Well I hope we land in terminal 1!!! I guess I will be going to a coin show on Friday after all pruebus. I'll bring the tequila
mark
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@thebigeng said:
Wasn't there an earthquake on this day in mexico in 1985? Big one?
Yes. There were rememberance gatherings all over Mexico City this morning. My office included. Messed up right? In the 1985 quake in MC over 9.000 died.
mark
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Customs refused your plane??? After a disaster like that? I'm seriously glad you and your people are okay...but geez, what a strange and stress-inducing decision. The pictures are devastating.
@Justacommeman said:
I'm in the air. They are landing us in of all places.......Houston to refuel. No idea where we go to next. You can't make this stuff up. All my people in MC are ok. They texted me all kinds of pics of the area. Not good. I need a bunker to crawl into. I'm starting to take this personally
mark
I happy and relieved that you and your crew are safe. Maybe it's time for a vacation, seriously
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@Stork said:
Customs refused your plane??? After a disaster like that? I'm seriously glad you and your people are okay...but geez, what a strange and stress-inducing decision. The pictures are devastating.
I can only assume houston int'l does not have a int'l deplaned holding barn and their manpower was spoken for already.
@Stork said:
Customs refused your plane??? After a disaster like that? I'm seriously glad you and your people are okay...but geez, what a strange and stress-inducing decision. The pictures are devastating.
You know, all kinds of non-critical stuff down in Houston could still be operating at less than normal staffing. IIRC, they had some bad weather down there about two weeks ago.
And of course I get a room on the 47th floor. What could go wrong? mark
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I'll bet that you could get a lot of money from the Vegas tourist bureau to go to Atlantic City for two weeks.
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@Stork said:
Customs refused your plane??? After a disaster like that? I'm seriously glad you and your people are okay...but geez, what a strange and stress-inducing decision. The pictures are devastating.
Yes Houston is still reeling. They didn't know what to do with us. Literally no hotel rooms in Houston. Plus they must have known that Mexico City Airport was going to open back up. I would have deplaned and went to LA from there if they would have let us off the plane. Was not an option
BTW two hours before the quake our office building practiced an earthquake drill
mark
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@MsMorrisine said:
A magnitude-3.6 earthquake hit Los Angeles late Monday. Experts said it was unlikely to cause any serious damage.
The quake struck nearly 4 miles northwest of Westwood at 11.20 p.m. local time. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
Some irony. I'm on a plane in Frankfort waiting to take off for Mexico City. My wife is in LA ( where we live) and will join me there this weekend. We can run but we can not hide.
You're not going to Italy, are you?
I've got friends going to vacation there, and rather not have Vesuvius erupt while they're there...
Just left Milan. Frankfort was a connection. Your friends are safe
Mark
I flew out of Milan on the 18th. I'm sure I slept far better not knowing you were there.
Andy Lustig
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic. Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
Unbelievable.... Mark, this is incredible.... and now on the 47th floor? Well... rock and roll..... aftershocks should be interesting. Seriously, best of luck... Cheers, RickO
Professional Numismatist, Retired. 55 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner of the PNG's 2026 Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
Man, I think you need to plan a trip to North Korea. Maybe you can take care of that problem.
Seriously, stay safe and I hope the aftershocks aren't too bad. I've heard in some rare cases aftershocks can be more powerful than the primary quake.
I'm in the PNW and I've been watching all these massive quakes hitting all over the Pacific Rim. I'm just wondering when our time is coming. I know it's coming..
The news is all about the fact that there have been NO aftershocks at all. Stay safe!
I don't know much about earthquakes, but that doesn't sound good, I thought aftershocks were the release of additional stress.
On the local news they have reported we have had 11 aftershocks. One at 4.0. However normally you get one at a point lower then the major one. In this case we didn't get a 6.1....... I'm sending everyone in my office home after lunch. Hard to work today
m
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@pruebas said:
Mark, if it is any consolation to you, I just received word that the coin show will proceed as planned. Those numismatists are a hardy bunch.
Apparently so, but I'm sure glad I didn't consign to the auction this year!
Andy Lustig
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic. Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
Yeah, this high floor thing ain't working out. The elevator alarms went off and are all out of service cuz of the quake.
mark
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@pruebas said:
Mark, if it is any consolation to you, I just received word that the coin show will proceed as planned. Those numismatists are a hardy bunch.
Apparently so, but I'm sure glad I didn't consign to the auction this year!
Good move.
The show was a ghost town today. The auction most certainly won't do well for the consignors.
Historically, speaking of plate tectonics....If I remember my Engineering courses correctly [been a long time], I think New England seismic activity/potential is much greater than anything in California or the West Coast
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@1630Boston said:
Historically, speaking of plate tectonics....If I remember my Engineering courses correctly [been a long time], I think New England seismic activity/potential is much greater than anything in California or the West Coast
I do not think that is correct. The North American plate is moving steadily westward with the adjacent ocean floor moving at the same rate. Nothing to build up pressure.
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@1630Boston said:
Historically, speaking of plate tectonics....If I remember my Engineering courses correctly [been a long time], I think New England seismic activity/potential is much greater than anything in California or the West Coast
I do not think that is correct. The North American plate is moving steadily westward with the adjacent ocean floor moving at the same rate. Nothing to build up pressure.
As I recall, they had just started teaching about the earth's moving plates when I was in school. I agree with the Captain. The West coast is much more active.
@1630Boston said:
Historically, speaking of plate tectonics....If I remember my Engineering courses correctly [been a long time], I think New England seismic activity/potential is much greater than anything in California or the West Coast
I do not think that is correct. The North American plate is moving steadily westward with the adjacent ocean floor moving at the same rate. Nothing to build up pressure.
As I recall, they had just started teaching about the earth's moving plates when I was in school.
If you were in school post 1964 that would be correct. Up until then there were several competing theories, but it was not until after study of the Great Alaska Earthquake in 1964 that the Plate Tectonics theory emerged as universally accepted.
In California any quake up to about a 5.0 isn't even a blip on our radar. We ride them like a wave on a surfboard. The rolling ones are the most fun. The side to side shaking ones, not so much.
@1630Boston said:
Historically, speaking of plate tectonics....If I remember my Engineering courses correctly [been a long time], I think New England seismic activity/potential is much greater than anything in California or the West Coast
It did about 500 million years ago. (Look up the Taconic Mountains, the result of the plate collisions about 450 million years ago.) Things have changed a little since then. Did you take your engineering course a couple million years ago? ;-)
Lately (past 70 million years), it's been the Pacific Plate digging under the North American Plate. That collision uplifted the western third of North America, drained the inland sea, and created the Rockies (twice), Cascades and Sierra Nevadas. That collision is still occurring today at a rate of about 2 inches per year along the San Andreas fault, making activity on the West Coast a much bigger problem today than the East Coast.
That doesn't mean you won't get seismic activity on the East Coast, but it won't be comparable to what'll happen when the faults in Western California/Oregon/Washington slip.
The first Rocky Mountains rose around 300,000,000 years ago and were completely eroded away by 70,000,000 y.a. The material washed away formed the sandstone that you can see in the Garden of the Gods, pushed up when the second Rocky Mountains then pushed up.
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When I retired, I moved from seismically active Washington State to NYS.... a few months later, while sitting at my desk at home... a 3.3 quake shook the area.... Really surprised me... Then I found that some major fault lines run through this area.... and minor quakes are not uncommon. Cheers, RickO
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Well I hope we land in terminal 1!!! I guess I will be going to a coin show on Friday after all pruebus. I'll bring the tequila
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......
Wasn't there an earthquake on this day in mexico in 1985? Big one?
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Yes. There were rememberance gatherings all over Mexico City this morning. My office included. Messed up right? In the 1985 quake in MC over 9.000 died.
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......
term 2 was in the news as reopened but the pics showed a lot of cosmetic damage mess, plus the obvious disjointed material above.
I wonder if any serious stuff is under that cosmetic mess
I'm glad your ok man.
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Customs refused your plane??? After a disaster like that? I'm seriously glad you and your people are okay...but geez, what a strange and stress-inducing decision. The pictures are devastating.
I happy and relieved that you and your crew are safe. Maybe it's time for a vacation, seriously
If you get diverted from MC, DO NOT let them take you to Puerto Rico tonight. Just a heads up.
I can only assume houston int'l does not have a int'l deplaned holding barn and their manpower was spoken for already.
You know, all kinds of non-critical stuff down in Houston could still be operating at less than normal staffing. IIRC, they had some bad weather down there about two weeks ago.
And of course I get a room on the 47th floor. What could go wrong? 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......
I'll bet that you could get a lot of money from the Vegas tourist bureau to go to Atlantic City for two weeks.
Yes Houston is still reeling. They didn't know what to do with us. Literally no hotel rooms in Houston. Plus they must have known that Mexico City Airport was going to open back up. I would have deplaned and went to LA from there if they would have let us off the plane. Was not an option
BTW two hours before the quake our office building practiced an earthquake drill
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......
I flew out of Milan on the 18th. I'm sure I slept far better not knowing you were there.
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
Mark, if it is any consolation to you, I just received word that the coin show will proceed as planned. Those numismatists are a hardy bunch.
The host hotel is already such a dump a little earthquake can't make it much worse.
Damn Mark. Go buy yourself a BASE jumping parachute just in case brother.
Unbelievable.... Mark, this is incredible.... and now on the 47th floor? Well... rock and roll..... aftershocks should be interesting. Seriously, best of luck... Cheers, RickO
How are the aftershocks?
Man, I think you need to plan a trip to North Korea. Maybe you can take care of that problem.
Seriously, stay safe and I hope the aftershocks aren't too bad. I've heard in some rare cases aftershocks can be more powerful than the primary quake.
I'm in the PNW and I've been watching all these massive quakes hitting all over the Pacific Rim. I'm just wondering when our time is coming. I know it's coming..
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
The news is all about the fact that there have been NO aftershocks at all. Stay safe!
Didn't some guy do that before WWII and ended up on an island in the Pacific that didn't remain so peaceful?
On the local news they have reported we have had 11 aftershocks. One at 4.0. However normally you get one at a point lower then the major one. In this case we didn't get a 6.1....... I'm sending everyone in my office home after lunch. Hard to work today
m
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......
Praying for the best and glad you are safe
Apparently so, but I'm sure glad I didn't consign to the auction this year!
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Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
Mark, you need a vacation. May I not suggest Hawaii. Thank you. ;-)
Yeah, this high floor thing ain't working out. The elevator alarms went off and are all out of service cuz of the quake.
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......
I think your to high up for bed sheets J/K Get home safe.
Good move.
The show was a ghost town today. The auction most certainly won't do well for the consignors.
Historically, speaking of plate tectonics....If I remember my Engineering courses correctly [been a long time], I think New England seismic activity/potential is much greater than anything in California or the West Coast
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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......
I do not think that is correct. The North American plate is moving steadily westward with the adjacent ocean floor moving at the same rate. Nothing to build up pressure.
As I recall, they had just started teaching about the earth's moving plates when I was in school. I agree with the Captain. The West coast is much more active.
If you were in school post 1964 that would be correct. Up until then there were several competing theories, but it was not until after study of the Great Alaska Earthquake in 1964 that the Plate Tectonics theory emerged as universally accepted.
The biggest issue with earthquakes East of the Mississippi is pretty much the same issue as Mexico City has. Smaller Earthquakes are amplified.
In California any quake up to about a 5.0 isn't even a blip on our radar. We ride them like a wave on a surfboard. The rolling ones are the most fun. The side to side shaking ones, not so much.
It did about 500 million years ago. (Look up the Taconic Mountains, the result of the plate collisions about 450 million years ago.) Things have changed a little since then. Did you take your engineering course a couple million years ago? ;-)
Lately (past 70 million years), it's been the Pacific Plate digging under the North American Plate. That collision uplifted the western third of North America, drained the inland sea, and created the Rockies (twice), Cascades and Sierra Nevadas. That collision is still occurring today at a rate of about 2 inches per year along the San Andreas fault, making activity on the West Coast a much bigger problem today than the East Coast.
That doesn't mean you won't get seismic activity on the East Coast, but it won't be comparable to what'll happen when the faults in Western California/Oregon/Washington slip.
The first Rocky Mountains rose around 300,000,000 years ago and were completely eroded away by 70,000,000 y.a. The material washed away formed the sandstone that you can see in the Garden of the Gods, pushed up when the second Rocky Mountains then pushed up.
another and another ?
When I retired, I moved from seismically active Washington State to NYS.... a few months later, while sitting at my desk at home... a 3.3 quake shook the area.... Really surprised me... Then I found that some major fault lines run through this area.... and minor quakes are not uncommon. Cheers, RickO