Well it's been an eventful day to say the least. I was down in Pleasanton at the GG WCN show with my car. The quake hit and woke me up with the hotel swaying back and forth. I thought, holy sh*t if I felt it that much in Pleasanton and that quake was in SF, its the big on and there will be major damage. A minute later my wife calls. The kids are crying and the dogs are barking. She was really shaken too. She said everything has crashed off the walls, out of the cabinets, the dresser has fallen on my son and so one. I packed up and headed home to help with the clean up.
As we all found out, the quake was centered here. My family and I got off lucky compared to many. Lots of broken items inside and outside. We lost 3.5 ft of water out,of our pool. That would have been crazy to see. Much of it flooded into the neighbors yard and washed all his bark into his pool. (Sorry)
Luckily I had the Camaro at the show and not in the garage as cabinets emptied out and one fell over. I was also lucky that my wine fridge didn't fall over. It just moved a foot to the west. Some friend lost thousands of dollars in wine.
The energy of the quake was an east to west slip. Anything on our east walls fell and the furniture tipped over. All our flat panels are on north walls and none moved or fell luckily. Oddly, items on the west walls were fine too.
My dad who lives in town has his 30 Pheaton roll off his lift. Fortunately it was on the ground and wasn't up in the air. His shops are a mess though. It's sure sucks having to clean every room in your house.
I really feel for the wineries. I am seeing some horrible pictures and videos on Facebook. Big losses. Racks of full barrels stacked to the warehouse ceilings toppled over. Silver Oak got hit hard too. Here is a pic from a small producer here.
Here is a local favorite Trefethen. Great family winery just up the road. Catastrophic.
Not sure if this will work. I copied the link off face book. Another small winery. The clear liquid is a white wine, the other is a red obviously.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...00000866152894
A buddies loss... One of many
All in all the broken things are just things and things can be replaced. Most everyone is safe and that is the most important thing.
I am sure there will be much more to come over the next few days.
Thanks for the well wishes and prayers.
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