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Originally Posted by Rochard
I was in California for Loma Prieta too. We went without power for four days. It's amazing how quickly everything in your fridge goes bad with no power. We had no phones either of course. No power also means no restaurants and no stores - we couldn't even leave the area because there was no place to get gas... You could only go as far as your gas tank allowed.
I lived in an apartment back then. We all had a big BBQ and cooked up what little meat we had. The next few days it was all canned goods.
But no one walked around threatening people. I find it hard to believe it was any different in freaking Santa Cruz.
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Were you in Santa Cruz? I was and I know how mellow it is. Unless you are cutting in on some surf rat's wave it is one of the most peace loving places on the planet. Which is why I was shocked when there were flashpoints - that could easily have been worse and luckily were diffused - but those opened my eye witness eyes to the fact of how quickly things can get dangerous in those types of earth shattering, literally in this case, events.