[PRCo] Re: Quake & Bake

[Jim Holland]

You were very fortunate, Jerry!     Yes that was a quake.     No trolley 
strike since the early to mid-1970s  --  if there was a strike then bus, 
cables, Trolley Coach and TrolleyCar would not be operating.     Do you 
get out this way very often?     AnyOne  coming this way, please drop a 
line.     Can't promise anything but there is always the possibility 
that arrangements can be made for a tour of the area to known and other 
areas just as wonderful.
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The reports I see here here on the earthquake are subjective, not unlike 
10 people witnessing an accident // event and you will get 20 different 
stories back.     They need verification for validity  --  that is part 
of life.     People who are shocked // knocked off their feet can see 
anything.     I__Was__Here,__Too.     I am guessing that was about 
dinner time because I remember being at the table and the kids being 
spooked.     You just roll with the punches.
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I understand people not wanting to be involved with earthquakes, but I 
also know that we make more of incidents than is reality.     
SnoozePapers also list 3.1 'tremors' as earthquakes and they probably 
are technically but the majority of us never feel those  --  and 
snoozepapers sell on excitement and this is exciting And Sensationalism  
--  Not unlike recessions // depression  --  Recession when neighbor 
affected but Depression when personally affected.     Then there are 
'quakes' that knock things off shelves and break a window or two  --  
but this also happens with stronger storms in many areas which happen 
far more frequently than earthquakes.     Part of it is conditioning  
--  people are conditioned to storms  (storm shutters to prevent 
breakage of windows used to be on many homes)  and I am not talking 
about hurricane country but weather in places like Pgh., Cleveland, 
Ohio, Chicago, etc.     I can remember many storms where damage was done 
but they are so frequent that it isn't exciting for snoozepapers to 
report on each one.     Earthquakes are far less frequent.       
Frequent statement from the 1950s is just as true if not more true 
today    ----    """Believe 50% of what you read; none of what you hear"""
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They say a big quake is coming within several decades  --  hope it 
doesn't happen and hope I don't experience it but what can we do.
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----- Original Message ----
From: Jerry Matt Matsick <mtoytrain at bellsouth.net>
To: Pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 5:52:58 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Quake & Bake

Jim the "earthquake of 1989" was something else, just two days prior to 
the quake I  drove on the freeway that collapsed, out on a business trip 
to Walnut Creek, we drove several times on that freeway in and out of 
the bay area, and would you believe there was a trolley strike in San 
Francisco, correct me if I am wrong.  I was traveled to the Bay Area 
several times in 1989 so I may be mistaken.
--
Jerry "Matt" Matsick
Jacksonville, Florida
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Herb Brannon wrote:
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> The SF Cronicle headline that evening was "ROLLERQUAKE" spread all 
> over the front page in tall letters. It was the quake which did a lot 
> of damage to a government facility of some type at Livermore, CA. I 
> was in a frame house on Deloris Street. My buddy from Pgh (who moved 
> to CA) lived there. We were waiting for two girls to get there. They 
> were on the streetcar on Market Street coming to Deloris St. The young 
> ladies told us about the trolley tracks and I experienced the house 
> swaying back and forth as I made my way down the long hallway from the 
> kitchen to the front door............hopefully to get to the "safety" 
> of the door frame. It stopped when I arrived at the doorframe.
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> The earthquake, however, was on January 24, 1980 and centered 10 miles 
> NW of Livermore. It registered 5.8 on the Richter Scale. It was what 
> is called a "rolling earthquake" and causes things to sway and bend 
> then return to their original shape. Check it out............I was 
> there. Also, I will never go there again. There is no escape other 
> than having a hot-air ballon standing by in your yard. After that I 
> knew why Enrico Caruso never returned after his performance at the 
> Opera House in April, 1906.
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> Jim Holland <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com> wrote:
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> We had tremors in the late 1970s and early 1980s but not an earthquake.
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>
> Herb Brannon
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