OT: The Great Earthshake!

[JamesG]

...James <-- Slept thru the "Great SE Earthquake of 03"

You're outside of CA so you wouldn't have felt it even if you wanted to...
It's sad to find out that people were injured and/or killed.    My grandma lives in southern CA but more inland. When I called to check on her, she says she was asleep and didn't feel a thing.

Naw, back last Summer we had our once every 20~30 yr. earthquake. Supposedly 5. something.  It didn't even wake me up and I even had Nat. Guard drill that weekend....

But seriously,  I know how dangerous they can be and I'm sorry people got squished by buildings...

[The Buddha]

Well most guys that say earthquakes are no big deal.... are forgetting or haven't seen the bad ones. 1989 SFO (Loma Prieta)... a whole highway is missing from that one, Northridge another bad one... not that I lived there in that time but I have a friend who does earthquake work who tells me they are quite serious.
Cool.
Srinath.

[scratch]

I was working as a m/c salesman at the time of the Loma Prieta and while I could see the black and white checkerboard tile rolling like waves only a few bikes fell over, including watching my one day old FZR400 fall over as I was running sideways (because of the 'quake) for the door...but, yeah, it was pretty bad, definitley the worst I've ever experienced. Traffic was horrid that afternoon, but even though I clipped a guy's rear fender, he let me go after I stopped. But, at home, watching the car go over the edge on the part of the bridge that collapsed on tv, then I realized how bad it really was.