Earthquake shakes the Bay Area (Sacramento, Napa: condo, home, yard)

[Chimérique]

It is a BIG DEAL, a little boy was seriously injured by a falling bricks from a Chimney, significant head injuries being flown to hospital with neurology specialists.

Napa Valley

90+ people with light to moderate injuries.

People lost their homes to fires because of the earthquake.

Napa County Courthouse close permanatly.

I felt it in Sacramento when the dogs freaked out and started barking and running around the house for "no reason".

On a lighter note: All that amazing wine wasted, "oh the humanity" !.....but serioulsy, millions of dollars lost in wine.

[zdg]

Originally Posted by Chimérique

It is a BIG DEAL, a little boy was seriously injured by a falling bricks from a Chimney, significant head injuries.

90+ people with light to moderate injuries.

I felt it in Sacramento when the dogs freaked out and started barking and running around the house for "no reason".

Just for the record, the child is a girl, not a boy.

[chuckmann]

Originally Posted by Tulemutt

What quake?

If I hadn't been suffering a bout of insomnia, I would have slept through it.

[chuckmann]

Originally Posted by Tulemutt

Heh. Well, I must admit that, not only do you not feel earthquakes when afloat - um, I also happen to be visiting out of state at the moment

Ma Nature was celebrating your absence

Actually, the quake was our way of welcoming the neighbor people who just moved in Saturday

[chuckmann]

Originally Posted by zdg

"Ha. You guys. We don't really have earthquakes here. I've lived here for 40 years and never felt anything more than the ground vibrating." - multiple people, two years ago, just before we bought our home here in Sonoma County that shook like a freight train was running under it last night.

No damage here, but it looks like Napa (town) and Sonoma (town) took the worst of it. If anything, it was a little exciting to be part of one that large. Entire house shook side to side (multiple feet) and sounded like living over a subway.

Sonoma was disappointingly devoid of noticeable damage. I was hoping to get some photos worthy of selling to the newspapers. No such luck.

[seain dublin]

Originally Posted by shooting4life

Slept through it. No big deal.

But look at the reports of water and batteries getting bought up and nothing really bad happened. Just imagine what it would be like if it was larger.

The time to buy water/batteries/supplies is before the quake, not after it.

It's not all about you.

People were seriously injured including a young girl.

Had it struck at 3pm rather than 3am, there would have been more injuries and quite possibly fatalities.

[zdg]

Originally Posted by chuckmann

Sonoma was disappointingly devoid of noticeable damage.

Hilarious. I hope terrible things happen to your family too.

[chuckmann]

Originally Posted by Chimérique

On a lighter note: All that amazing wine wasted, "oh the humanity" !.....but serioulsy, millions of dollars lost in wine.

I wonder how long the people of Napa will wine about damage ...

[chuckmann]

Originally Posted by zdg

Hilarious. I hope terrible things happen to your family too.

Dude, it's called humor, as noted by the emoticon. If you lack a sense of humor, you can find a good deal on them at Walmart this week.

[Chimérique]

Originally Posted by chuckmann

Dude, it's called humor, as noted by the emoticon. If you need a sense of humor, I understand that Walmart has a special this week.

This is not the time to be humorous, if my home burned to the ground because of the earthquake I would not want people making "humorous" comments.

Or, if your child was in danger of dying or being disabled for life. Not humorous.

An older man described not being able to go back in his home to save his kitten because of the smoke as his home burned to the ground, not humorous.