http://www.fascinationplace.org/2007/10/30/earthquake-time/ Michael Rawdon's webjournal Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:34:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.fascinationplace.org/2007/10/30/earthquake-time/comment-page-1/#comment-8556 peteathome Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:13:54 +0000 http://www.fascinationplace.org/2007/10/30/earthquake-time/#comment-8556 Hidden Damage - reminds me of the time we were living down in LA and had an earthquake about this size. It didn't cause any obvious damage around us other than a few cracks in the masonry of our two story apartment building. But a day or so later I noticed a strange behavior in our cat. He always sought out the warmest places in our apartment to nap. Suddenly, he started napping right in the middle of our hallway, a place he had never used before. I was worried about the cat, thinking he was ill. It wasn't until a couple of days later that I noticed a wet patch in the carpet at that spot. It turned out the quake had cracked a hot water pipe that ran through the cement slab our apartment was built on. The cat had immediately detected the new warm place and took advantage of it for napping. Hidden Damage – reminds me of the time we were living down in LA and had an earthquake about this size. It didn’t cause any obvious damage around us other than a few cracks in the masonry of our two story apartment building. But a day or so later I noticed a strange behavior in our cat. He always sought out the warmest places in our apartment to nap. Suddenly, he started napping right in the middle of our hallway, a place he had never used before. I was worried about the cat, thinking he was ill. It wasn’t until a couple of days later that I noticed a wet patch in the carpet at that spot. It turned out the quake had cracked a hot water pipe that ran through the cement slab our apartment was built on. The cat had immediately detected the new warm place and took advantage of it for napping.

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