I'd just answered the phone when the quake hit this morning (about half an hour ago now). I put on the news to find out what the magnitude was, and shared the information with my friend. Then we hung up so we could both make calls to check on our family and friends.
After that I went back in my train room. My Atlas HO GP-40 hadn't even derailed; it was still pulling three cars around my Unitrack 4x8' layout.
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That must have been a pleasant sight, Randall. I fear in a similar situation my own trains would all be knocked askew. My layout is rather high up off the ground, and although fairly solid, I think it would sway enough to throw the rolling items around a bit. We're on a fault line, but haven't had any eye-opening quakes is many years.
-Crandell
been downgraded to 5.4 no damage reported so far, centered in Chino Hills about 29 miles east of downtown
We got a good shake, I'm 9 floors up and we got a good rolling, scary looking outside to see tall buildings doing the Hula
...if this was Iran, 10K people would likely be dead, crushed due to the fer-*** mudbrick construction.
Have fun with your trains
I am very glad to hear all is well - including the trains.
Fred W
I was on the phone with a business colleague in Orange Co. when it hit. It freaked her out, that's for sure. Seemed like the shaking went on for an eternity as we were speaking.
When the quake hit the St Louis area a few weeks back it was in the middle of the night. My wife thought I was having seizures in bed!
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Glad to hear you didn't have to dispatch your clean up cranes and MOW equipment!
Watching it on the news right now...
loathar wrote: Glad to hear you didn't have to dispatch your clean up cranes and MOW equipment!Watching it on the news right now...
But, but, but, then he would have an excuse to make the MOW really work and earn it's keep!
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Part of living in SoCal. At the risk of sounding trite: one tends to get used to them.
No doubt the talking heads will speculate for days on end regarding the exact date California breaks off into the Pacific.
~ Jason
A 5.4 shaker in the Chino Hills, Northern California is burning up and Arnold is threatening to slash State workers wages because we still don't have a State Budget.
And one of my friends told me that my native state is the 7th strongest economy in the world. Right behind Austria.
Who says California isn't an exciting place to live? Not ME!
Tom
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I was driving on freeway (actually I was riding along with our project manager in his truck) and I didn't even feel a thing. I came home after work and checked out my 3 engines stitting on my diorama and they didn't even move let alone derail.
This is the exact reason that I moved all of my engines that I had sitting on the top self of my bookcase in my office back into their boxes about 2-3 months ago. It's a darn good thing that I did.
simon1966 wrote: When the quake hit the St Louis area a few weeks back it was in the middle of the night. My wife thought I was having seizures in bed!
Funny, when I was living in Montana there was an earthquake up there not long after we went to bed and as I was almost fully asleep it hit and I thought my wife was jumping on the bed.
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J Campbell wrote: Part of living in SoCal. At the risk of sounding trite: one tends to get used to them.No doubt the talking heads will speculate for days on end regarding the exact date California breaks off into the Pacific.
They've already started on NBC. Ho-hum.
Yeah, but it'll be "Arnolds fault"....
Rotor
Jake: How often does the train go by? Elwood: So often you won't even notice ...
zgardner18 wrote:This is the exact reason that I moved all of my engines that I had sitting on the top self of my bookcase in my office back into their boxes about 2-3 months ago. It's a darn good thing that I did.
I'm glad you put your locos away too. There are few things more hear-wrencing than a favorite loco running several feet downhill on a one hundred percent grade.
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BigBlueConrail wrote:Try going through a hurricane with your trains lol.
Yep! 4 feet of salt water in your home AIN'T fun! Especially when your on a septic system. Glad my trains were in storage at parents house then.
I'm surprised they haven't said it's the sucking the oil out of the ground that's causing the quakes and made it an excuse to stop drilling.