be thrown out of the building. Walked down 38 flights of steps.
All my team ok. The only bright spot was LA Rams cheerleaders running through the lobby in their PJ's. Not sure why there are here.
Last week this was watching off my deck.
And two days before that the flash flood at the Mexico City airport which I was in.
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Your business doesn't take you to Florida this weekend does it?
MSN here reporting it was centered off of the coast of the State of Chiapas. I'm thinking Mexico City is at least a couple hundred miles from there?
edited to add............... near the Guatemala border.
Mexico City is about 600 miles away from the epicenter. I'm glad you're okay @justacommeman. On the bright side, at least you're not on the coast. I'm sure it will generate a tsunami.
"All my team ok. The only bright spot was LA Rams cheerleaders running through the lobby in their PJ's. Not sure why there are here."
Half naked baby doll pics, or it didn't happen.
'taint no place safe on the planet at the moment!
I'm going to go hide under the PCGS table at the Long Beach show. Maybe someone will drop something good....
It was an 8.4. Ive been through quite a few quakes. This won lasted more then 60 seconds and there was no doubt what it was. The hotel was a rocking. It evacuated and emptied quickly. I can't imagine being closer to the epicenter. Oaxaca must have been tore up.
They suspended all schools in Mexico City for tomorrow. My flight is at 4:45pm. I want out
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
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Since this happened in the middle of the night, there won't be any damage assessments until daybreak. This is the type of earthquake that will punish un-reinforced structures...
Dang! Glad you and your team are okay. Safe travels!
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a little time is one thing. did you wonder when it was going to stop after 20 seconds?
Glad you're OK man.....That's scary stuff !!
Fox just reported at least 15 killed.....probably will be more......
I can relate. I just went through a bag of 10,000 wheat cents.
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Glad you're ok Mark. I'll have to check in on my work colleagues and hope they're all ok as well.
For the first 20 seconds I was in denial. I was trying to tell myself it was something else. We had just thrown a rock concert so my head was still pounding. The next minute or so was all alarms and went I looked out the window (38th Floor) I disoriented as the building was rocking pretty good. I've been through a couple in California and one big one in Tokyo. You never get used to them
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
8.0 is definitely a mover and a shaker.
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Glad that your OK and that your hotel was built to withstand such intensity. Others structures at that magnitude would have crumbled already with a lot of casualties most especially if it was in the or near the epicenter. That is a Very Strong Earthquake!
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"literally went through" eh? So what was on the other side?
Glad you are OK.
I was so shaken up I just now remember that part of it. I'm losing my touch. Seeing them scamper was not hardship
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Wow... sure glad you are ok Mark... that is a HUGE earthquake.... I have been through several, including the 6.9 in Seattle.... and that was amazing... I cannot imagine an 8.4 quake.... There will be aftershocks.. go home. Cheers, RickO
Wow - that is scary!
My team from Mexico just departed Florida today on the 6 am flight out back home, via Atlanta.
They're from the northern Baja California region, so they dodged both the hurricane and the earthquake!
Holy Cow, glad you are OK.
That is quite the emergency system they have in place down there. Earthquake sets off alarm, cheerleaders are released, middle-aged american business men remain calm.
The pavement. 38 floors down
mark
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
WAPO story:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/massive-earthquake-strikes-off-the-coast-of-mexico-setting-off-tsunami-warnings/2017/09/08/c8114f3a-945b-11e7-aace-04b862b2b3f3_story.html?tid=sm_fb&utm_term=.a7dff366d4ff
Mexico City is built on top of a sponge. Glad you made it through safely.
Sure glad you are safe. But, PLEASE do not come to Las Vegas.
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What a summer this is becoming for natural disasters!
I'm so glad you are OK. What a fright!
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Remind me NOT to travel with Justacommeman. Geesh!
I experienced 3 minor quakes...what a helpless feeling.
The best earthquake I was in was in Japan in a hotel and we had a chu hi pyramid of empties they got knocked over
Sounds like a crazy earthquake to be in. Glad you're safe!
I've only been in small quakes and on the ground floor. Mine felt like the building was sliding back and forth on the ground.
This just in......swarm of locusts headed for Mexico City!!!
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I'll take earthquakes over hurricanes and tornados any day of the week.
Be safe Florida
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open up and swallow everything.
Takes guts to be on the 38th floor of any building in Mexico.
Glad that you are safe.
At least you have a warning with the hurricanes these days. That is not always the case with an earthquake.
Crikey, you've had an interesting week! Glad you came through safely.
Things are gonna start gettin' really interesting here in the coming day or two. My county is under mandatory evacuation now. We will bug out and flee inland on Saturday morning.
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Devasting earthquakes rarely happen and if your city is on rock (like San Diego) instead of sand you should be just fine.
Tornados happen every year in the same places ...ie Tornado Alley
Hurricanes are just going to get much strong with the warming of the oceans.
I was struck by the duration as you described it. That is the most frightening part since the longer it goes the more momentum builds. I was in the '64 Great Alaska quake (9.2) and it lasted long enough for me to be able to move from the kitchen table where I was doing homework to go to the other end of the house to get my baby sister out of her crib and then exit outside. As I walked through the narrow tile covered cement floored hallway I had to brace myself between the walls as the floor lifted itself 45 degrees rolling back and forth. As I walked back through the kitchen the china cabinet that had been situated right above where I had been sitting had dumped most of its china right where I had been with its broken pieces. Good thing I hadn't stayed there to "ride it out."
The living room immediately after the quake:
Exploring the downtown damage with my siblings. (I am the one whose hands you see hanging onto the edge of the crevice.)
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I will be at the Long Beach Show on Saturday. I'll be in Milan Sept 16 and back to Mexico City on Sept 20.- 28. I will be at the Mexico Coin Show on Sept 22 ( for real). Please plan accordingly and hide the woman and children now.
Sheet. Someone just told me we have a hurricane or two heading in Mexico's direction and one is aptly named Jose.
mark
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
You only have to worry about Hurricane Katia that is threatening to make landfall early Saturday in the state of Veracruz in Mexico. Jose should not be heading to Mexico.
This isn't very good news. Safety first, people.
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Jeez Mark, did you changed your shorts after you got back to your room? That must have been a little hairy to say the least. Can you see Any damage in your area?
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MJ, glad to hear you are OK. I am happy the hotel was apparently up to code!
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Hey Mark, you just went through a scale 8.1 Earthquake, as you now know by going through one, that is a pretty strong quake! I can only imagine what you were thinking as it was happening. Being born , raised and living in California for 53 years, I know all too well what they are like and it isn't much fun at all. The last one here that was close to the one you went through was a 7.9 located in Northridge Calif and I was about 50 miles from there and was asleep at the time it happened and thought that someone was moving the house while I was in bed lol I finally got my wits about what was happening and could do nothing but lay there and hope that the roof didn't cave in on me. Luckily, not much damage was done to our house but it put a crack in our underground pool.
The cheerleaders are there for the first game of the season for the L.A. Rams & Oakland Raiders football game to promote the game to the people down there. Heck, if you see some big guys down there, stop them and ask them if they play football and get some autographs from them if they do and ask where other players are at to get them too. I'm sure you have heard that the NFL is trying to promote the games to other Countries so someday they might be able to play around the World someday.
You were about to be struck out of collar.