Doug,
Thanks be to God that there wasn't more destruction and death. Good to
hear that you are OK. We had a similar quake here a few years ago on
Thanksgiving Day. Ours was in the 5.2 range and did no major damage that
I know of, but it was still a bit scary.
Tom, Redding CA - #216 D/CC
Doug Odom wrote:
> Yesterday morning about 11:15 the shop started to make funny noises. I
> looked around decided to walk outside. We are about 60 miles south of
> the center of the quake. This quake was one of those long rolling type,
> it lasted over 20 seconds. Now my shop is 70' long and 30' deep. It has
> 3 15' wide doors in front. All the doors were open. I when out front and
> watched with total amazement as the shop would raise up about 2 feet and
> then when back down. Inside the shop is the 26' streamliner on rolling
> type jack stands, the 99 corvette on jack stands, a 69 camero on jack
> stands and a 70 mustang up on the 4 post hoist. The mustang was really
> swinging around on the hoist but stayed upright. The only thing that
> broke was one picture in the office fell off the wall. Now the funny
> thing is that the dogs 1 gal water bucket was about 3/4 full when it
> started and only about 1 inch of water in it after the quake, but it
> never fell over or moved. Some brick buildings in Paso Robles did fall
> and kill 2 people. All in all we were very lucky around here.
> Doug Odom in shaky big ditch
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