The Great St. Patrick’s Day temblor…or as it is being remembered…the Shamrock Shake!
WE WILL REBUILD!!!
I hope everyone is ok. I hope no one suffered from a paper cut. Could be deadly. Actually be carefully when picking that up. It looks like its holding that wall up.
OH the HUMANITY !!
I went to McDonalds today for a shamrock shake and the lousy machine was broken! Good thing I had one last week.
Somehow, green and vanilla just don’t seem to go together in my mind.
Rock n roll! !!!
5.1, in La Habra. That was a good shake. For the forum members down in that area Hope nothing got shook loose down there …called my Mom they’re fine. Sisters house had some stuff knocked over but more damage to her dogs nerves than anything.
Got a email from an MLS member in La Habra…2 quakes in there tonight. One at 8:03 pm PDT at 3.6 and another bigger one at 9:03 at 5.1. The last one rolled pretty good here in Burbank. Lasted a while. Didn’t feel the 3.6 one earlier. BTW, that is three quakes today in L.A.!
I Felt the 5.1 out here in Lancaster, felt like a gentle swaying here.
Don
La Habra got the worse of it, water line broke, power outages, mostly stuff off store shelves. Up here it shook for almost a good minute but hanging stuff kept on swaying for a good 5 minutes, thats never happened before.
For the uninitiated, this 5.1 was about 10x more energy released than the ST Pattys Day 4.3, so while up here, the Shamrock Shake felt like someone slamming the front door hard a few times, this one the whole house rolled and shook much more noticeably.
…the bigger one is coming, so I’m told…I hope everyone gets through it safely…
OH NO NOT an earthquack!! Lets all run out side, run in circles and scream and shout!! Let’s see the last one I went through was in 1969< as I remember and it took out a Hospital in San Ferando and put a nice ‘s’ curve in the SP Main line track (the big rail). It took water out our above ground pool and had our oldest daughter in my wife arms in a flash!
Had one here in lovely Seattle a few years back, took bricks off building in the older part of Seattle, and cought two people I know sitting on the "Royal’ throne!, thinking this will be very embarrassing to be found in the ruins of the house with my pants around my ankles!!
An interesting thought when you are riding one out!
We lost a French Pot and damaged one Nutcracker! No RR damage!
Paul
E. Paul Austin said:
OH NO NOT an earthquack!! Lets all run out side, run in circles and scream and shout!! Let’s see the last one I went through was in 1969< as I remember and it took out a Hospital in San Ferando and put a nice ‘s’ curve in the SP Main line track (the big rail).
An interesting thought when you are riding one out!
We lost a French Pot and damaged one Nutcracker! No RR damage!
Paul
Sylmar Quake of 1971.
I’m a native Californian…70 years. The scary part about these recent quakes…the Shamrock quake and now this La Habra quake, is that they are very shallow. Around 5 miles deep. I think the Sylmar and Northridge quakes were about 10-12 miles deep. BIG difference how these feel! If we get a 6.5 to 7.0 this shallow, we have a problem!
i thought i heard something about an earthquake…
E. Paul Austin said:
OH NO NOT an earthquack!! Lets all run out side, run in circles and scream and shout!! Let’s see the last one I went through was in 1969< as I remember and it took out a Hospital in San Ferando and put a nice ‘s’ curve in the SP Main line track (the big rail). It took water out our above ground pool and had our oldest daughter in my wife arms in a flash!
Had one here in lovely Seattle a few years back, took bricks off building in the older part of Seattle, and cought two people I know sitting on the "Royal’ throne!, thinking this will be very embarrassing to be found in the ruins of the house with my pants around my ankles!!
An interesting thought when you are riding one out!
We lost a French Pot and damaged one Nutcracker! No RR damage!
Paul
Paul, you are right on riding one out. We did on that 1969 earthquake when you mention the hospital claps. We were coming in to LA just before the 405 interstate fwy. heading south with a set of Dbl’s with DiSalvo trucking out of Sacto.
I was following a UPS truck with dbl. trailer and we were talking on the CB to each other when the whole LA area lite up with flashes around 6:09 AM.
The truck route coming into LA on I-5 into the Golden state freeway has the first two lanes for trucks and when coming up to the start of the 405 fwy. the trucks had it own overpass over the 405 and then back over to the Golden State fwy. again.
The UPS driver told me to follow him as we jumped back on the Golden state with the cars just in time. When I got in to the LA truck terminal, I was told that the 405 truck route overpass fell down min. after we crossed over to the Golden state fwy. Also, if I remember right, the Palmdale/Lancaster over pass that was just built fell down and crush a guy in his pick up at the same time. It was three days before they found him.
If had been a few min. later… the UPS driver and I would not probable be here today. That’s about a 100ft drop to the 405 freeway with a truck and two trailer with around 80,000 lbs loaded.
Guess like you said Paul, We kind of rode it out watching our trailer sway all over the place going down the Freeway. But… not on a Royal’ throne!, hahahaha.
The same thing happen a few years after that up in San Fran. Bay area when I was on the top deck of the Numbis Fwy. with a truck and trailer load with diesel fuel a few hr. before that claps from an earthquake.
That took months to clean that mess up. Freeway was not rebuilt after that…
Sure glad I quite driving trucks a few yr’s. after that.
Like Fred said…“Still waiting for the big one to come.” Guess that’s when Calif. fall in to the Ocean and have to tie our boat up at Mt. Shasta if I can get it off the back pond in time…LOL.