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Title: Napa is rockin & rollin
Post by: racerrad8 on August 24, 2014, 09:34:27 AM
I tried to call Andy French this morning following a 6.1 earthquake in Napa this morning as that is where he lives. Keep him in your thoughts as well as any other members in the area.

Randy  -RPM
Title: Re: Napa is rockin & rollin
Post by: FJmonkey on August 24, 2014, 09:41:46 AM
Them wineo's can handle a little shaking, they can hardly stand vertical anyway... 6.1 is a good hard shake, I experienced the Northridge quake while in Newhall, CA. It was the most violent shaking I have ever felt from the earth. It was also the discovery of a new thrust fault in Newhall. I hope all is well in the wine country. Post when you can Andy and any others in the area.
Title: Re: Napa is rockin & rollin
Post by: movenon on August 24, 2014, 10:18:42 AM
Quote from: racerrad8 on August 24, 2014, 09:34:27 AM
I tried to call Andy French this morning following a 6.1 earthquake in Napa this morning as that is where he lives. Keep him in your thoughts as well as any other members in the area.

Randy  -RPM

Will do. Thanks Randy.  :good2:
George
Title: Re: Napa is rockin & rollin
Post by: Capn Ron on August 24, 2014, 02:31:01 PM
Most news outlets are reporting only minor injuries, power outages, some fires, water main breaks and lots of broken bottles of wine!!!   :shok:  OHHHH, the humanity!!!

A 6.something earthquake is nothing to take lightly.  Like the monkey, I too was in the Northridge quake and don't ever want to experience that again!  My best wishes to those effected and are having to deal with the aftermath.
Title: Re: Napa is rockin & rollin
Post by: faser41 on August 24, 2014, 03:02:31 PM
I woke up just as it hit at 3:20 this morning and I'm in the East Bay (Dublin).  At 52 not my first quake (born and raised here) but probably in the top 5 or 6 and I am 43 miles from the epicenter.
Title: Re: Napa is rockin & rollin
Post by: Fj.itis on August 24, 2014, 06:13:43 PM
Man hope everyones ok! Its all over the news downunder, so must be a fairly desent one.
Title: Re: Napa is rockin & rollin
Post by: andyoutandabout on August 24, 2014, 08:27:16 PM
This just in..... - phew! a lucky escape for persons and cat here in my corner of Napa.
Much thanks to Randy for a check-in call and Craig Z for a text.
Big clean up job, lots of broken glass, mirrors etc, but no windows where damaged.
Biggest casualties were the flat screen and a printer and a few hairline cracks in the stucco, but no real heartache.
However, the bike got pitched off it's side stand. Luckily those fab engine bars saved everything bar the left hand air scoop (it's always going to be an air scoop).
What's another epoxy seam on those 28 year plastics?
Wife had the luckiest of escapes - full bookcase detaches from wall and narrowly misses the sleeping missus by the smallest of margins.
Naturally I made a video.
Stay tuned
Andy
Title: Re: Napa is rockin & rollin
Post by: Fj.itis on August 24, 2014, 09:54:26 PM
Glad your ok dude! Video will be interesting, never experienced a quake before.
Title: Re: Napa is rockin & rollin
Post by: Firehawk068 on August 24, 2014, 10:47:15 PM
Glad everyone is OK.

Thanks for checking in Andy  :drinks:
Title: Re: Napa is rockin & rollin
Post by: FJmonkey on August 24, 2014, 11:20:31 PM
Happy to hear that all made well with the moving and shaking of the planet...
Title: Re: Napa is rockin & rollin
Post by: Derek Young on August 24, 2014, 11:58:06 PM
Thanks for checking in Andy. Donna and I are glad you and yours are safe. Damn shame about the FJ though...

Derek
Title: Re: Napa is rockin & rollin
Post by: Pat Conlon on August 25, 2014, 12:32:17 AM
Yep, me too...glad you're all ok....

Earthquake Prep 101: Sleep with your shoes next to your bed....after the shaking stops, do not get out of bed unless you put your shoes on first....before anything, underwear, robes, etc....shoes first....even before looking for a flashlight....shoes first.....smell natural gas? That can wait...Put your shoes on first...

Foot lacerations are a bitch and in the chaos of a mass trauma triage, they are very low on the priority list.
You may have to wait for days to get sutures.


Let us know how you are doing Andy.
Title: Re: Napa is rockin & rollin
Post by: movenon on August 25, 2014, 12:46:56 AM
Glad all is well Andy ! Stuff is replaceable.  You and yours not so easy.  Take care my friend, thoughts are still with you.  :drinks:
George
Title: Re: Napa is rockin & rollin
Post by: pdxfj on August 25, 2014, 01:00:53 PM
Thanks for the update Andy and good to hear you're ok.  First person I thought of when I saw the news about the quake.  :)