A friend of mine was right in the middle of the Northridge quake. After he said always keep a pair of shoes by your bed because walking barefoot through broken glass is not fun.
Always kept my boots right next to the bed, but then again for some reason I can’t stand walking on even a clean floor barefoot.
Yep, I remember. A flashlight and emergency lights are important too -- the first thing that goes is electric power. Some of the Northridge aftershocks were in the 5.5 range.