You apparently didn't miss too much, then. I had to bath and shave with the water from the swimming pool including buckets of water to flush waste down the toilet with. 5 minutes after the event I realized I had to shut off all the gas mains to the buildings around here because they were all sheared off. We prevented a firestorm- just myself, a retired Army guy, a crescent wrench and a flashlight. Pants, shoes were nearby for both of us and we did it!
sheez. Yep. You went through a major quake, BobS. You've EXCELLENT crisis responses. Hats off to ya.
After the shaking stopped, and the TV and other airborne objects landed, I gingerly put my feet on the floor and tried to estimate the trajectory of my flashlight missile.
The flashlight had been safely placed in my night stand which had opened, and contents ejected flying off to parts unknown.
We had no electricity but wow did we have audio - that of my neighbor screaming at the top of his lungs "GAS LEAK, we're going to BLOW, everybody out of the building!"
Had I not been made aware several times in the past of his penchant for the grape, I might have been more alarmed.
Still his screaming brought me back to reality and out of my outright terror. Still I was sure that our world was upside down. As it was inside, a ceiling to floor supposedly earthquake secure bookshelf had broken and twisted horribly tossing a large library all over my living room.
Wall to wall books on the floor was one of many obstacles to overcome to get to the front door. I peeked outside and then quickly shut it after confirming that all outdoors appeared to be upright.