Anybody else in CA feel the quake about 15 minutes ago? My heart is still racing! I heard it was a 6.5 and centered about 60 miles north of here, around Hearst Castle. Just knocked a bunch of books off of the shelfs in my office. It will be interesting to see if anything fell in my shop. I guess I will see tonight. Neal
OOOHHH!!ahhhh!! earthquake!!!!!, I didn't believe we had one, I'm off a cliff in malibu at work and this building shakes all the time.
so wierd my girlfriend was 2 blocks away and felt it in her car , while I was sitting here at the house and didn't feal a thing.
I went drinking on saturday night and just had some spinning flashbacks. I was watching my jacket swing back and forth for about 30 or so seconds here at work in Sherman Oaks. That was a pretty long tremor. Good fun as long as no one is hurt. -Dane
I usually have a hair-trigger for such things, but I missed this one... hallway outside my cube has cardboard for flooring, or something, everything shakes around here, so i didn't notice it as a quake... 25 miles away from Paso Robles, it was...
I'm on the top floor of a building in Irvine right now and we went for quite a ride. My wife didn't even feel it. 6.7 in San Simeon with 4.7 aftershock in Cambria.
I felt the San Francisco quake here in Idaho 2 ways. I took off work to watch the world series that was postponed. I Found out later that some parts I ordered got squashed in a truck on the freeway collapse. Lucky for me they were repop parts. I heard the driver was OK.
[ QUOTE ] I'll take tornados over earthquakes, you can see them coming. [/ QUOTE ] I'm with you! I have a friend that came from Cal. He's scared shitless of a thunder storm, but said the ground moving don't bother him. Hell he's strange to me anyway, he'll go out in the the yard and grab up a rattle snake, but runs like hell from a June bug, go figure that out.
Neal, I didn't feel anything up here in SF Bay Area. BTW for those that don't live in (usual) earthquake country, no matter where you live there is some form of natural disasters that you have to deal with. Out here on the left coast we just accept that earthquakes happen. I think what scares middle and east coast types is that an earthquake does not give any notice, it just happens.
I talked to a few people. Lots of damage, but luckily no injuries yet. An historic brick building in downtown Paso is a complete loss. I heard a building in Atascadero fell also, not confirmed. A friend who restores old M/C's had 3 bikes fall off of stands. One fell on his wifes recently restored 55 T-Bird. My wife just went home, the inside of our house is filled with broken glass. Most everything came off of the walls, shelves, and a few cabinets. Water on the floors from the toilets and fish tank. My brother looked in my shop. A bunch of stuff fell over, but the only damage he saw was a Chrysler Hemi crank fell onto a stack of some cool old hubcaps, but it missed my GMC fender luckily. I guess I get to clean up tonite. Neal
I'm just north of San Francisco and we felt it. Hope that brick building in Paso wasn't the old hotel. I heard it was centered in Paso.
[ QUOTE ] I'm just north of San Francisco and we felt it. Hope that brick building in Paso wasn't the old hotel. I heard it was centered in Paso. [/ QUOTE ] No, I haven't heard about the PR Inn, but the building that fell was Pan Jewelers. It was the one with the clock-tower accross from the park. It looked like this... Neal
lol up here in hillbilly ND its not even on the news yet! I hope nothing HAMBer owned got wrecked! Empty your diapers and go check it out! Briggs
Damn, thats a sizable quake, thats one thing we share with California, they don't call us the shakey isles for nothing. Hope everyone's o.k. Last one I had anything to do with was in the midle of the night in a hotel on the way back from this years Palmy swap meet, damn thing woke me up but it wasn't till the morning I found out what it was (same thing happened when I was a kid) far enough away to do no damage but enough to triger the "radar" and wake me.
Neal glad to hear your ok, I thought about you when this thing hit. We felt it in a big way on the Monterey Peninsula, this is a sucky way to start Christmas. I heard three are known to be dead at this time, I hope that number does not get larger. It really sucks that downtown Paso was hit as it is a really cool place, I remember Santa Cruz after Loma Prieta and how it changed the downtown. Hope evryone lese from the Central Coast on the HAMB is OK. Ted
Now, I slept thru half of the Northridge one, thats how minor it felt compared to Loma Prieta, THAT fugger was the biggest scariest one I've ever had anything to do with, and I was 60+ (?, Walnut Creek) miles from the epicenter...
I felt it down here in OC. Everybody at my work thought I was nuts until the news came on. Hope all of the Central Cali HAMBers are well.
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