Cheeze - video from Glendale CA tonight...starts slow enough, but then...have MERCY

[Leghorn21]

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[lunatica]

1. That was very long!

Usually by the time you react it’s over. Holy shit is right!

[fierywoman]

2. That sound that you never forget. I was in Mexico City in a 5th floor apartment during an

earthquake. I heard water sloshing. When it was over, I realized it was the water in the toilet that was sloshing.

[BigmanPigman]

3. When the last big one hit in Northridge, CA in the early 90s

my friend had just bought a ton of food and it all came flying out of the freezer and fridge and his dishwasher opened and all the dishes came flying out. He picked up the rug in the kitchen and dumped all the food and china and glass in the dumpster. A friend was visiting and sleeping on his floor and the TV started to roll across the floor and it toppled over onto his house guest who saved the TV and wasn't hurt. The Bullock's/Macy's had to be torn down at that location...the earthquake destroyed too much of it.

[Hekate]

4. That was memorable, and we were 100 miles north in Santa Barbara. I knew it was big...

I sat on the edge of my bed and felt the rolling of the Earth. Then all the electricity went out. In order to find out where the quake was I went out to my car and used that radio, but all the radio stations were dead too.

So I kept tuning until I got San Diego. Interesting thing about the curve of the coastline and foggy mornings and I don't know what else, but many mornings my clock radio would awaken me at 6:00 am with staticky reception from San Diego rather than my local station (was my cheap clock radio having dreams of being a HAM radio?) so I had a feeling it could be done. When KNX1070 got back on the air in LA, their coverage was brilliant, and I could get them in my car too.

We were okay where we were, just without power. But we knew people in Northridge and the word finally came that -- as you described -- every thing was thrown from every cupboard and shelf. Heavy appliances do-si-doed in the kitchen. The house miraculously survived and wasn't red-tagged, but the contents were another matter.

We are feeling the current Ridgecrest quivers here in Ventura now and then, but not too strongly. We check the hanging lamp over the kitchen table, and if it is swaying, yes, that's an aftershock.

[Liberty Belle]

6. We had family and friends devastated by the Northridge quake.

Our babysitter's brother lived in the apt. building that pancaked. He and his wife and baby escaped with their lives but could not go back in to salvage anything.

Our mother-in-law's home in Thousand Oaks had its foundation damaged but the house was saved with major work (jacking it up off the ground and laying a new foundation).

My sister-in-law's parents were not so fortunate. Their home was condemned as a total loss.

Your life in California can change in a heartbeat, due to Mother Nature.

[Kablooie]

7. I also had a friend near the epicenter of the Northridge quake.

He said it was like a giant was shaking the house.
A very, very angry giant.

[Liberty Belle]

5. The 7.2 Easter quake in Mexico, felt in San Diego, was like this.

I'm on a raised foundation. It sounded like a train was rolling under the house with a chug-chug-chug sound that went for probably 45 seconds or more. My refrigerator walked across the floor and the chandelier was swinging wildly.

Most quakes are more like gentle rolling, the kind we Californians laugh off, and they're over about the time you realize it's a quake. But not these.

I was in another as a kid when I was in a highrise and saw other highrises swaying out the window before we felt it, and then furniture slid across the floor.

Another time I was in the state capitol when the Loma Prieta quake hit the bay area and had to make my way down three flights of stairs in the dark, but that one wasn't really scary as the quake was not that strong where we were.

They say there have been 1400 aftershocks from these quakes and that this could continue for months around the epicenter, though I did not feel tonight's quake here in San Diego.

I understand Magic Mountain and Disneyland have shut down all their rides. Who needs them when you have a real life roller coaster beneath your feet?

[BigmanPigman]

8. I am disappointed that I didn't feel it tonight in San Diego.

I feel all of them, even the ones in the 4s and when I am sleeping. My dogs never do and I have to wake them up in case it does get bad and we have to split. All of my kitchen cabinets have child-proof looks on them since my dad was always smart and careful and he put those in for me. I miss him, he died 3 months ago.

[Raine]

9. The earthquake is frightening but to me it's the sounds

that are so awful. You hear everything in your house rattling, the walls creaking, dishes clanking together, all your stuff banging around. It's the sounds that stick with me.

[mnhtnbb]

10. I was a student at UCLA in '71 when Sylmar quake

happened. My roommate and I woke up to the room shaking. I sat up and the books in a bookcase on the wall over my bed fell on to my pillow where my head had been seconds earlier. We could hear and then see the water in the pool of the house that backed up to the house where we lived sloshing over the edges. It went on and on. It turned out to be a 6.6.

That quake turned out to be the third worst in California history at the time. Freeways crumbled, hospitals in the San Fernando Valley were knocked down, gas lines broke, 64 people died and there were hundreds of millions dollars in damage. I'll never forget it. It just seemed to shake for the longest time.

https://www.dailynews.com/2016/02/08/sylmar-san-fernando-earthquake-45-years-ago-tuesday-64-killed/

I had moved out of California by the time of the Northridge quake.

The Big One is coming one of these days. I don't want to be there!

[BSdetect]

11. Put shoes on to protect against broken glass. That is step one. No pun intended.

[GulfCoast66]

12. Y'all can have that shit!! I can't imagine living knowing that was coming...sometime.

Hurricanes suck. But with 3 days warning I can be in a bar in Atlanta before it hits!!

Hope everyone is ok!