Pictures of my house torn up


"master bedroom"

bathroom half tiled

hall

living room





Kitchen with some tile


Kitchen with more tile

Everything covered so I can spray paint the ceiling and walls
( the ceiling was really rough)


Bathroom tile down

We had an earthquake swarm the last couple of weeks, and somehow I didn't feel a single one. A seismometer was installed near the epicenter of the swarm, and no earthquakes have happened since... http://www.ees.nmt.edu/Geop/recentquakes.html I was going to post some more house pictures but left my camera at home.

New House

A few quick pictures of the inside of the small house I bought. I had an ugly/cheap peach/salmon colored paint, and linoleum throughout the whole house. I will post some pictures of it torn up when I get a chance.
Bathroom

Hall (2 bed, 1 bath)

Living room

Kitchen/Dinning area

Socorro weather

We had some crazy weather in Socorro this weekend. Saturday (8/16/08) a storm suddenly popped up over Socorro and dumped lots of rain and small hail for 15 or 20 minutes, then was over.This is a picture of the rain at its worst. Aperently it dumped even worse in the north end of town.
This is a picture of the road by my apartment, it had become a river.
This picture is a bit blury because I took it while driving. This is the NMT golf course, and it is flooded and covered in small hail. The mist from the hail made it look really eerie.
This is the arroyo that I have to cross to get to work. The water had already started dropping when I got there.
Another picture of the arroyo, you can see the high water mark/debries by the arrow.
The is one of the holding ponds for runoff. It ended up completely full, and the road running along the left side was closed because it was flooded so bad (you can see the police cars blocking the road).
This is the road in by my apartment after the water had dropped, along with the new gravel bar (there were lots of these along the road) Some of the rocks were as big as a fist.

These next pictures are from the next day (Sunday 8/17/2008), and these storms were a lot meaner.
This storm had a tornado warning with it, and radar was showing a tornado vortex signature. I had thought it was to far away to see, but when I went outside I could see the storm towering to the north. I glimpsed some low hanging clouds below the storm so I jumped into my truck and drove up the nearest hill for a better view. When I stopped I saw this cloud sticking out of the bottom of the storm. Because the storm was so far away I couldn't tell if the clouds were rotating. If they were it was a funnel cloud.
This is a picture of the same storm, but not zoomed in as much. This storm dropped 3/4" hail to the north, and weather underground radar showed a tornado vortex signature for an hour. Not long after I took this picture the storm started to fall apart.
Another picture of the potential funnel cloud.
A possible wall cloud for a storm that moved in behind the one with the tornado warning. This one was almost scary to watch as it moved in. It looked like it was really trying to get strong rotation going, but could never quite succeed.
This is a the same storm as the previous picture, taken as the storm was moving out of Socorro. It is stitched together form three picture, and doesn't do the storm justice. The right side of the storm was really chaotic. Here is a sped up movie of this storm taken by someone else.
Just another picture of the right side of that storm as the sun was starting to set.

Earthquake update

Looks like the USGS put it the earthquake at M3.4. NMT calculated it to be a 2.9, but that is probably an underestimate. Lots of fun! Here are a couple of links
http://www.ees.nmt.edu/Geop/recentquakes.html
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2007csam.php

and a picture of an actual seismogram. I was going to stitch several together to show the whole thing, but it didn't turn out well for some reason.

EARTHQUAKE!

Just had another earthquake. I will post more once I find out. It is probably going to be around M2.5 again, though after looking at the seismogram from the 2.5, this looks bigger, so it could be as big as a M3. Here is the online seismogram of it. Looks like there were a few fore shocks. Once again I heard it coming, though it wasn't as loud as the first one. The main jolt felt stronger this time, there was a strong jolt to my chair.

Big Boom

I finnaly got around to taking screen shots of the video.

This is the car they blew up. A nice, redish, hail damgaed car. The lines going through the picture are from the mirrors. They made us watch the explosion in a bunker so we wouldn't be hit by flying debree. The shock wave would have hurt our ears if we had been unprotected. As it was it was still really loud.

Note the shock wave above the explosion. Though it is not visible on most of the screen shots, the shock wave was quite visible in the movie. The flying debree was also very obvious.

Another picture of the fire ball.

And finnaly a picture of what is left of the car. It looks like it may be the engine block or something. It is also possible to see how far the engine was throw from where it started initially. It seems like they told us that they put the explosives in the back seat. Due to atmospheric conditions they only used 100 lbs of explose instead of the usual 500 lbs...