Originally Posted By Mr X RAIN. Just kidding. Rain is Monday night. Tuesday looks to be partly cloudy, with a chance of earthquakes in the afternoon (morning, and night).
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub I always check WDW and DL weather. I should add all Disney Resorts as I endure another rainy cold Midwestern day! I also noticed DVC ads on weather.com...They're everywhere!
Originally Posted By MagicalNezumi ^^ Yes, but earthquake weather is in the forecast for early next week. Watch out to all those who attend that day! ;-) -- MagicalNezumi
Originally Posted By Malin Didn't an earthquake hit the Resort on the opening day of BraviSEAmo. A sign perhaps of things to come!
Originally Posted By Mr X I remember that. It was the only time I ever heard the "ladies and gentlemen, we have just experienced an earthquake" announcement. It was pretty creepy.
Originally Posted By The Goddess Mara Would you even know if you were in an earthquake if you happened to be on Space Mountain at the time?
Originally Posted By MagicalNezumi Yes, the opening day of BraviSEAmo! did have a quake in the late morning. I was standing right by Med Harbor when it happened. Nothing too bad though, but it caused waves in the Harbor. (wink) -- MagicalNezumi
Originally Posted By FerretAfros If it's any consolation for the predicted rain (and earthquakes!), it was God-awful hot here in LA today. The high was around 92, but the heat index was 112. And of course, I had to be outside helping with an event from around 10:00 until 2:30. I would love some rain right now! (Earthquakes, maybe not so much)
Originally Posted By Malin I have to admit when visiting Japan the fear of eathquakes is constantly in the back of my mind. Especially with Tokyo long over due a big Earthquake. You would hope the city will be able to handle something like the 8.4 that hit the city in 1923 and killed 105,000 people. But until it actually happens how do you know how safe you really are! I'm sure for many of you who live and work in the area this is a simple fact of life and most of you probarely get on with your daily lives without thinking about it. But for someone like me who lives in a part of the World where earthquakes are extremely rare, it can at times be rather a nervous feeling visiting a country that has 20% of the World's worst earthquakes.
Originally Posted By SuperDry I grew up in California, so earthquakes were just a fact of life. I first visited Japan just 2 months after the Kobe quake, and traveled right through the area, and saw the damage first-hand. It was quite impressive. Then within one day of arriving in Tokyo, there was the sarin gas attack on the subways and then we were woken up by the shaking of a minor earthquake. Life in the big city, I guess. But it doesn't bother me. As I said, I grew up with earthquakes. I haven't compared the statistics side-by-side, but it would not surprise me that the likelihood of serious injury or death from an earthquake in Japan is far less than it is from either random violence or drunk drivers back home.
Originally Posted By SuperDry The weather turned out to be near perfect on Tuesday, so I guess that makes a marked difference from previous anniversaries/openings at TDR. In addition, no earthquakes, and fortunately Mothra didn't attack either.
Originally Posted By Mr X Unfortunately, it had changed to "super wet" yesterday and today. Hope you're enjoying yourself anyway SD!
Originally Posted By barboy Keep in mind that if(more like when) a "biggie" hits the Tokyo area at least the architecture, compared to all other major cities in the world, is relatively new and built with quakes in mind. The city, basically, is only 50-60 years old due to fire bombs of the '40's.
Originally Posted By Mr X True, but look at what happened at Kobe. Those structures were all considered Earthquake safe, but what happened was that instead of the usual side to side motion of quakes, this one went UP and DOWN...yikes. They have, I believe, changed the standards since that one though (hopefully). But in any case a big enough earthquake will be devastating depending on the timing. Kobe was fortunately very early before the trains started running. A quake in Tokyo daytime, strong enough to crack the tracks like it did in Kobe? I don't even wanna THINK about it.
Originally Posted By barboy "this one went UP and DOWN...yikes." You can count me out too. Any earth pieces moving like giant engine pistons at a very slow rpm rate would freak me out to my core.
Originally Posted By Malin The problem with Tokyo in its current state, is that until a large Earthquake hits you really have no idea whats going to happen. Concerns about the streets being gridlocked with workers unable to use the trains, and having to walk home. The giant skyscappers around areas of Shinjuku, how safe would theme buildings be if a serious quake were to hit and started to shake up and down. Than there are those who believe the fault which lies under Tokyo is actually a lot closer to the surface than originally believed.
Originally Posted By Malin I've found this great YouTube clip from a Japanese TV Drama which shows you just how much of a impact a major earthquake in Tokyo could cause. Of course this being TV things are made out to appear more dramatic. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlkCyjwD4-I" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...CyjwD4-I</a> By the way I hope the talk of Earthquake's does not put anyone off visiting, as these kind of events can happen anywhere. But I don't think it hurts to discuss the subject seeing that an Earthquake in the 7 is expected to hit Tokyo at anytime now.
