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Default You know you're a Californian when . . .

Blinky the Shark > wrote in
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> Christine Dabney wrote:
>
>> And I have lived through both, well at least the big earthquake, and
>> then several years later in an eastern state, a big tornado coming
>> through town.
>> The earthquake was the Loma Prieta one, and I was about 10 miles

from
>> where the double decker freeway collapsed. There was no time to get
>> scared when it happened...even though it seemed the house would never
>> stop shaking.

>
> I did Northridge.
>
> http://blinkynet.net/odds/nridge.html
>
>



Forgot to mention.




My mates place in Granada......... a very large complex.


100 or so aprtments.


He was the FEMA/Red Cross rep.


All the apartments were trashed. We went door to door, most times
kicking the doors in.... looking for bodies.


That's a holiday I choose not to remember.




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Peter Lucas
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Australia



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