Derryg

Been there, done that! Moved, now deal with tropical storms and illegal's.

hassighedgehog Loc: Corona, CA

I was at Jack in the Box, eating breakfast. Just thought the person in the seat behind me was shaking it for some reason. Did not find out about it until later.
i lived in Wilmington when the Northridge quake happened. I had a Siamese cat at the time who would go under the covers and sleep at my feet. After the quake was over, he started to come out but I moved. He had been scared as he then froze in place. I worked for Pacific Telephone at the time as an operator, however it was my day off. I half expected to be called in, but had already left the house by 11am as we were going to visit a friend in Huntington Park. She worked for Pacific Bell also, but in a different department. Never got called.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

When the Whitter Narrows quake hit I had just gotten off the Freeway and was half the four blocks to the school where I taught in East LA riding my motorcycle to work. My bike started to wobble and I glanced down to see if I was on the seam of the new pavement being installed on that street or if my front wheel had something wrong - no and no. Then people came running out of their houses yelling earthquake in English and Spanish. I wheeled onto campus and saw hundreds of students who had been there early to eat breakfast running so I just dropped the kickstand and directed students to the assembly areas on the athletic field. Then we sent the students home because a few cracks had developed in the plaster of the older buildings and they wanted to inspect them and approve the buildings for use. Later that day some of us had students in our rooms who couldn't go home because everyone was at work and an aftershock hit. It took me some time to convince them they were safer in a steel frame school building than at home by themselves. When lunch came we all went to lunch and about half of them went over the fences and home instead of lunch and back to the room for the rest of the day.

usn ret Loc: SoCal High Desert

I had a front row seat...
I was sitting in my lazyboy watching TV low rumble that built to, YOU BETTER HANG ON!!!! About 10 miles from ground zero. Boy that got my attention. We lost a grandfather clock, lots of assembly required, dishes and some rather expensive Spanish ceramic pieces. No structural damage, moved a fridge about a foot. Then the shaker on the 5th dumped some more things on the floor while I was 70 miles away, I thought to myself "this is not good" , was a long drive home wondering what would be damaged from this one. It mostly dumped things on the floor that had mostly just put away. Just hope the worst is over for another 20 years. Shaken not stirred!!