Re: Lots of shakin\' goin\' on...
Thanks Harv.
I drove over the that highway that goes over the Santa Cruz mountains a month or so before the quake to see some people on the ocean. That was the highway that buckled up that the fault ran down.
You know some of the California quakes they have shown on the news...I've always seen the people that were shaken and fearful and haven't quite understood it, afterall I've been vibrated here a few times, no big deal...I never in my life would have believed the ground I stand on could not just vibrate, but go up and down with such force and movement.
Something about the loss of the feeling that you are secure and the ground you stand on is secure has been lost. Now I know what fear is, as during what seemed like an excruciating long time period I was really wondering if this was it, the 9.0 we all hear about was here, that all was going to be destroyed. The quake got worse as it went on. The sounds that the house was making, and all my metal garage doors sounding like someone was beating on them with a 100 hammers was really something.
Glad I didn't have a bucket of rocks in the air. Did you see where the guys in the "bucket-on-the-stick" were working over the side of a bridge, standing in their usually controlled "people-bucket" and were tossed out to land 50 feet below?
Or the guys working on a new tall building in Seattle that were all knocked to the ground? Some were near the open edges. WOW.
We are all just that far from the end.
Time to go watch the ducks circle the pond, and get dive bombed by the swallows (April) who feel I have no right to approach my wood shed!
Del
