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kx250rider
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Did anyone wake up at 4:31 this morning, in a cold sweat, and disoriented? If you lived in the Los Angeles area 16 years ago this morning, you probably did 
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The eerie part of this 16th anniversary of the Northridge Earthquake, is that it's the first time since then, that 1/17 has fallen on Monday, and also on MLK Day. The weather is also nearly identical... Warm dry breeze; upper 80s in the daytime, and mild over night. The fact that it was MLK Day, probably saved THOUSANDS of lives, since most people were off work & school, and were still in bed. The nice weather allowed people to sleep in their yards or in tents that night and the following few days during the aftershocks. I had FAILED to keep food in the house, and had to go try to get some in the afternoon. My daily driver car was out of gas (had also FAILED to fill it Sunday night), so my only transportation was a 1976 Cadillac with no plates, no insurance, and hardly any brakes. It got me 40 miles out of town to get some groceries and back. 9 hours drive with the roads all busted up... I got home with 1 loaf of white bread, a travel-size box of Saltines, and some fruit. Later I found out that many of the expensive restaurants along Ventura Blvd, set up BBQ grilles in the street, and cooked & gave away all their meat so it wouldn't sit & spoil in the fridges with no power for a week. Too bad I didn't have enough gas left to make it to Ventura Blvd after the 80 mile round trip for the bread, LOL.
It seems like it was last week, and I'll never forget.
Charles
.The eerie part of this 16th anniversary of the Northridge Earthquake, is that it's the first time since then, that 1/17 has fallen on Monday, and also on MLK Day. The weather is also nearly identical... Warm dry breeze; upper 80s in the daytime, and mild over night. The fact that it was MLK Day, probably saved THOUSANDS of lives, since most people were off work & school, and were still in bed. The nice weather allowed people to sleep in their yards or in tents that night and the following few days during the aftershocks. I had FAILED to keep food in the house, and had to go try to get some in the afternoon. My daily driver car was out of gas (had also FAILED to fill it Sunday night), so my only transportation was a 1976 Cadillac with no plates, no insurance, and hardly any brakes. It got me 40 miles out of town to get some groceries and back. 9 hours drive with the roads all busted up... I got home with 1 loaf of white bread, a travel-size box of Saltines, and some fruit. Later I found out that many of the expensive restaurants along Ventura Blvd, set up BBQ grilles in the street, and cooked & gave away all their meat so it wouldn't sit & spoil in the fridges with no power for a week. Too bad I didn't have enough gas left to make it to Ventura Blvd after the 80 mile round trip for the bread, LOL.
It seems like it was last week, and I'll never forget.
Charles
