Monday, August 25, 2014
Napa
The more the news comes in, the worse it looks. Here is a reasonable summary, with a CNN video. Here is a map. I am waiting anxiously for California friends and bloggers to check in, but I suspect those in the affected area may have other things to do, and may not have net connections... I won't assume the worst about them until I hear it definitively. Everybody please take care.
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OK here in Sonoma. We are on the other side of a granite ridge from Napa....much shaking at 3 in the morning but no damage. Michael
ReplyDeleteThanks for the news, Michael. Glad you're OK! I've also heard from regular commenters c (see below; her parents live not too far south (?) of SF), ellroon (somewhere in southern California) and three of my long-time college friends in the area (one in Berkeley and a couple 50mi northwest of the quake); all were unharmed and mostly undamaged.
DeleteMonterey area --- just fine! =)
ReplyDeleteThat's a relief, c, to me and I know to you as well! I'll answer your email sometime tomorrow, presuming my car is repaired and actually gets me back home... yes, the same old teal-blue Chevy you may remember, though I suspect it's not good for more than another year or two.
DeleteNot much actually happened. The damage was relatively minor (except to bottles of wine). As usual, the minimal amount of damage was ridiculously hyped by the news media. Every residential home in Northern California is wood frame and well tied to its foundation (to keep it from jumping off during a quake) and could handle a much bigger quake, even the older homes are surprisingly earthquake resistant, it turns out that wood frame construction really rides out earthquakes well. Some older commercial buildings saw significant damage, but most of them were overdue for a seismic retrofit in the first place and now it's going to happen. And Napa never had a lot of the kind of residential apartment buildings that are prone to pancake (the "stilt" buildings with parking underneath the apartments). The biggest damage is to the wine. Oh, the poor, poor wine! Sigh.
ReplyDeleteBuy your wine now, guys. The price will be going up...
ReplyDeleteBadTux and ellroon - glad you are OK in your respective homes. I confess most of the wine I drink is Chilean or Australian (so much for locavorism), and if I drink wine daily instead of, say, weekly, it really disagrees with me (diabetes, you know).. But I suppose if the California supply diminishes enough, it will impact the price of all wine from anywhere. Y'all hang in there, and stay safe through the aftershocks.
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