Oh, and by the way....yes, I did feel the quake. I've been through two major quakes in my life, the Sylmar quake of 1971, and the Loma Prieta quake of 1989. I was just five miles from the epicenter of the Loma Prieta quake when it hit, and believe me, it was nothing like the quake we just went through. The Loma Prieta quake did start out with a bit of an easy shake, just like this last one, but then, as I remember, the full force hit, and it was as if several freight trains hit my house. My front window literally exploded from the force. Not to say going through a major quake like that has made me some sort of jaded old quake curmudgeon, sitting on the porch and saying, "Wellll, in MY time, we had HUGE earthquakes,"--I'm still terrified of them.
My office at home is partially underground (it used to be a storage room and is dug into the hillside), so I had the incredibly weird experience of being BELOW ground during an earthquake--it was as if the the walls of my office suddenly became liquified and began moving. Totally freaky.
Apparently, after this last quake, a message came over the loudspeaker at the local Trader Joe's: "Santa Cruz ROCKS!" Yes!
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Liquified walls? Sounds like an acid trip!
Well, it IS Santa Cruz!
:)
I remember when your office was the laundry area. You did a great job renovating it this year. Haven't talked to you in a while, call me!
The Raven ain't the same withoutcha.
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