No, I was in Alhambra, and I'm glad I wasn't any closer to Sylmar! I woke up to the bed moving across the room. I jumped up and ran for a doorway. It was the first time I ever felt the earth rolling under me, like being on a boat at sea. It's very disconcerting when the ground doesn't seem like a solid.
Well, I remember as well how the earth rolled and jerked and the sound like a roar before it hit.
I was in Sylmar. I will never forget it.
And the shock of how that ground moved, something I had spent all my life thinking was sound, forever changed that day. Yes, indeed it did.