January, 1971: The Sylmar Quake. I was living at the beach in Marina del Rey with a roommmate. Mrs. Raptor-to-be and her roommate were living next door. A bum named Jesse was staying in their living room. He got all his teeth knocked out, drunk as a skunk, in a fight at our New Year's Eve party.

6 AM I'm awakened to the shaking. The alluvial soil at the beach was in liquefaction, which is like being in a small boat in a big storm at sea. A sliding glass window pops out of its frame on the wall and breaks over my face. Bam! Good morning. Furtunately, I wasn't cut. I run out the front door and, amidst this eerie, low fog, surprise, surprise, you could see who was sleeping with whom -- everybody ran outside. Several real shockers -- show and tell time. Jesse stood on the porch bellowing, over and over through his ugly, toothless mug, "It was an earthquake, George." I said "Shut the up, Jesse, I know it was an earthquake."

 

I only said 4am as a joke!

 

Wow! I've only felt one quake before. Never seen anything like a window pop out!

 

 

whats an Earth Quake?

 

make story short...I am real close to northridge...

earthquake comes..

condo...
jumps off foundation...

me.... lost almost everything... water damage and more from pipes breaking......

I use to breed fish in my house...until..well lets just say..fishtanks cant take being thrown across the room.

Im not mad...I love cali... I would rather be in a earthquake than any other natural disaster....

 

Fast forward to January, 1994: The Northridge Quake. Just before 5 AM. I'm already up and knocking around. Big quake, the power immediately goes off, pitch black. Long shaking. I tell Mrs. Raptor "This is the big one." It wasn't. I run outside -- no lights on everywhere. The sky is amazing -- you could see the Milky Way. I just stared at it for a long time. Mrs. Raptor comes out and says "Raptor, what the are you doing? Come on, we have to turn the gas off and check for damage." My neighbor across the street just got two new Cadillacs -- no plates. His chimney took out both of them in his driveway. Some 2x6 wood beams came down and did a hat dance on the hood of my 93 Prelude. I get a new hood, drive it home from the body shop, into the garage, and my foot slips off the clutch (oil on the bottom of my shoe from the parking lot at work, I think) -- BLAM! I drive right into a table saw up against the back of the garage. I take it back to the body shop the next day and Joe, the body shop manager says "You did what?"

 

LMAO!!!


It really shouldn't be funny......But it is REALLY funny!!!

I am laughing w/ you

 

 

I had a CRX in 1994 and well...it was weird because the alternator died and would not work after the Earthquake....maybe it was a emp bomb test.........and not really an earthquake...