Trust me....don’t feel pissed.
Being close to the epicenter, I can tell you it was nothing I ever want to experience again. Best way I can describe it was a complete feeling of helplessness, unable to move due to the violence of the shaking while hearing things crashing around you, all in complete darkness.
Took me about an hour, normally a 10 minute drive, to get to elderly loved ones. On the way, I saw things I will never forget.
Be happy you were in Louisiana.
I hear you. I lived through quakes large and small in L.A. from the 1960s through the early 2000s, but I was never unlucky enough to be close to the epicenter of one.
I remember our whole house rocking during the '71 Sylmar quake. We lived right across the fence from a DWP easement that had high tension towers. Two were right behind our house. I ran outside to see what the towers were doing. They had already stopped moving, but the electrical wires were dancing for as far as you could see.