Kinda hard to believe, isn't it?

 

Where did the time go?

I remember it well, as we are a mile-and-a-half from its epicenter, but we fared pretty well.

Block walls lost the top three courses, and the kitchen cabinets were emptied, but I think we had less than fifteen hundred dollars in damages all-totaled.

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I was at San Fernando Mission and Woodley and had quite a bit of damage. I can't believe it has been 15 years.

 

It's kinda' funny, but areas far more distant from "ground zero" were much more damaged than we were.

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True - at my folks house in Pico Rivera (what is that - about 30mi or so as the crow flies?) a block wall was trashed and all the cabinets were emptied.

We were living in Long Beach at the time and our next door neighbors main water supply line broke.

 

Wow has it really been that long? I was working at Ralph's grocery as a night crew manager. I remember all the work it took to get the place cleaned up. I did not make it home to my Fam for 3 day's due to the freeway bridge that went down. What a nightmare that was. Totally unprepared.

 

that little tremor only knocked down half of downtown fillmore

 

My parents house in Granada Hills (where the Gas fire was at Balboa) had $80,000 in damage. the concrete driveway and garage floor actually moved under the house rolling the front foundation out from under the house. Caltech was out ther and told the neighborhood that they were the surface epicenter (where the fault came to the surface). His property still moves.

 

Kieth,

Did they, perchance, live on an east-west street, on the south side of it?

I saw some very strange things that happened in that neighborhood during the quake.

I was working for a geologist at the time, and did a lot of property surveys thereafter.

USGS much later told us that a large area of Granada Hills moved south about a foot or so, but only the surface few feet above the water table. If the shaking had continued longer, the entire area likely would have slid down onto the 118 roadway. There were some really strange sights at the toe end of the whole slide.

The gas and water main breaks were at a portion of the head end of that slide, where the land just moved apart about a foot, pulling apart the pipes.

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They live on the north side of an east-west street. About 2 blocks from the freeway. 1 block north of rinaldi and east of balboa. What is ironic is one of the homes that burned was the grandson of Richter and a bunch of Richters memorbilia went up in flames. A house behind my parents sat on a north- south direction got split in two. I'll post some pics when I find them. His property actually went north. The cars went through the garage door which is on the south side of the house.

 

One place I distinctly remember was on the north side of an east-west street,

When we arrived, we first noticed the asphalt driveway was pushed up and over the sidewalk about a foot. There were no abnormal cracks in it anywhere, and it went, as it always had, directly to the garage slab.

It was just evidence that the garage (and house) had gotten a foot closer to the street. It wasn't until the USGS told us that we could figure out what had happened.

Talk about irony, re: Richter's stuff being destroyed in an earthquake! I had never heard that fact.

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My dad would not have had as much damage had he had an asphalt driveway but the concrete driveway and garage floor did not give the foundation gaveway.