I was next to lax living on the 5 floor first quake that scart the pelosi out of me power was out had to get to my folks all the gates were chain drive no Emergency release plus it was dark huge park west apt complex well i had a big ass pair of bolt cutters and in the trades as a civic duty i took them and cut and opened all 5 gates ha ha
Yes any time from about 6 am to 7 pm the death toll would have been imho in the 1000s also i spent the next five years quake proofing homes it was good times
Ive never heard that term before(Scared the Pelosi out of me LOL) but I may have to steal that one from you :) quakes that happen during the day don’t scare me much, especially the one a few days ago, even though people in La Habra felt it real bad, for me it was more like being on a boat, like a swaying motion, after all Im about 40 miles away so its far enough
Now Northridge, even though Im about 40 minutes away(On a good day when its not heavy traffic) damn that was a horrible quake, if that had happened during the day the death toll would have been in the hundreds for sure. The Kaiser Permanente parking lot on Cadillac and La Cienaga buckled, my Mom had an appt that day she would have been in that parking lot. CSUN, the parking lot also buckled, my brother went to that school during that time, imagine all the people in the parking lot in both locations. I still remember how the Northridge Fashion Center looked after wards, they had to rebuild the entire thing..we lost our fireplace but that was nothing compared to what others lost