Yes, we talked about it for a long time while we were shaking the fine dust off of our sleeping bags. The dust from the fissure covered the entire range.

Yet, like idiots, we still had to look around and find out if there was any evidence of the quake.

By the way, the northwestern park of the range dropped two feet, or maybe the northeastern part was uplifted two feet.

It was an amazing event.

wow VIC .. sorry I missed your post ... that's gotta be so weird about the earth dropping ... or rising ... :yikes:

you're in my thoughts ... on a Packer note: I like Aaron Rogers ... YOU??

Vic you fogot to add 2 very important items:

TP and tampons (for us ladies, in case we are visiting)

hmmm, perhaps a nip or 2 of a certain 12 y/o scotch might be nice too. And don't forget the digital camera to upload photos

Vic, I'm staying on the coast in San Diego and I am so looking forward to it -- a piece of heaven. I know if you go further inland it gets much hotter. By the way, has there ever been a Calif. GTG?

I heard my first tornado siren last year in North TX! It was so freaky. This may be a dumb question, Curious, but is there such a thing as a tornado kit?? About a month or two ago a bad storm (incld. possible tornado?) came blowing through our neighborhood around 4 a.m. Curious, you may remember this. My husband had woken up for some reason and went downstairs and got on the internet. He was watching the weather radar and saw a very LARGE storm moving through. All of a sudden his ears popped and he thought "oh s%&*#*%!" maybe the barometric pressure had changed and a tornado was coming. Anyhow, I was in a dead sleep at 4 am and he came busting in the room yelling "get out of bed, come with me...get out of bed! get out of bed! :eek: I was totally disoriented. We got in the crawl space/tiny closet underneath the stairs, closed the door, and sat out the storm. It knocked down several fences in the neighborhood, took off some serious shingles on the roof, and uprooted a small tree next door. A tornado had touched down a briefly a few miles from our house. Anyhow, all I could think of was if the tornado came through and took our house away we'd be standing in the middle of the street in the rain in our skivvies. :wink: I'm thinking maybe I live in tornado alley???

Additional ideas for disaster emergency kits can be found online at www.ready.gov and at www.redcross.org/disaster/safety/fdsk.pdf.

After the milor earthquake we had in southern Illinois a couple of months ago I check the USGSA (or something like that) web site every day. I check it not necause I am worried but it really is very interesting. We just had another small one today. But it looks like Nevada and California are being pounded. Alaska is always having something also.