All of our SoCal friends ok after the Quake??
Hope everyone is alright!

I lived in southern CA for over twenty years. 5.8 is a massage.

OMG, just getting back from southern Cal, I would have freaked out!
I can live with those hurricanes, no problem!

Just a few pictures knocked down. My sister in law had some serious damgame inside her home. She lives right next to Chino Hills. I can't get in touch with my players from Chino Hills as the phones are not working properly or even cell phones.

http://www.sgvbaseball.com

I was in the car in a parking lot just down the road from the epicenter and didn't realize we were having a shaker till I went into the store and they announced that the store would be evacuated if there were another one. Came home, 15 miles away, to several items in several rooms that had flown off the shelves ... have only had one item in the past 32 years of marriage fly off a shelf during an earthquake. Now, when not having an earthquake ... that is another story about flying objects.

MA: you are my kind a woman...

Downgraded to 5.4....to put into baseball terms:

listed as a 6'2 righty that hits 92 and can hit his spots, but really a 5'9 righty that hits 86 and hangs his curve ball.

all okey dokey in San Diegoland...just a little roll...

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Originally posted by TPM:
OMG, just getting back from southern Cal, I would have freaked out!
I can live with those hurricanes, no problem!

me too!

didn't even like reading about what to do in case of... on the back of the hotel door. fainting dead away wasn't an option. !

As a native of Calif, I've been through some big shakers. But honestly, I never even think about them, unless of course it happens to be occuring at the moment.

Damaging quakes in the USA seem to much rarer compared to hurricanes and tornadoes.

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Originally posted by 55mom:
didn't even like reading about what to do in case of... on the back of the hotel door. fainting dead away wasn't an option. !

Yeah I noticed that option was mising too!

The one thing about living in hurricane country, you get sufficient warning to prepare. I am ok as long as I know what's coming.

Having been at Candlestick in 1989 for the WS, when the 6.9 struck, I find the sensation awful. To this day, I can remember the 880 freeway, which I traveled often, collapsed one section flat onto another.
Can vividly remember the video of a car driving into a collapsed section of the Bay Bridge.
On top of this were the fires in the Marina area of SF and buildings collapsed.
The amazing part is how the damage was done. From the epicenter, to SFO, some areas had terrible damage, some nothing until SFO and the terrible damage there.
I know I will never forget standing at the concession stand at the top of section 22 with our 10 year old daughter when the cement floor moved like an escalator, the light standards just behind were swaying maybe 20=30 feet and I grabbed my daughter and lifted her into the frame of the concession opening.
When we walked back to our seats, many who had been drinking all afternoon were laughing and jazzed, until everyone realized a portion of the centerfield seats had peeled away and those with TV's at the time could see the freeways, the bridge collapse and the Marina on fire.
Nope, I won't forget it and I know you can't prevent them.

I live about 8 miles from the epicenter and it wasn't too bad. Had a few pics fall of shelves, shutters fly open, etc. My 3 year old twins were at Grandma's house playing in the backyard and didn't really feel it. Could have been scary for them had they been indoors.

The biggest problem was phone service. My cell didn't work for about an hour after the quake. For those that know me, that is a National State of Emergency!

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Originally posted by TromblyBaseball:
The biggest problem was phone service. My cell didn't work for about an hour after the quake. For those that know me, that is a National State of Emergency!

Now that you mention it, I thought I heard Ahhnold declaring a state of emergency for you ... problem is, no one could believe understand what he was saying.

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Originally posted by Dooer:
As a native of Calif, I've been through some big shakers. But honestly, I never even think about them, unless of course it happens to be occuring at the moment.

Damaging quakes in the USA seem to much rarer compared to hurricanes and tornadoes.

More people die shoveling snow than in earthquakes. When I lived in California I didn't think about quakes until stuff was bouncing on the shelves.

all I can say was it was quite an experience.......

I was in the LA convention center when it happended.. a lot of non natives were quite shook up....

glad it didnt harm anyone....nor cancel the Dodger game last night.......(which I attended)

Gives a whole new meaning to shaken, not stirred, dont it! Geeeeesh!

Hope everyone is ok.