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At the time my father was seriously ill due to his leukemia and had just come home from the latest stay at a Long Beach hospital. We traveled down by plane did Disneyland the day before and were sleeping at the Residents Inn near Signal Hill. My wife and I were upstairs in the suite and our daughters were on the lower level. Trying to climb down the stairs took what seemed a life time. When I finally reached the bottom step, the shaking gave way to a long roll and I watched as the refrigerator gently rolled across the kitchen floor into the dining room.

The fridge thing was surreal, I remember thinking 'nice casters on that thing'.

I called a friend of ours in Sacramento who was just about to go on the air for his morning show telling him about the shaking. the reports starting coming in about the great amount of damage. I didn't realize that morning exactly how strong the quake was.

Later that day I found it interesting listening to KNX radio where the air person would announce yet another aftershock, and timing the four to five seconds before I felt it in Signal Hill. Several months afterward I would wake up in a start when my wife turned over in bed or some load noise shook our windows.