Comments on: Coming Up Next

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:59:09 +0000

The problem is knowing what kind of ground you are on, especially since developers have a bad habit of filling to build.

By: cookie jill

cookie jill — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:45:15 +0000

I’ll take a roller over a jolty anyday….just so long as I’m on solid rock ground and not land soon to be jello like the Marina area in The City.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:23:51 +0000

After hiring John Yoo, I’m not sure about Bezerkley anymore. If fear they have been Feinsteined.

It was only a 5.4, but the rollers are the worst.

By: cookie jill

cookie jill — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:22:49 +0000

This was a wussy quake. A mere foot massage. Well…up here, anyway. Things look and feel quite a bit different when you’re on top of the epicenter. Our little adobe Disneyland owes it’s look and architectural style to being destroyed by a 6.7 or something quake in 1925. We live upon two very major, active fault lines…not to mention all the ones running through the channel. We’re due for a larger jolt sooner or later.

I’m betting on the Hayward fault to be the “corker” quake. I’m sure all the Rethugs will be jumping up and down saying buhbye to Berkeley.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:30:57 +0000

My Mother was watching the series when it happened and just the live TV pictures convinced her that she didn’t want to get involved with earthquakes.

People don’t believe you when you talk about the rolling, because it isn’t supposed to happen. It took a while to understand that I was watching the swimming pool in the complex and the water was staying put initially while the pool itself was moving up and down.

By: Fallenmonk

Fallenmonk — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:02:08 +0000

I have only experienced one California earthquake and it was the famous World Series quake in October, 1989. I had flown to SFO for a one day meeting and was just leaving the office when the quake struck just after 5pm. Standing in the parking lot and watching the parking lot roll like it was liquid was quite an experience. The company put me in one of the training apartments for the night but the aftershocks kept me awake all night. I was on the very first plane out of SFO the next morning and back to Atlanta. I had people offer me $2000 for a $700 dollar ticket. Not an experience I want to repeat. The strangest thing I remember was the smell from the shopping center across the street from the apartments. Hundreds of jars of pickles had been jarred loose and broken and the smell of vinegar was permeating the neighborhood.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:36:43 +0000

A 5.4 is not that bad, but it was a “roller” and lasted between 10 and 15 seconds, which really whacks your mind.

I slept in my truck the two days after the 6.6 roller we had in San Diego.

By: mapaghimagsik

mapaghimagsik — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:21:01 +0000

Far, far away for me. Hope everyone’s alright.