Earthquake last night

Anna
Posts: 494 Joined: 13-11-07 Location: London
Submitted by Anna on 27 February, 2008 - 10:58.

Anyone else feel this? Biggest one in the UK since 1984 apparently.
Was reading in bed last night about 1am, then the room started to shake. I have a massive heavy wardrobe at the head of my bed and it started creaking, I was thinking fuck I'm gonna be crushed. Was pretty cool.

xConorx "facts tend to cloud my judgement"
Posts: 10827 Joined: 09-12-04 Location: Belfast
27 February, 2008 - 11:32

I was still on a bus when that happened.

By the sounds of it, this is the horriffic aftermath of the quake:

- some people got woke up - "it was terrifying, one minute I was fast asleep, the next minute I was woke up by some stuff and some sound, my life flashed before my eyes"
- one dude got a broken pelvis - "I was so frightened, one minute I was fast asleep, the next minute i had a broken pelvis, my life flashed before my eyes"
- someone's chest-of-drawers shook - "horrific it was, one minute I was fast asleep, the next minute my chest-of-drawers was shaking, my life flashed before my eyes"

wink

ftony "crews are for boats"
Posts: 3705 Joined: 26-05-04 Location: East London
27 February, 2008 - 11:37

didn't feel a thing - was sleeping like a baby at the time.

Anna
Posts: 494 Joined: 13-11-07 Location: London
27 February, 2008 - 11:41
xConorx wrote:
I was still on a bus when that happened.

By the sounds of it, this is the horriffic aftermath of the quake:

- some people got woke up - "it was terrifying, one minute I was fast asleep, the next minute I was woke up by some stuff and some sound, my life flashed before my eyes"
- one dude got a broken pelvis - "I was so frightened, one minute I was fast asleep, the next minute i had a broken pelvis, my life flashed before my eyes"
- someone's chest-of-drawers shook - "horrific it was, one minute I was fast asleep, the next minute my chest-of-drawers was shaking, my life flashed before my eyes"

;)

I think one guy got a broken leg after his chimney collapsed. All in all, pretty tame.

xConorx "facts tend to cloud my judgement"
Posts: 10827 Joined: 09-12-04 Location: Belfast
27 February, 2008 - 11:44
Anna wrote:
I think one guy got a broken leg after his chimney collapsed.

Shitty deal!

ftony wrote:
didn't feel a thing - was sleeping like a baby at the time.

You're one of the lucky ones!!!

madashell "KSW, LOL"
Posts: 3114 Joined: 19-06-06 Location: Merseyside
27 February, 2008 - 13:06

I felt the floor wobble a bit at one in the morning.

It was awful, now all I can do is pick up the pieces sad

arf
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27 February, 2008 - 13:10

I felt nothing but im considering making a TV documentary of the survivors.

xConorx "facts tend to cloud my judgement"
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27 February, 2008 - 16:51
arf wrote:
I felt nothing but im considering making a TV documentary of the survivors.

Pretty much already been done by my comedy heroes
"When things get knocked over, spill or fall out of cupboards..."
Better

jef costello "Beautiful, just like Nuremburg"
Posts: 9964 Joined: 09-02-06 Location: razorblade of apathy, shave me with your irony
27 February, 2008 - 18:49
xConorx wrote:
Pretty much already been done by my comedy heroes

There's so much more to him than that. He's actually done some work on earthquakes

weeler "temp banned"
Posts: 7382 Joined: 25-09-05 Location: Dublin
27 February, 2008 - 19:25

Nows our chance to invade the six counties.

jef costello "Beautiful, just like Nuremburg"
Posts: 9964 Joined: 09-02-06 Location: razorblade of apathy, shave me with your irony
27 February, 2008 - 19:29

Not when we break out our secret weapons.

xConorx "facts tend to cloud my judgement"
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27 February, 2008 - 19:32
guydebordisdead wrote:
Nows our chance to invade the six counties.

I'm right here, waiting. Gypsy.

Lone Wolf "An explanation is not the same as an excuse. "
Posts: 4352 Joined: 01-03-06 Location: E. London UK
27 February, 2008 - 19:32
xConorx wrote:
I was still on a bus when that happened.

The one you were waiting for when you started the pm weirdness thread? Weirdness all round then..

The Bus to Doom!! black bloc

wink

xConorx "facts tend to cloud my judgement"
Posts: 10827 Joined: 09-12-04 Location: Belfast
27 February, 2008 - 19:34

Aye the very same bus.

Lone Wolf "An explanation is not the same as an excuse. "
Posts: 4352 Joined: 01-03-06 Location: E. London UK
27 February, 2008 - 21:57

I think it is fair to say you have had quite a 24 hours all in all - earthquake, email weirdness, public transport probs, public humiliation, revols moods etc. wink

I think you have done well tbh. cool red n black star (in honour of conor's turbulent day )

xConorx "facts tend to cloud my judgement"
Posts: 10827 Joined: 09-12-04 Location: Belfast
27 February, 2008 - 22:57

What I never said I felt the earthquake - I was in Dublin fuck sake!!! I said I was on a bus when it happened wink
As for puiblic humiliation - I think I'll just clear that up!

Refused "wee fuck'n' strings"
Posts: 6393 Joined: 28-09-04 Location: Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
27 February, 2008 - 23:01

I just thought my flatmate had come home drunk and was stumbling around. He didn't do this until an hour after the earthquake, in fact.

Lone Wolf "An explanation is not the same as an excuse. "
Posts: 4352 Joined: 01-03-06 Location: E. London UK
28 February, 2008 - 02:23
xConorx wrote:
What I never said I felt the earthquake - I was in Dublin fuck sake!!! I said I was on a bus when it happened wink
As for puiblic humiliation - I think I'll just clear that up!

Christ sake Conor i am trying to big you up here, boy!! Don't look a gifthorse in the mouth!!

I thought you Irish dudes liked exagerrations and tall stories and such like. wink

Grace "Christ, I'd rather just have the semen"
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28 February, 2008 - 10:19

My bed shook around a bit and I thought I was hallucinating. It was exciting for about a second.

weeler "temp banned"
Posts: 7382 Joined: 25-09-05 Location: Dublin
28 February, 2008 - 10:28
Grace wrote:
My bed shook around a bit and I thought I was hallucinating. It was exciting for about a second.

Yeooooowww!!!

xConorx "facts tend to cloud my judgement"
Posts: 10827 Joined: 09-12-04 Location: Belfast
28 February, 2008 - 10:38

Keep 'er lit!

anarcho-punk "A burning fire of injustice"
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28 February, 2008 - 12:24

My damn beer spilt, I cried inside