The Glade 4.0

Weeeeee.

You missed out, Screeling.

5.9?

Piffle.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Didn't feel a thing up here in LA, although our office down in Orange County said that they shook for about 5 seconds. Scared the wits out of the East Coasters, apparently.

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So when you get to heaven
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My boss is from NY and he wanted to leave the building. I just laughed at him and got another cup of coffee.

Must have slept through it.

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"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

That's impressive - it only lasted 5 seconds, right? Most non-CA folks aren't able to process that quickly what's happening, and they generally stand around going "Huh? What is that?!" and then start panicking. I bet he's been waiting for this ever since he got here.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

In a restaurant on the 19th floor of one of the tallest buildings in Campbell in the early 80s when a 6.5 hit. The building swayed and most of the people, including my lunch date (born and raised on bedrock in New England), tried to head for the elevator (noobs).

Three people remained at their seats, I was one of them.

One of them looked over at me and said "Native?"

I answered "Yes, San Jose, you too?"

He said "Los Angeles."

The one lady still seated said "Hollister." Folks from Hollister know earthquakes.

When the shaking stopped my lunch date returned to the table, angry at me for not having panicked (I already knew this relationship was going nowhere). The other two 'sitters' joined us for the rest of our lunch. Most people left without even paying their tabs, just anxious to get to the ground. The Manager comped us our lunches, we tipped well.

It was amusing as the other two regaled my date, especially the one from Hollister, with typical Californian 'this was nothing, you should have felt the . . .' type comments. My date moved back east shortly thereafter.

My favorite earthquake memory.

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"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

That was a good story, Micheal. I laughed.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

When I was in elementary school we were having an earthquake drill when the ground started shaking. I don't remember being surprised.

The 1989 Loma Prieta quake happened the day before my 15th birthday, I was taking a shower and things started moving, so I hopped out, grabbed a towel, and went to stand in the front door (the only place I knew for sure was a reinforced frame). After the shaking stopped I called out to my neighbors and... the door slamed shut and locked behind me. No one was home (my dad was working in San Francisco, across the bay) and there was no way I could climb onto the roof in a towel. I ended up having one of the neighbors break and in let me in. Power was out for a few days, there were a lot of barbecues going on as people tried to use up food before it went bad.

The 1989 Loma Prieta was a goodie!! I was working as a tour guide at Winchester Mystery House at the time. A couple of days after the big one hit I was giving a tour when a 5.0 after shock hit. It was funny to see the looks on the tourists's faces! I got them all away from the windows, waited for the "All Clear", and finished the tour.

Good memories!

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"Said I never had much use for one, never said I didn't know how to use one!"~ Matthew Quigley

"nothing like a little meow in bed at night" ~ Bruskey

"I gotta float my stick same as you" Hondo Lane

"Fill your hand you son of a *****!"

During the Loma Prieta earthquake I was sitting at a stoplight in Sacramento when my car started rocking. I thought I'd lost a cylinder or something when all of a sudden it stopped rocking. Light changed, I made my turn, went into the store I was headed to and the clerk looked at me as I came through the door and said "Whooooa, did you feel that earthquake. We started chatting as I confessed I mistook it for car trouble. The little TV they had on in the background started showing pictures of the Bay Bridge and the fallen section, minutes after it happened.

My brother on the other hand was on Loma Prieta when it happened. He and a bud were standing on the porch checking the potency of the latest crop when all of a sudden they find themselves lying down on the ground. "Whoa, thats some killer stuff man." Then they noticed the lights were out and they couldn't get them back on.

The best story though comes from a friend of mine who was in the Army at the time. He was an OR Nurse at the Presidio in San Francisco. They were in the basement OR which sits at the bottom of 11 stories of ancient military hospital. Ben was holding a man's head still. The crown of the skull had been removed and the team was in the middle of a complicated brain surgery. Ben feels the shaking and says to himself we're fine or we're toast, no getting anywhere in time before we would be flattened.." The surgeon said "Stop shaking the damn table." The anesthesiologist said "I think we're haveing an earthquake Doctor." The surgeon looked up and said. "Oh, okay, I can deal with that." Then went back to finishing the surgery. The patient survived, the surgery a success, and they only lost power for about 10 seconds before the generators kicked in.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

I was still on the East Coast for Loma Prieta. Couldn't figure out why the World Series wasn't on when I got home that evening.

Great stories, Micheal. I won't start on being in Los Angeles for the Northridge quake. Concerning the brain surgery going on during Loma Prieta, I always wonder about being in the dentist's chair if the big one hits. That would suck.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

Biggest we ever had when I was in Coronado was a 4.6. Lame. A friend visiting from the East Coast crawled under our dining room table and wouldn't come back out. I think he slept there that night.

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When he's underwater does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead?

I've been told by my parents that I slept through this earthquake (I was 1 at the time!).

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