52% want (CA) bullet train stopped, poll finds (LA Times)

[MADem]

93. WOW--you must have been terrified!

I was much further out from the epicenter, but we did without power for three or four days. A lot of the older homes in my neighborhood had cracks running up the walls. I was in a newer home that was built with "earthquake" technology, it was on stilts that had shock absorbers in them, basically, with parking underneath, so when that thing started, the house starting pogo-sticking to beat the band. My furniture started walking, so did my computer (and this was back in the day when a computer was a HUGE investment) and I got flung across the room.

Fortunately, I had all the kitchen cabinets shut--and they had those little things on 'em that kept the doors closed, so nothing came outta those. One of the b/r closets was left wide open, though, and everything in that closet also ended up on the other side of the room.

I felt terrible for those people on the overpass--and the families who were frantic. That was the worst earthquake I've ever been in, in terms of time without power and impact, and I've been in a few--Japan, Middle East, even a doozie in Italy!