Shaky ground

• Shaky ground by R o b 6 on 30 Oct, 2007 22:21
• Wonder if any of our California SBGs felt that earthquake tonight. Just a weak rolling motion here, enough to make the ceiling fans rock a bit. Imagine it was more obvious in the Bay Area.
• #1 by Tyler on 30 Oct, 2007 22:24
• I was in it!  Felt much bigger than it actually was - 5.6.  I was heading down the shaving aisle in Target when a huge jolt hit and something flew of the shelf in front of me and another Sly guy.  We both looked at each other and said - Holy sh*t!  Earthquake!  I then turned around and headed toward the door of the store and called my wife, who was also in the store, to meet me at the car where our baby and my mother-in-law was.
  
  It was pretty crazy as people were screaming and running around inside Target.
• #2 by warhawk on 30 Oct, 2007 22:44
• good 2 know that it wasn't a major one.
  
  WARHAWK
• #3 by tomgallagher on 30 Oct, 2007 23:09
• Dang, forest fires, earthquakes. You guys have all the fun. I was in a temblar once not even an earthquake and it scared the hell out of me.
• #4 by Tyler on 30 Oct, 2007 23:14
• Quote from: tomgallagher on 30 Oct, 2007 23:09

  Dang, forest fires, earthquakes. You guys have all the fun. I was in a temblar once not even an earthquake and it scared the hell out of me.
  

  
  Yeah, it's a good time out here!   
• #5 by BALDANDRE on 30 Oct, 2007 23:15
• Glad you Cali guys are alright...
  
  I know those feelings well...damn, the earth can feel like the ocean!
  
  Funny that Tyler was in the shaving section...man you NEVER stopping working on the "cause"!
• #6 by shyslyguy on 31 Oct, 2007 02:34
• Glad you're okay Tyler. 
  
  Earthquakes are scary. I was in one recently too - here in Kent in the U.K!
  It registered 4.1 i think or thereabouts & that was bad enough. Brought down quite a few roofs locally.
  
  Not an experience I'm in any particular hurry to repeat.
  
  
  
   
• #7 by schro on 31 Oct, 2007 05:41
• Supposedly, people reported feeling tremors as far away as Sacramento. I'm about 15 miles NE of Sacto...didn't feel a thing, but I have experienced my fair share growing up & living in the Bay Area for 34 years.
• #8 by nomad on 31 Oct, 2007 07:13
• Glad everyone is OK.
  
  Just another reason for me to stay on the east coast, no quakes.
• #9 by PigPen on 31 Oct, 2007 07:49
• Glad to hear our Cali boys are alright.
• #10 by schro on 31 Oct, 2007 08:07
• Yeah, us Californians can't wait until Nov. 1st. Seems like all the disasters happen in October (the 2006 mid-term elections notwithstanding):
  
  1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake
  1991 Oakland Hills Fires
  1994 Northridge quake
  2007 So. Cal Wildfires
  last night's quake.
  
  Hope Halloween goes smoothly. 
• #11 by Paul on 31 Oct, 2007 08:38
• Glad everyone is ok and just so you know, there are plenty of homes and land available in earthquake/fire free Midwest.
• #12 by Timmay on 31 Oct, 2007 09:03
• I too am glad everyone is OK.  I have only been in one earthquake before.  Yes here in the midwest...I live along the Madrid fault and we had one here  on June 24 of 2002.  I was sitting in my car eating my lunch at the park and it shook my truck so bad my drink fell off the dashboard...I actually thought someone was pushing my truck.  It registered a 4.6 on the scale...not enough for any real damage but enough to get everyone in  a panic.
• #13 by Stevo on 01 Nov, 2007 20:31
• I can honestly say that I've never been in the middle of an earthquake in my life.  Round here we have ice storms, tornadoes, and really cool chemical fires.
• #14 by Alexander215 on 03 Nov, 2007 15:26
• Can't say that's ever happened near here, but we're getting  hit by the effects of the hurricane tonight.