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PeterLucas wrote:
> Blinky the Shark > wrote in
> :
>
>> 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

>
> Haven't read the whole thing. Where were you?


Third line: "At 4:31 am, Monday, a 6.7 earthquake hit 10 miles west of
my apartment in North Hollywood."

> I was in Granada.


Granada Hills?

> I toured thru' on my motor bike thinking I'd gt some digi pics. After
> about 5 , I couldn't take anymore.


Understandable.

> At the Nothridge apartment collapse,,,,,,,,, i stood there and if i
> could have cried, I would have,


Saw some of that. Sad, indeed. And scary. Could've been you or I.

Another local event: I think today or yestarday is/was the 10th
anniversary of The Great North Hollywood Bank Robbery Shootout.


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