Posted on 01/17/2005 3:45:05 AM PST by bd476
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Your door frame advice reminds me of a story I heard when I first moved to California:
There was a rather large quake which hit unexpectedly (somewhere) in the Midwest during an after work wine tasting party. One man yelled out "I'm from San Francisco, I'm going to stand under a door frame!"
Another man yelled "I'm from New York! Where do I stand?!"
That was the '87 Whittier Narrows quake, and it was Cal State L.A. I lived in Whittier and was on my way to the same school for a morning class, and always parked in that same lot, which was in the back of the school. It gave me a really creepy feeling, death hitting so close to home.
I have friends that live probably fairly close to where your family was located. I remember going up there to see if I could help clean up their house.
When those helicopters fly overhead, the least they could do is squawk through their loudspeakers what or who they are looking for and what, if anything they see.
The building was safe - on springs. The swaying up there (I had a window office) was really different than the liquifaction on the west side.
We were closed for the MLK holiday but I recall our boss chewing us out for not coming in and checking that everything was ok. Coming in over a freeway that had overpasses down. Now HE was nuts ;-)
Fortunately, I was not here during the 1971 quake. Everyone who was here, usually says the same thing - that it was far worse than the Northridge quake.
Exactly...those choppers would criscross the area shining their high power lights all over the neighborhood all night long...freaky.
Yes....Any quake I have been in ...I measure by the Sylmar Quake...Honest to God it has helped me cope with all the rest of them....
Very tragic. I remember seeing her photo on the news, very sad. It sounds as if it was a close call for you.
The exit off one of the freeways on my road to work collapsed, but my boss wanted everyone there pronto - and then requested everyone stay until the next day.
People were walking around in shock.
I remember that our street was completely blocked at both ends but I don't recall what it was blocking us in. It could have been the light poles which came down. Some parked cars were also displaced into the middle of the street - that was interesting.
There was a three story building on my block which was reduced to about a level and a half if you include that the top floor had pushed the first floor into the parking garage 1/2 way. Yet LA Fire Dept. couldn't get down our street to rescue anyone because the street was blocked.
They finally parked a street away and walked over to the crushed building. Fortunately the owners were out of state on vacation.
I'll never forget it. My sister called me from where she used to live in Sherman Oaks and said "We're having an earthquake and it's a really scary one this time!" and then the line went dead.
I was able to tell everyone in the newsroom minutes before the alert came across the wires, but man, was I nervous and upset until I heard from her again. They had damage but nothing major or irreplaceable and no one was injured. She said their cat had been acting strangely for about two days so he must've known it was coming.
She described that first day as something like a scene from 'an end-of-the-world movie', with people coming outside in the eery light, all confused and...well, shaken.
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Spose I better put my swimming trunks on - just in case.
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