The Silamar earthquake in the early 1970's.
We lived in a second floor apartment, and during the quake, while I was in the kitchen, the floor opened up and you could see the crack widen across the entire complex. It was surreal.


The Northridge earthquake...Oye Vey...
I ran out of my university office to get out of the building during the quake, and was tossed from one side of the 12'-waide hallway to the other side several times as I was running/stumbling out of the building......only to get outside and watch concrete start to break off of the buildling and fall around us. I just stood there like a deer in the headlights...like an idiot.


9/11 - 9/15:
The absence of commercial air traffic still leaves me with some odd memories. And, the constant F-16 CAPS left so much uncertainty that I will never forget it.


9/16/2001:
The sight of an MD-11 on final approach to Ontario International Airport with two F-16's flanking it all the way to the tarmac and two more F-16's about 1 mile in tow. It was the first commercial aircraft that I saw since 9/11, and I can still see it hanging in the air on final approach. The event actually stopped traffic completely on a major California freeway.