RamFan503 said:
Ram Quixote said:
Pshaw. I slept through the Sylmar earthquake. When I woke up, the rest of my family was standing in the hallway outside my bedroom door.
Mine defeats both of yours because it really happened. Btw, I was 10 at the time.
I might have slept through the Sylmar quake if my brother hadn't swung down from the top bunk and landed on my head. True story. Also, we had a junior Olympic size built in pool - 12 feet deep at deep end. The quake emptied it to a couple of feet of water but didn't crack it. I ran outside with my Dad telling us to get out of the house to see waves coming over the 6 ft high fence surrounding the pool. Kinda freaky.
Were you down there for the 1968 quake? That was a doozy too.
I don't remember that one. I've been through several though--87' Whittier (that one banged hard, and I was in a warehouse with tall racks), the 2 Landers quakes in 92 (woke us up 2 hours apart), and the 94 Northridge quake.
But that wasn't the worst disaster related thing about living in So. Cal. The wildfires could last more than a week, with soot falling out of the skies.
We lived in Claremont, near the foothills (but not so near that we were in danger), and I remember one year a fire that was some 20 miles to the east of us moved across the foothills that entire distance in one night.