re: #80 Charles Johnson

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I remember the first earthquake I ever felt. I had been stationed in Egypt, at the tip of the Sinai Peninsula, we were living in what were basically construction trailers divided into small rooms. When the wind blew hard they would rock a little.

My next assignment was at Ft. Ord in Monterey CA. Big huge steel / masonry barracks building. Wake up about 3 in the morning, bed is sort of rocking back and forth a bit. I’m thinking, “Man, that wind must really be blowing to move this building” and fell promptly back to sleep. It wasn’t until the next morning I found out it was a tremor. If I had know at 3 am it was an earthquake it would have freaked me out.

RBS