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Crazy! I was just telling my husband a few days ago we need to take care of some emergency prep things in case God has more wrath for us on top of the pandemic. Moroni looks displeased. Seriously though, I hope everyone is OK! ❤️ 

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46 minutes ago, Scott Lloyd said:

Feeling an aftershock as I type this (1:13 pm), six hours later. 

Deseret News is reporting that one as the greatest of the aftershocks so far, 4.6 magnitude. 

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2 hours ago, mfbukowski said:

I knew someone in college who thought that lyric was "there's a bathroom on the right"

Seriously 

 

1 hour ago, Thinking said:

 

Old news, gents. It’s called a mondegreen. 
 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen

”Bathroom on the right” is one of the three most common mondegreens. Another is from Prince’s “Purple Haze”, “ ‘scuse me while I kiss this guy” (“excuse  me while I touch the sky”). 

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1 hour ago, Scott Lloyd said:

I’m old enough to remember it (I was 8). You probably are too. It was quite the sensation. First time I’d ever heard of an earthquake. 

I was living in California then, where earthquakes were an ever present reality.  This is my first experience with a Utah quake.

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2 hours ago, ksfisher said:

This is what we in Utah say when it snows a 1/4" somewhere in the south and everything shuts down :)

"You call THAT snow..."

I grew up in Buffalo NY, home of "lake effect snow".

You call Utah snow, "SNOW" !!  ??  😜😝

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4 hours ago, Robert F. Smith said:

I was living in California then, where earthquakes were an ever present reality.  This is my first experience with a Utah quake.

My husband swears there was a noticeable one in the late 80s as he remembers being with my grandpa at the time in Provo.  I don’t remember it but that says nothing these days. 

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56 minutes ago, mfbukowski said:

I grew up in Buffalo NY, home of "lake effect snow".

You call Utah snow, "SNOW" !!  ??  😜😝

One year in Illinois the snow was so deep we built tunnels through it to get out of the house and of course playing in the back yard. The drift went up to the eave of the house. The porch created a space we could walk down right next to the house so no problem opening the door...it was the wall of snow you hit afterwards. Thankfully not that thick, unfortunately that tunnel didn’t last many pass through.  Digging the front walk out took forever though. Took three days before the snow plow could dig us out. 

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3 hours ago, CV75 said:

That's one place you can go to find a bad moon on the rise, I guess...

UCLA is located in a part of Los Angeles called Westwood, the Northwest portion of the LA basin. There weren't any skyscrapers or tall buildings when I lived there, and then they built the Federal Building which is very tall. 20 stories?

It stuck out like a sore thumb.

We used to call it the Jolly Green Giant's Outhouse, to clean it up a bit. ;)

Of course anything Federal was despised by we who were yippies, as opposed to hippies.

When approaching from the south to go to UCLA, which was the way many commuting students drove to campus, one took the 405 freeway.  The Outhouse was situated a little east of the freeway maybe one block.

"Sure enough it became "the bathroom on the right. "

🤪

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilshire_Federal_Building

 

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1 hour ago, mfbukowski said:

I grew up in Buffalo NY, home of "lake effect snow".

You call Utah snow, "SNOW" !!  ??  😜😝

Like we don’t have lake-effect snow living in the VALLEY OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE? Seriously?

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7 minutes ago, Calm said:

One year in Illinois the snow was so deep we built tunnels through it to get out of the house and of course playing in the back yard. The drift went up to the eave of the house. Took three days before the snow plow could dig us out. 

Sounds like the “winter of ‘48” in Utah. It was well before my time, but I certainly grew up hearing about it. 

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1 minute ago, Scott Lloyd said:

Like we don’t have lake-effect snow living in the VALLEY OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE? Seriously?

Uh, well, er, I sit corrected. ;)

 

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22 minutes ago, Calm said:

One year in Illinois the snow was so deep we built tunnels through it to get out of the house and of course playing in the back yard. The drift went up to the eave of the house. The porch created a space we could walk down right next to the house so no problem opening the door...it was the wall of snow you hit afterwards. Thankfully not that thick, unfortunately that tunnel didn’t last many pass through.  Digging the front walk out took forever though. Took three days before the snow plow could dig us out. 

There is a quote somewhere in Mormon history about getting out of Lake Erie during the winter, with the ice so thick and breaking up that it made the passage west impossible.

Nearly every year the ice breaks up in the harbor and forms huge mountains of shards of ice floes. As they break-up it sounds like thunder. That harbor is the Terminus of the Erie Canal.

Caution, explitives. Mute sound now if that will be offensive 

https://youtu.be/7hb9lL7WDKg

 

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13 minutes ago, Avatar4321 said:

Pandemics, earthquakes, locusts in Africa & Mid East. Almost as if the Lord is telling us something 

Earthquakes happen elsewhere all the time. Why would a moderate Utahn one be any more significant than in other places where Saints are living?  If the sign is earthquakes, the Japanese one is a better indicator of end times than this one imo. 

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1 hour ago, Calm said:

One year in Illinois the snow was so deep we built tunnels through it to get out of the house and of course playing in the back yard. The drift went up to the eave of the house. The porch created a space we could walk down right next to the house so no problem opening the door...it was the wall of snow you hit afterwards. Thankfully not that thick, unfortunately that tunnel didn’t last many pass through.  Digging the front walk out took forever though. Took three days before the snow plow could dig us out. 

That's how it was for us kids growing up in the high Sierras.

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12 minutes ago, Calm said:

Earthquakes happen elsewhere all the time. Why would a moderate Utahn one be any more significant than in other places where Saints are living?  If the sign is earthquakes, the Japanese one is a better indicator of end times than this one imo. 

Maybe this is a sign that we should hitch up the wagons and head back to Missouri.

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3 hours ago, Scott Lloyd said:

Another is from Prince’s “Purple Haze”, “ ‘scuse me while I kiss this guy” (“excuse  me while I touch the sky”). 

I think you mean Jimi Hendrix.  Prince's song was Purple Rain.  Same purple color, similar type of weather phenomena, but different artist, and both are gone from this world so easily confused.  But I know Purple Haze well.  The intro to Purple Haze gets stuck in my head every time our washing machine initiates a wash cycle.  It sounds just like it.   Same tone, same rhythm and everything.  I'm trying to get the dryer to play the bass part.  I'm still working that out.

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1 hour ago, Calm said:

My husband swears there was a noticeable one in the late 80s as he remembers being with my grandpa at the time in Provo.  I don’t remember it but that says nothing to hear days. 

I remember a slight shake while living in Riverton in the 80's.

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11 minutes ago, InCognitus said:

I'm trying to get the dryer to play the bass part

:snort:

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16 minutes ago, Tacenda said:

I remember a slight shake while living in Riverton in the 80's.

Thanks. I will let him know he is not the only one. 
Edited:  thanks, Rain as well

autocorrect rant continued:  “merited” replacing “edited”?  Seriously?!

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1 hour ago, Calm said:

My husband swears there was a noticeable one in the late 80s as he remembers being with my grandpa at the time in Provo.  I don’t remember it but that says nothing to hear days. 

There was one in Logan in the 80s. I was in the bathroom in the basement and the walls shook.  My dad was shopping in a small store and the window broke.

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40 minutes ago, InCognitus said:

I think you mean Jimi Hendrix.  Prince's song was Purple Rain.  Same purple color, similar type of weather phenomena, but different artist, and both are gone from this world so easily confused.  But I know Purple Haze well.  The intro to Purple Haze gets stuck in my head every time our washing machine initiates a wash cycle.  It sounds just like it.   Same tone, same rhythm and everything.  I'm trying to get the dryer to play the bass part.  I'm still working that out.

So which one has the “kiss this guy” lyric?

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I grew up in California so used to earthquakes. There was one a few years back in Texas I could feel....barely. Only about half the people I was with could feel it and we were not sure if we could feel it more due to suggestion until we could check records and see that it happened.

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