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To: I Drive Too Fast
I was in Costa Mesa when Landers Hit, I was also up at the time, we thought that was it,Toast...

Ever been to Landers? My wife's father lives there on some property she was my GF at the time. She desperately tried to reach him for hours and actually made an operator cry on the phone.
559 posted on 07/29/2008 3:34:51 PM PDT by cmsgop ( Axis of Evil = Iran , North Korea , Rob and Amber)
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To: cmsgop
Ever been to Landers?

I have been close, but probably not there. I have been through Joshua Tree, Twentynine Palms on the way to the Colorado River.

I was at work this morning in Glendale and we felt today's quake start out slow then build. I work in the basement below ground level so when we feel a quake we know it is strong and far away or milder and close by. Now the folks in the other building feel it more on the 3rd and 4th floors. I believe my building was a civil defense shelter so it will probably make it through any earthquake.

My house is in Ontario, probably 10 - 15 miles from the epicenter. I have been in California since 1962 and vividly remember the Sylmar quake (I was 13). In the days that followed my dad (who was still alive at the time) delivered equipment on the back of big trucks and some of the bridges he crossed rattled him a little.

587 posted on 07/29/2008 5:32:21 PM PDT by I Drive Too Fast
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