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BALDANDRE:
The wife was in one of the big one's (the Northridge one 93?) before we met...said it was one of the scariest things ever..

Both of us experienced a good sized one in our home in Whittier...being a home from 1925 the thing I'll always remember is the metal weights in the old windows knocking around against the walls..

the ground turned to liquid waves..

thank goodness it wasn't the big Whittier quake of 88!

I would rather experience that than a tornado or hurricane or flood..

it hits quick and fast and you hope you're ok.... and with most modern or well built structures they hold up well against it!

schro:

--- Quote from: BALDANDRE on April 16, 2008, 11:39:07 PM ---The wife was in one of the big one's (the Northridge one 93?) before we met...said it was one of the scariest things ever..

I would rather experience that than a tornado or hurricane or flood..

it hits quick and fast and you hope you're ok.... and with most modern or well built structures they hold up well against it!

--- End quote ---

January 17, 1994 was the Northridge quake. I know that because I was supposed to fly to LA for business that morning. I went to the SF Airport thinking it'd be business as usual. Well, all flights into SoCal were affected.

Gotta hand it to the SoCal politicians, they knew where the priorities were and repaired the vital highway infrastructre in less than a month whereas the San Francisco politcians took a decade to figure out what they were going to do.  :/O

Robmeister:
Grew up in Long Beach....recall several earthquakes.

Big ones were Sylmar....in the early '70's....that was scary...I was around 10.

Happened to be visiting the folks for the Jan. 1994 quake that Schro mentioned ....that was another big'n.

schro:
Oh, I completely forgot this one...I was in Palm Desert (1993?) for an annual golf trip when an earthquake hit in that area. I believe the epicenter was near the Joshua Tree monument. Anyway, it hit around 6am and we had just come off a hard night of drinking (given it was the last night of the trip). Anyway, there were a couple of guys that were running around crazy & panicked (not native Californians). What did I do? I stuck my leg out from under the covers and put my foot on the floor thinking I had a severe case of the bedspins from my raging hangover.  :o

The best part of the whole episode was on the flight home. It was on Southwest, so open seating. I got their early enough to get an aisle seat. As the plane was filling up, a gorgeous (I mean "stop traffic beautiful") girl was coming down the aisle. I was thinking "please sit here, please sit here". Well she took the middle seat next to me.  ::) We started talking. Turns out, she was in the Joshua Tree National Park camping on a bachelorette weekend when the quake hit. She had never been in one and was shaken big time (gotta admit, the more she spoke, the less attractive she became  ;D). I was able to tell her what I knew about earthquakes and she calmed down a bit. Anyway, it was a bumpy flight (lots of air turbulance) and she was quite "endowed" up top (remember when the stewardess in the movie "Airplane" got on the PA System and asked "Can anyone fly an airplane?" and they showed the gal's chest when everyone was panicking?..........Ok, you get the idea.....and I'm not even a boob man, much more of an "ass & leg" kinda guy). Thank god I had my sunglasses on because of my hangover.  O:O

Well, because of the turbulance we had to keep our seatbelts on. During the flight, we hit an air pocket that, to this day, I have never felt anything that severe since. It was like the plane dropped a couple of hundred feet and landed on a concrete floor. BAM! She freaked out. She said she needed a drink and ordered us a couple of gin & tonics (hard for me to pass up a free beverage from a gorgeous woman). At that time, she had vowed to never come back to California and couldn't wait to get back home to the east coast (Deleware if I remember right).

Hey, I got a good laugh and a free G&T. But man, that air pocket and my "bed spins"...funny ending to a great golf trip.

D.A.L.U.I.:
I was born in San Mateo and lived in CA, boarding school in Sacramento, but lived in Reno most of my life until I went to college.  I've seen and been in several earthquakes.  I don't remember the year but a buddy and I were in downtown Reno on what was then a shopping street area and saw a wave approaching from the north down the street--the paving had a wave just like at the beach--with windows breaking etc., until it got to us and threw us on the ground!. Several times I remember being awakened as my father had me in a fireman's carry up the stairs from my room in the basement of our home and waiting in the yard till he thought things had settled down.

My two widowed aunts lived in Hollister, where my father's family was from, when the World Series Earthquake hit.  It was centered near there.  One of the old dears moved in to the others house since it looked more sound, but the engineers got them out when it turned out to be the house that had to be leveled.  They lived together until one after the other they died at 95.

Frankly, having experienced earthquakes and hurricanes--Betsy and Katrina--I'll take a hurricane.  You know it's coming and if you don't feel absolutely safe you can run.  No running in an earthquake except to dive under something that looks secure--but you don't know.

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