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originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: Violater1
I used to watch his videos about 10 years ago, but he does too much doom porn.
You can only do the sky is falling bit for so long before the well goes dry.
originally posted by: incoserv
originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: Violater1
I used to watch his videos about 10 years ago, but he does too much doom porn.
You can only do the sky is falling bit for so long before the well goes dry.
Then one day the sky actually does fall ...
The New Madrid Earthquake has become legendary as the worst natural disaster in North America's recorded history. Aftershocks were felt from Boston to the Rockies and from northern Canada to New Orleans.
Yet, the massive quake failed to make major headlines at the time and was almost overlooked by history, perhaps because monetary damages were low and few lives were lost during the series of shocks that lasted from December, 1811 until March, 1812.
It was tagged the "New Madrid" earthquake because the little Missouri riverport was the only settlement near the epicenter. The tremors actually began along the St. Francis River, some 65 miles southwest of New Madrid, in what is now Arkansas. In 1811, both Missouri and Arkansas were part of the Louisiana Territory. Arkansas was placed in Missouri Territory in 1812, when Louisiana became the 18th state to enter the Union.
The region devastated by the quake extended from Crowley's Ridge eastward to the present city of Memphis and northward to near Cairo, Illinois. Stories about the Mississippi River flowing backwards, forests being swallowed up, old lakes disappearing and new ones created within minutes, and the delta land rolling like gigantic ocean waves all contained some truth. However, reports passed along through casual conversation tended to exaggerate things that needed no embellishment.
Scientists now know that the 1811-12 quake was merely a continuation of a series of large tremors that have plagued the same region, every few decades, since the 1600s and long before that. However, for the first time, the New Madrid quake had a few witnesses who could report the events.
The New Orleans, first steamboat to ply the Mississippi, was descending the Ohio River when word reached its crew that strange things were occurring downstream. The boat continued its planned course, even after passengers observed large sections of the bank tear away and plunge into the river. Soon the pilot was unable to follow the main river channel due to the debris and flooding.
When the steamer reached New Madrid, the village was in shambles and some people begged to be taken aboard. Others, apparently more afraid of the bellowing steamboat than the earthquake, ran away as it approached. Primitive log cabins, with their interlocking wall construction, withstood much of the jolting action. Other types of buildings and chimneys did not fare well.
The New Orleans continued downstream, amid the aftershocks, and reached Natchez, Mississippi in early January, 1812. The only problems officially noted were the navigation hazards and changes in the channel.
People on land or in small boats were not so lucky. According to reports, the Mississippi, during the first shock at New Madrid, receded from its banks then returned as a wall of water 15 to 20 feet high. The force snapped trees and flooded lowlands instantly. Eliza Bryan, an eyewitness to this or a similar event, said the river reversed its course at New Madrid only a few minutes. Later the story grew to "several hours" and eventually "several days."
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: incoserv
It does, but if you predict it will every day like Dutch does, then he'll eventually land a few right.