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IF U ever lived in CALIFORNIA did U ever experience...
R o b 6:
--- Quote from: warhawk on April 15, 2008, 04:58:14 PM ---schro & marz: those were some gr8 stories. thanks 4 sharing. i wonder what tyler, robmeister, baldandre, rob6, and slysurfer have 2 say.
WARHAWK O0
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I grew up in the Bay Area and had a few experiences with quakes. You really don't think about it much until you're in one. For me, it kind of stops me in my tracks, almost like you got up too fast and you're a little off kilter. In grade school, we constantly had earthquake drills. Get away from plate glass windows and crouch into a ball under your desk, hands clasped behind your head. Or stand in a doorway. Or in a wide open space if outdoors.
When the "Big One" (Loma Prieta) hit, I was living three hours from the epicenter (and still do), but still had substantial movement in my city. Nothing even close to what they felt in the Bay Area, though. Also rocked and rolled in the Northridge one. I think a few months ago, I was surfing SBG and one hit...quickly posted a question to see if Tyler and other Cali guys felt it. They did.
It's all just part of the culture. Don't forget about the San Jose Earthquakes soccer team. Our AYSO team was called the Tremors.
schro:
Hey Rob6, where are you in NorCal?
R o b 6:
I'm in Central California. Landlocked between the National Parks and the coast!
Timmay:
I dont live in or have ever lived in Cali...I live in SW Indiana right along the Madrid Fault. Several years ago I was sitting at the city park in my car on my lunch break. I had just finished my sandwhich when i reclined my seat back ..enjoyin the warm spring day listening to the radio. I had my eyes closed and it felt like my truck was rolling. I raise up thinking someone was playing a trick on me and I was like what the hell....no one around...wind wasnt blowing ..nothing. I get out of my truck and I can feel the ground shaking. I didnt know what to think cause I had never been in an earthquake. I just sorta brushed it off thinking I was off my rocker.. I go back to work...this is when I was a manager at a grocery store and I walk in to a complete mess. Stuff was on the floor and we actually did have an earthquake. No major damage to anything structural....just shook people up a tad.
wpruitt:
I was in the earthquake that hit Atlanta several years ago. Never been through anything like it ... loud pop and the house shook a couple of times .... Windows rattled and alarms went off all over the place.
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