Anyone else feel that after shock?

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I REALLY need to reassess my emergency plan. 15-30 sec notice from the bird before the house crumbles around us is not real conducive to surviving a SHTF scenario. I would have been doing well just to get family members outside. I have a big plastic bin that I keep my defensive ammo in. Jacket, hunting boots knife, compass, lighters, fishing kit, flashlight. No gun, no MRE's, no warm clothes for family. I'm unprepared for the truly bad instantaneous stuff. I went through the motions but failed when it comes down to it. :banghead:

HELP! :confused: Time is the adversary. Earthquake, tornado and such are capable of massive destruction in a short time span. The "stuff" in the house may be unattainable due to rubble. Leaving my Suburban loaded up with survival gear & multiple weapons is just asking for theft. Leaving it in the garage is just one step better. Leaving it by the front door isn't gonna happen, you married guys would fully understand as I threw myself out the window to the waiting zombies and consider it a good escape. :evil:

Would something like priority stages work? Bag #1 absolutely, positively has to go & has the AK, shotty, Sig & some mags & ammo. Bin #2 has extra ammo, MRE's & the other gear. Bin #3 xtra clothing, tent sleeping bags, etc. Am I on the right track?

If this earthquake had been a killer I don't believe that I could have gone any deeper than bag #1. Just getting out of the house would have been dicey.

Just to keep this gun related... :cool:
 
5.4 on the Richter scale!
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BAWWWWHAAAHAAAHAAAAA :D :neener:

5.2 barely gets my attention anymore. Let me know when your driveway splits in two, fire AND water are shooting out of the street and you don't have water or power for a week. THAT is an earthquake!

Still, I'm glad no one was hurt. Welcome to our world in California.
 
Yeah, aftershock hit a few minutes ago. My cat jumped in my waterbed and we just rocked around for a while at 4:30am in the waves.:D Minimal damage to very old structures in IL. BTW, i'm in Evansville, too.
 
Slept throught it, but felt the other one in '91. The New Madrid fault is nothing to sneeze at. Last time it really let go, the Mississipi River changed course, a town was submerged, and the bells were ringing in Boston.

It's been building pressure for over 100 years. I think this one was just the start.

BTW, did anyone check the fault line for odd creatures coming forth? Pope being here and all, just wondering if the Mayans were wrong by four years.
 
Should I have felt it in Chicago? If so, that's the second earthquake I've slept through.
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I grew up 180 north east of San Francisco and when the big one hit during the world series I felt it it was not much that far away but it did make the water spill out of our pool and shook some tools and the celing fans in the house.
 
Oh man, I just realized that if creatures crawled out of the fault, the closest AR-15 I own is almost a half mile away!

Unacceptable. Completely unacceptable. :)
 
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