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That's ok... I can compensate
Earthquake just felt in hills above Sonora California, like 3:00pm pst
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I'm used to the Gulf and it was weird going to the west coast the first time.
My wife and I went to San Diego when we got married. It was in the 80s in April.
In the south you sit near the water to be cool.
We were cold till this beach creature with drink in her hand came by and told us it was warmer up by the cliffs out of the wind.
Growing up driving off flat land onto the beach in Daytona was a thing, so the first time in Washington state driving on the beach was also weird.
Our road ended just past the "Tsunami Waring" sign in Ocean Shores and there was the gray, angry ocean.
Ferdinand must have been looking at a different ocean when he named it.
Even the two bad ones in my memory ('89 & '94) weren't felt much where I'm at. When we do feel one, we just start dancing and singing this--
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89 I felt... 94 not at all... 64, yeah, that one had my attention... We were living in Anchorage Alaska at the time...
'64 was just a bit before my time!
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Well... If your interested... A lot of the footage was shot within five miles of where I lived...
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My stepdad Bob was stationed there in the Army Staff Sgt, reserves 1959-65
& at Fort Richardson when it happened,
had some crazy photos he had of streets with like 12' drops of asphalt
in downtown Anchorage, land sluffed off by the shores
9.1 - 9.3 or something crazy, in our seismic rating today,
they thought it was like 8.3, back then
4th street to 1st st. & C-street to A st. west, like 15 miles of the coastline
literally liquidized & went towards Cook inlet
still nothing there today
I lived up there in Sept. 1984-summer of 86, seen it all & experienced it too
lived in Palmer (Polar raceway/dragstrip was out the backdoor of my property)
& a short stint in Anchorage, when I 1st moved there
I managed an apartment 16 unit complex on Lake Ottis & Tudor dr.,
by Northern Lights, for a place to live at 1st, for about a year...
Made a lil' cash & Raised some Terroir puppies,
my female Staffordshire terroir 'Baby' was prego, by my male "Alfred"...
She had them the day after I got there... PITA
I was a govt. worker/"investigator E9 on base" can't talk about
& later a firearms instructor on Elmendorf base
& then later a lead carpenter for Tester Oil drilling in Prudhoe Bay, North Slope...
I was building derricks, drilling platforms & barracks, Quonset (spell ?) huts,
48 days a year, 16 day on & 14 off, 3 times a year, revolving shifts
& great $$$ $1,000 a day in 1980 $s, by the 3rd day in...
My older middle sister Candy (18 months older) Lt/Rec. Mngr
was stationed at Elmendorf AFB, I moved there to help her with the kids
Keith & Sabrina my niece & nephew, I ended up raising, for the next 10+ years,
thru HS then college
It was after her divorce, she was in the US Air Force Lt./Rec. Mngr
& worked at shared base, Fort Richardson, in recreation at the pool mostly
other recreation BS at Elmendorf AFB too...
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There was a big one in Livermore area, in the early 80's
me & my younger brother Tim, were doing glass cleaning at grocery store/storefronts
in Livermore, when that one happened, we were in his 73 RS/SS Camaro
all hoped up & it felt like the tires were falling off, driving down hwy 84,
we got out to check
& noticed the light poles & telephone polls were all swaying like crazy
we both said; "earthquake"
& the ground was shaking, for like 45 seconds after we got out...
It was good one too...
