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So, what’s shaking in LA?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Twirling Time, Jul 4, 2019.

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  1. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    She was later demoted off the main set.
    When I saw it, I assumed she was a newcomer to the area and unaccustomed to these things. She later said she’s a lifelong Californian.
     
    tapintoamerica, Jul 6, 2019
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  2. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Some of those questions last night were brutal, something you'd expect from mid-1980s L.A. locals before they got educated over the years by the good doctor. And she pulls no punches. At one point, I heard her reply, "What do you mean by 'some type' of earthquake."
     
    MileHigh, Jul 6, 2019
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  3. maumann

    maumann Well-Known Member

    It's almost as if the only knowledge of earthquakes 90 percent of these reporters have is from Hollywood disaster films. My favorite stupid question so far was the one about this fault causing a chain reaction of quakes on the San Andreas. No, seismology doesn't work like that. (Although fans of Volcano ought to prepare for a massive lava flow in Santa Monica today.)
     
    maumann, Jul 6, 2019
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  4. qtlaw

    qtlaw Well-Known Member

    I was wrong, 6.6 is really big, what I was reacting to is National news on earthquakes is so wrong; just because the ground shakes and bottles fall doesn’t mean the earth is going to split open. I mean I’ve seen the ground under me literally roll like a wave and of course the 89 quake. It happens. 7.1. got my attention.
     
    qtlaw, Jul 6, 2019
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  5. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Anything 6.0 and above should have people's attention. A 7.1? Most definitely. Again, it helps it's a remote area (Ridgecrest/Trona excluded) and the damage and injuries are limited. This is obviously a different story if it's even 50 miles to the south.
     
    MileHigh, Jul 6, 2019
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  6. Spartan Squad

    Spartan Squad Well-Known Member

    They got to host a couple when I worked in Ridgecrest and it was always a significant advantage. I think they could mainly because they were 8 man. I can't imagine an 11-man team putting up with it
     
    Spartan Squad, Jul 6, 2019
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  7. Vombatus

    Vombatus Well-Known Member

    Well, the youngsters haven’t had many over the past 20 years to practice their reporting skills on, so, we are getting to see them practice in real time.

    Practice!
     
    Vombatus, Jul 6, 2019
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  8. Vombatus

    Vombatus Well-Known Member

    The place does smell. We should create a thread about smells.
     
    Vombatus, Jul 6, 2019
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  9. Vombatus

    Vombatus Well-Known Member

    Maumann, yeah, and practices can be very difficult to watch.

    But we should have a great 2019 earthquake blooper reel out of this.

    Meanwhile, I’m hoping a lot of people I know aren’t getting fucked up. Base was closed yesterday.
     
    Vombatus, Jul 6, 2019
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  10. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    They were 11-man in the 1980s and into the 1990s. One year after the ban was put in place (unless the visiting team agreed), Trona got matched with Big Bear in the first round of the playoffs.

    All playoff games back then must be played at 7:30 p.m. on Fridays unless both teams agree to move it. Big Bear plays at 1 p.m. on Saturdays in one of the top five settings in SoCal.

    Paul Branum, the wily, folksy coach of the Tornadoes, said he wouldn't agree to play at 1 p.m. Saturday unless Big Bear agreed that if the teams were matched up again in the playoffs and it would be Trona's home game that Big Bear would agree to play at The Pit.

    Big Bear declined. And the playoff game was moved off the mountain to Beaumont.

     
    MileHigh, Jul 6, 2019
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  11. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    Third stringers? What newsroom has even second stringers today?
     
    swingline, Jul 6, 2019
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  12. WriteThinking

    WriteThinking Well-Known Member

    And yet, she's so, oh, I don't know, reassuring, almost, in her knowledge. She's so, seemingly, almost at ease with earthquakes, and talking about them and explaining them, that it makes you able to keep perspective and keep your head about you and not be as fearful as you might be. That's her effect on me, at least.

    You can actually easily learn something from her about the topic, if you listen, and I hope those reporters did. Then, maybe, they wouldn't ask dumb questions but rather, intelligent, insightful, necessary ones.
     
    WriteThinking, Jul 6, 2019
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