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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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Oct 19, 2013 - 03:09am PT
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up in los altos hills there was water coming down the steep streets,
rich people in them hills, everybody has a swimming pool up there,
resonance was perfect for draining the pools of half their volume,
a pool that is 60 ft long by 20 ft wide, 10 feet deep in the deep section and 4 feet deep in the shallow section holds 62,800 gallons of water.
so if you have 10 pools on one street, and they all get drained by half, that is 314,000 gallons of water.
if 1/4 of that water makes it to the street, that is 78,500 gallons of water which is 10,494 cubic feet, if the street is 20 feet wide and 1000 feet long, there will be enough water to create a layer of water on the street that is 1/2 a foot deep, allowing for runoff to the sides, we will have about 3 to 4 inches of water coming down at ya, enuff for a sea kayak but not a Dagger RPM play boat, jus sayin,
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 19, 2013 - 06:37am PT
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"The fire erupted on August 17, 2013 at 3:25pm."
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Oct 19, 2013 - 09:01am PT
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i was in montana, but my dad was recently retired from his job as chief of the building department for the city of san jose. he was called back, as part of some civil defense preparedness plan, to inspect for damage at schools in the area. it was rewarding for him, after twenty-five years of being a hardass regarding code enforcment, to see so much that wasn't damaged thanks to standards that had been put in place, much of it during his time
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Oct 20, 2013 - 03:55pm PT
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We had been living on Pacific Heights as well. We checked in with the neighbors in the 1950's vintage building. Absolutely no damage.
Bedrock is RAD rock.
My house, about 10 miles from epicenter and 1/2 mi from San Andreas fault suffered structural damage which didn't show for about 3 months when walls started to buckle. I had to fly back from Puerto Vallarta for two weeks to get repairs going. My house is much stronger in shear now than when it was built. Properly tied into the bedrock.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Oct 20, 2013 - 07:46pm PT
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I was at high school football practice, thinking I was getting dizzy and about to fall over. Then I noticed the telephone poles waving back and forth. We were 235 miles south of San Francisco, just south of Hearst Castle and south end of Big Sur.
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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Oct 20, 2013 - 07:48pm PT
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It was a tuesday? Probably throwing dirt in my mouth on the lawn. Might have eaten a snail, don't quite remember. I was 5, after all.
edit - I miss juan :(
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briham89
Big Wall climber
san jose, ca
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Oct 20, 2013 - 10:05pm PT
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I was hanging out in my Mom's belly for another two months and three days ;)
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Oct 20, 2013 - 10:40pm PT
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I was doing FA's up on Queen Mtn. We didn't feel a thing.
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TrundleBum
Trad climber
Las Vegas
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Oct 21, 2013 - 12:14pm PT
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That quake marked a whole era of my life.
At the time I was living on Maui and working as a framing carpenter for a contractor who was originally from Santa Cruz.
We (the whole, rather large crew) was making pretty good and very steady money as we were working on the largest house of the time, situated on the green of one of the holes along side the Kapalua Golf Course, in a sub division called 'Pine Apple Hill'.
A number of the other carpenters, a few of which were from Santa Cruz, had gone to California to catch a game of the world series.
Monday and Tuesday were quite casual with perhaps half the crew absent. On Wednesday work was to resume at full swing with a full crew but it did not. The mood was austere and the production slow as stories, questions and phone calls abounded.
Apparently the crew members all got a call from Roy the contractor on Monday afternoon. He said he had a line on some titckets and tried to get his fellow travellors to stay on an extra day, catch another game of the series and spend another evening with friends and family before returning to the islands. After checking in flight availability and the cost of a reschedule it was decided that the would all return as planned on the morning of Tuesday the 17th.
They spoke about how they lamented leaving and as they looked out the windows of the aircaft as it climbed up out of the Bay Area dreamed of seeing that Series game and enjoying one more day in the area.
A couple of hours into the flight the pilot announce over the P.A the occurence of the earth quake offering very limited info other than the fact that it was a 'Duecy' and anybody from the area might want to try and check in with family immediately!
All day Wednesday individual workers would leave the site to go to a pay phone and try to reach friends or family back in the Santa Cruz and/or Bay Area, often with little or no results. It was a very austere day as almost all of us had friends or family in the area.
In retrospect:
I think all media hype aside and the fact that the quake was a natural event and could not be blamed on a human faction, that one earth quake had almost as much shock effect (forgive the pun) for me and my local community as did 9/11 !
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