Did anybody experience the Kipawa earthquake of 2000 ? 1935 ? Both centered about 10 km north of Temiscaming.An old timer friend liked to fish a rock pile hump in Hay Bay for walleye in the evenings,but swears the rock pile disappeared after the earthquake !
There was also one in the 80's. I understand there is a fault line under the Ottawa river.
For sure there is a fault line very close.Hey,that would be a great place to put a rare earth mine ???
Your thinking too small. How about a nuclear power plant? It'll be perfect....miles away from anybody who'll need the power. ;) :) Dog could even run it and fish on his off time.
I lived there at the time,it was January 1st in the wee hours and I slept right through it....lol. I imagine a lot of people did ;). Hubby felt the house shake ... woke him up.
A nuke plant,hmm.Glow in the dark walleye ! Be great for night fishing !
Quote from: puckster_guy on January 20, 2015, 05:50:29 PM
Your thinking too small. How about a nuclear power plant? It'll be perfect....miles away from anybody who'll need the power. ;) :) Dog could even run it and fish on his off time.
@puckster_guy I like the way you think Joe! I'd be the first to sign up to operate that badboy. The new PWR Nuclear Plants that are being constructed are amazing, I know because I helped design and get them through certification with the NRC here in the USA.
I may not know how to operate something like a nuclear power plant, but I'm sure there's some job I could do on the side when not fishing.
I volunteer to be the second staffer.
Who else?
@SgtCrabby you are more than qualified to do the soil surveys for the nuclear basement and surrounding area...
I'm in, not too qualified for much, but a heck of a team player. I would even postpone retirement for this. Sounds like you have a major project on your hands,
@Dog.
Haha... If only I had a couple billion to fund this venture. Oddly enough it may not be that far fetched as the Canadians are bulking up their infrastructure to transport and disposal of spent nuclear fuel (I was considering a job wth them but it was a net pay cut so I passed) This is the first step before new plants are authorized for construction in Canada. Nuclear power plants are generally built in remote areas next to water so ...
I remember it like it was yesterday. It happened around 06:12, thought a train was running through the house. We all woke up and were staring at each other in the face in the hallway wondering if it was the end of the world. By the the time we got our "senses back" because after all, we had partied till about 04:00 in the morning and I sleep pretty hard when I'm in "that state". Well we all went to bed and we got back up around 09:00, there was an ambulance and a police cruiser near oiur house. There was a snowmobile accident nearby and a man was killed.
That was a strange start to 2000 I'll tell you.
I remember the 1980 or so quake too, I was close to Kipawa Lake at that one too if my memory serves me right, it was late afternoon, early evening if I recall.
Wonder what it would feel like if you were on the water fishing or boating ?
Quote from: getthenet on January 23, 2015, 03:47:57 AM
Wonder what it would feel like if you were on the water fishing or boating ?
water is cannot be compressed so my guess would be the chop kicked up during the tremors....
kinda like a really really small tsunami, same concept, much smaller scale.
Probably wouldn't even notice,would think it was the wake from a boat or just the chop in the lake !
Quote from: getthenet on January 24, 2015, 03:28:23 AM
Probably wouldn't even notice,would think it was the wake from a boat or just the chop in the lake !
When I was forward deployed in Japan we drove around quite a few typhoons in the south pacific ocean (scary as heck!) so if a tsunami is anything like that, you'd notice, trust me ;D
The worst part about a tsunami is there really is no warning as it could be a perfectly gorgeous day out and then bam, earthquake (which you likely wouldn't feel on a boat) and the first thing you'd likely see is a wall of water, Rogue wave out of no where!!!
In the typhoon at least, it feels like the water is going to swallow the boat, and that's saying something considering at the time I was on a aegis class, guided missile cruiser.
Think along the lines of the movie "Perfect Storm"...
I'll take your word for it bro(Dog). After spending many years on Georgian Bay I know whats involved on a small boat on big water. Lets just say I wet myself a couple of times making my way back in high winds and waves during a sudden storm. More then a few times I drove to the lake only to go home due to winds and waves. my boat seems to be able to handle 6-7 foot waves, but they are a challenge in a 17 foot boat. Kipawa is a real treat no matter how windy it is. I think you know whats it's like when your in a trough with a wall of water on all sides of you.
Quote from: puckster_guy on January 28, 2015, 08:40:31 PM
I'll take your word for it bro(Dog). After spending many years on Georgian Bay I know whats involved on a small boat on big water. Lets just say I wet myself a couple of times making my way back in high winds and waves during a sudden storm. More then a few times I drove to the lake only to go home due to winds and waves. my boat seems to be able to handle 6-7 foot waves, but they are a challenge in a 17 foot boat. Kipawa is a real treat no matter how windy it is. I think you know whats it's like when your in a trough with a wall of water on all sides of you.
yup... I do.. I can imagine Kipawa conditions are the worst when there are winds from the northwest in the northwest arm as that's a pretty long fetch
Dog, when you go to TBL the waves can be really nasty with a north west wind trying to cross Queens's Bay. There have been several times that we wouldn't even try, but there are always safe places to drop a line.