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Just a relaxing evening and then
Last night at appox 9:09 pm PTZ I was enjoying a cool beverage sitting in a lounge chair on the patio. I felt the chair shake and my first thought was Mary Ellen had quietly come behind me shaking the chair. I looked behind and no one was there.
TV broadcast interrupts program saying a 5.1 earthquake had just occurred east of LA. The quake could be felt along a line to the valley that Indio, CA. sits in.
That is my first and it’s a little scary. You look around waiting for what ever and nothing else happens then you realize the earth was shaking.
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Al,
That is funny… I was in a zero gravity chair talking on the phone and I thought the chair was breaking… I didn’t see the news of the quake until this morning. Lauren and the kids didn’t even notice…. go figure.
Bill
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Al, my first earthquake startled me too in 1995 in Palm Springs. I think it was a 3.2 or so. Just enought to vibrate the wall hangings. After that, they don’t bother me and I’ve been in the desert when we have had 5 or so. Once you realize what is happening, you just roll with it and hope for the best as there is nothing you can really do except to protect yourself.
I would much rather live in earthquake country than tornado alley. If the house comes down, you don’t have rain, wind and flooding to mess everything up.
Stay safe,
Mark
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Al, that little 5.1 shake last night warn’t nuthin. Don’t forget that Indio is only about 20 miles from San Andreas fault.
The quake last night was shallow, so the severe shaking was mostly felt in close proximity to the epicenter. We hardly felt it here in west LA, about 30 miles from epicenter. We got a pretty good jolt last week though, from a 4.7 that was pretty close to home.
We were at ORI during a 5.3 centered near Brawley a few years ago. That made the buses jump, and set off every car alarm in the park.
The suspension of the bus mitigates the shaking, so people in their brick an mortar houses in Indio probably felt it more than you did. I know that I’d rather experince a big quake in my bus than in my house any day.
The good thing about being in your bus is that its’ basically a self-contained lifeboat. If a big quake comes you can just fire up the generator and keep watching TV. We keep our bus stocked up with fuel, water and supplies at all times in case we need an “escape pod” when the city gets slammed by a big one. Hopefully will never need it for that, but its nice to know it’s there.
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Al
That was a tickle, just to comfort you the San Andreas Fault runs just north of the 10 freeway and crosses the 10 and heads south to the Salton Sea at Dillion Rd near Indio. If the big one comes I hope I’m in my bus.
Later
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Al…are you sure it wan’t just your wallet falling on the ground? With all the dough Tom and Jon pay you to be the west coast rep for PC, I would imagine it is pretty heavy these days…..
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Amen to that Mark.
We not only refunded his membership fees, but we quadrupled them for his weekly pay.
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My chair was shaking pretty good during your “tickle” Bernie. Can I get hazard duty pay ?
Experiencing an earthquake was not exactly one of the things on my bucket list.
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Al, now that you have experienced your first, you will not be bothered by any others. You will certainly be aware but unless it’s super big, you’ll just ride it out like we all do.
If the ‘big one’ ever happens, I’m hoping I can get to the motorhome for comfort as all utilities will probably be interrupted. Our motorhomes are our escape pods (as someone mentioned).
Also, having plenty of beverages softens the rumble.
Mark
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