I was working in Redmond at that time. I was talking to a co-worker and all of a sudden, we heard this boom. Our eyes got big and we immediately dove under our desks but we had no clue it was an earthquake until it started shaking. A lot of guys in our warehouse started running outside and some in the front office did the same. I'll never forget hearing our manager on the intercom telling everyone to stay inside. That day, I didn't take 520 home, I took the long way home, through Kirkland, Kenmore, Lake City, and then home.
I was working that day, at my position as a wastewater pump station mechanic and watched the ground make waves like the surface of a pond, with crests and valleys, slowly moving across the surface of an asphalt paved street built on reclaimed mud flats in an industrial area of Hoquiam,Washington. The pavement didn’t break up, there was no traffic on the street and I was the only person to witness that amazing ground effect.
It was absolutely AMAZING!~ I remember watching the asphalt street and concrete sidewalks bend and buckle to the waves passing through without cracking or breaking.
I worked at Sound Ford Special Finance, I was on the stairs at Sound Ford and the Earth started shaking thought I was getting dizzy. Instead people started hollering Earthquake. You know how hard it is to get off stairs when you are in the middle of an earthquake? It was hard and unreal the Ford Sign in front of Sound Ford was swaying and it was a huge sign. Never forget this Earthquake that was the first earthquake I have ever experienced and it was scary as hell 👀
I watched the waves roll through about 30 feet apart peak to peak. I was sitting in a little pickup truck and saw the asphalt and concrete sidewalk being bent without breaking as the waves passed by.
I remember this quake like it was yesterday. I was in high school in history class and my teacher had absolutely no idea what to do..he froze. I had to tell the whole class to get under their desks and cover up. Then when it was over we evacuated and school was cancelled for the rest of the day and the next. I remember the one before it that struck at night too.
Teachers are human, too. It's the flight or fight thing. Did your schools ever have earthquake drills? I'm just curious. IMO schools should have earthquake drills as often as fire drills (or at least regularly), so teachers and students can be in automatic mode once a quake happens. Just a side note: The older a person gets, the longer it takes to mentally process something, too, so if the teacher was older (40+) he may not have even realized immediately what was going on. Glad you were quick to realize what was happening and were able to react right away to help your peers. 🙂
Yep, was in my last month of pregnancy trying to put on my shoes, when the shaking started my black lab/Shepard's mix came running into me and tried getting into what was left of my lap...histerical.
I was in science class watching a video about earthquakes when I happened. I got up from my chair and started walking out the door and the teacher yelled at me to get under my desk. Lol
That's irony for you! I experienced something similar only with a tornado. I was watching a documentary about how tornados form while a storm was increasing in intensity outside my home. When it started hailing, I went out on my porch to check the clouds. I'd been in a tornado before and remembered how low the clouds were, so I wanted to see how low they were at that moment. I literally watched as a tornado began forming in the swirling clouds right above my awning! It was so scary! Thankfully, it didn't finish, and the storm subsided. I later learned there were reports of tornado sightings from that storm in our area. They were all small and didn't damage anything. But it was ironic that I received a first-hand view of how tornados form while watching a show about the exact same thing!
I was at Harborview Hospital working on the parking garage where the helicopters land. The floor started to shake and I thought the forklift was just driving by. I looked around. When I couldn't see the forklift, I figured out it was an earthquake. They sent us home afterwards and, the next day I got laid off.
I think about this all the time because of a crazy coincidence. I was in preschool at the time and we completely by chance had our first earthquake drill around an hour before it hit.
That's ironic! How did you guys handle the quake, then? Were you and your teachers calm? Like, "Oh yeah, we got this! We just practiced!" If I was a kid, I would probably think the teachers knew there was going to be an earthquake that day and that's why they had the drill. So uncanny. Glad no one was killed that day.
@@scootermom1791 Being so young it's hard to remember what was said but you're totally right, until I was much older I had always thought they did the drill because they knew it was going to happen. What I'll never forget is that when we were under the tables I didn't know what was happening and thought the shaking and sound was from the janitor pushing his big cart down the hall because you'd feel the rumble haha.
I worked in a customer service call center in Fife WA, living in Tacoma. I was taking my morning break, had just harnessed up my Seeing Eye dog to take her out to relieve when the modulr building housing about 150 people, began pitching like a boat bucking waves. As a well-trained Alaskan, I stuffed my dog under my desk and dove in after her. She tried to bolt. It was all I could do to hang onto her. Finally, it ended and we evacuated. She barely made it to the foot of the stairs when, you might say it scared the crap out of her. HOLY COW! literally. Took two baggies to clean it up! She was a few inches bigger than a beagle. My husband was on the road and didn't feel it t all. I wanted to strangle him. I saw my life pass before me. I was thankful to find my home intact with no gas explosions and one broken mug. In a house that had already withstood two major quakes, I was mighty grateful. When our water heater was replaced, an earthquake valve was installed.
I was just in Seattle and I really started to feel this. I felt like an earthquake was imminent. The buildings surrounding me were all brick. It will be a huge disaster if the quake reaches beyond 7 magnitude. I can’t even imagine. The infrastructure there is no better than Christchurch and we know what happened there. I feel like the big one could be anytime now.
4 billion dollars! Ironically the Rattle in Seattle cracked open the Nisqually Hwy which is near Olympia & the epicenter of the quake. We had 2 earthquakes 3 days ago of 5 mag near Bandon on the Oregon coast.
@@SheenHunter-SeattleFreeze I live in a state that's long overdue for an earthquake. I hope the small quakes we often experience will tone down the one we are expecting to get, too. It's terrifying to think of the unthinkable. 😨
I was in Bremerton when it happened. I was on the lower floor of a 3 story building working in a daycare. It was hard to run, much less grab toddlers and infants and run.
I was in 1st grade at school listening to the teacher read us a book when the door to the other classroom started banging back and forth in its frame. We all dove under our desks except for this new girl that had no clue what was going, so the teacher had to call her over and pull her under the desk with her. Being in Woodinville, the shaking wasn’t very strong; I hardly remember even feeling the floor move. But pretty soon it was over, the fire alarm went off, and we all filed out to the field like every other drill. The most damage was simply some things falling over and a few picture frames that fell off the walls at home. My dad was working at Boeing, talking with a coworker when it hit. At first when the ceiling started rattling, he thought it was the maintenance workers walking up there, but soon it sounded like they were driving a truck across the roof. It was 3 seconds later when the ground started to rock he realized what it was and dove under his desk. Another coworker joined him in his cubicle as he pulled his emergency bag out of a drawer and under the desk with him. Soon the lights went out and shaking subsided before they gave the call to evacuate the building. One of the concrete pillars he passed had huge cracks running through it. The first thing everyone did when they got outside was pull out their cell phones and call loved ones, but nothing got through. They waited for an hour in the parking lot before management announced the building was unsafe and sent everyone home. Lastly, my Mom was at our friend’s condo celebrating their one year old’s birthday when it happened. Mom grabbed my younger sister while her friend grabbed her kids and they hid underneath the dining room table while watching the sliding glass door roll back and forth; praying the glass wouldn’t shatter. A few minutes after it passed, they reenacted the scene for a photo; swinging the chandelier while everyone smiled from under the table.
That's hilarious! About your mom and her friend reenacting the scene for a photo. That probably helped relieve some of the stress after the quake. Good for them! 🙂
I was living at a 911 dispatch center as a resident firefighter. I remember an agnostic firefighter screaming oh God help! The next thing I knew I was in a medic unit trying to get to a call and going over a bridge. we had an aftershock while crossing. It felt like all the tires on the rig had gone flat. It was scary as Hell.
There was only TWO recorded aftershocks following 6.8 earthquake. Those both aftershocks were only 3 point something and was so deep under... over 30 miles deep to be detected by human. Your story sounded bit uhhh you know.
THAT'S RIGHT! Growing up in Washington we are taught about this very many people that move here do not think about this all the time. It's my washer machine is shaking the house I go on high alert thinking this is it This is the big one every single time
@@SheenHunter-SeattleFreeze Considering how washing machines shake for a lot of different reasons (ie being imbalanced), I couldn't help but laughing at your comment. 🙂 😉 But seriously, earthquakes are terrifying. And many of them only last a few seconds, so it doesn't give people a lot of time to react. I remember the images from California's Loma Prieta earthquake and the Northridge Earthquake from when I was younger. I was surprised to learn the initial quakes only lasted less than 20 seconds! The images from those quakes and the Mexican quake from 1985 will stay with me forever.
I was 14, in science class in Tacoma. I'll never forget watching the floors become waves and the desks going everywhere. When they let us back in after being evacuated the floors looked like a wave pool along with the field outside. Ford and Franklin Pierce had a lot of damage.
The aluminum extrusions on the pallet I was bent over at the time started vibrating. I ran to the band saw, which was bolted to the floor, ducked under it and held on tight.
I was down by the ferry in mukilteo just up the hill pouring a footing for a foundation, not far from the bluff that keeps sliding and stopping the sounder from running. I thought I might end up in the sound...
I was working in the U.S.West (Qwest) building on the 20th floor, it shook for about 30seconds... I knew we were in a new building and I could see the older ones out the window, I told myself if one of those old buildings fell I was gonna try to run down the stairs. After it ended the big H.R. Lady came in and said "The Safest Place is in the Building!"... I said to my friend Vince, "I don't think the H.R. Lady knows much about Geology" and he said "I ain't dying in this hell hole" and he stood up and started our escape--- Turned out, they wanted to keep all of us low level employees in the building until the Executives escaped
I was on the 33rd Floor of Two Union Square. I was on the Safety Committee of Johnston & Culberson, Inc. We were discussion earthquake preparation... I was in a bigger earthquake in 1964 in Alaska.
I was home. My video camera fell.off the book shelf and the oven wobbled across the floor... Went outside and the road was rolling like waves. No actual damage though. It was exciting and fun for me. But Seattle is on fill... Subject to liquifaction. Tacoma is mostly bedrock. Much more stable.
I was looking for my ferret Woozle so I could put him away and head to work when I heard this awful sound. Then my house seemed to jump and sway. I tried to get outside because I was afraid my house was collapsing. I couldn't stay standing and my street was rippling, power poles swaying. It was awful! I heard it before I felt it. When I went back inside I had furniture over turned, cracks in a couple walls. My little ferret was safely asleep in my son's dresser. I was never scared of quakes and have been through a few here in the great PNW but that one gave me a fear of them now. To this day you cannot drink the water in Eatonville and it smells strongly of sulfur. They say it was the quake and it can't be fixed.
I can't believe the control tower was destroyed! What happened with aircraft during that time? I certainly hope they have retrofitted the tower since then.
ANOTHER SECRET: While recovering from a near DEATH experience in Kitsap county (Silverdale WA) from being slipped a MICKEY in Seattle after leaving my MICROSOFT interview after buying hot chocolate at the Starbucks stand in the old ferry terminal going to Bremerton. ON EVERYTHING I LOVE
my mother was still a child and lived in Seattle, her mom had drug issues and when my mom and her many siblings felt the quake they freaked out and went under the table but their mom made them get out from under the table like there wasn't an earthquake going on. so instead of taking cover they looked out the window to see the mailman hanging on to a mailbox half way out his cars window
The MOST RIDICULOUS THING EVER!!! I was born and raised in California. We had earthquake drills in school. This was NOT a significant event. The only building that fell was one that was already condemned and the worst injury was a twisted ankle. This put Seattle on the map as a bunch of PUNKS!!!!!
I laughed the entire time, and still rewatch the simulation while i wait for the earth quake, hurricane, Gods' bless America with the plague marathon that doesn't make me laugh with the sky and ground... Lahardiharharharder... Volcano squirrel pride futher mucker!
I was working in Redmond at that time. I was talking to a co-worker and all of a sudden, we heard this boom. Our eyes got big and we immediately dove under our desks but we had no clue it was an earthquake until it started shaking. A lot of guys in our warehouse started running outside and some in the front office did the same. I'll never forget hearing our manager on the intercom telling everyone to stay inside. That day, I didn't take 520 home, I took the long way home, through Kirkland, Kenmore, Lake City, and then home.
Hello beautiful you look so beautiful and your smile is so adorable ☺️
I was working that day, at my position as a wastewater pump station mechanic and watched the ground make waves like the surface of a pond, with crests and valleys, slowly moving across the surface of an asphalt paved street built on reclaimed mud flats in an industrial area of Hoquiam,Washington. The pavement didn’t break up, there was no traffic on the street and I was the only person to witness that amazing ground effect.
That was before cell phones we're touched and had good cameras...
It was absolutely AMAZING!~ I remember watching the asphalt street and concrete sidewalks bend and buckle to the waves passing through without cracking or breaking.
Kind of a birds' eye view.
@@earthquakekellyruneshine7934That would be so surreal!
My son was born 10 minutes before this earthquake
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I was walking on Mercer Street toward Lower Queen Anne and I'll never forget it. I'm in Pennsylvania now, no earthquakes...but I'll be coming back.
I worked at Sound Ford Special Finance, I was on the stairs at Sound Ford and the Earth started shaking thought I was getting dizzy. Instead people started hollering Earthquake. You know how hard it is to get off stairs when you are in the middle of an earthquake? It was hard and unreal the Ford Sign in front of Sound Ford was swaying and it was a huge sign. Never forget this Earthquake that was the first earthquake I have ever experienced and it was scary as hell 👀
We lived in Seattle in 65. I was trying to get town our home stairs. I ws a small five=year-old and got bounced around like a ping-pong ball!
The floors felt like the were waves, I remember it...
I watched the waves roll through about 30 feet apart peak to peak. I was sitting in a little pickup truck and saw the asphalt and concrete sidewalk being bent without breaking as the waves passed by.
I remember it too and it really did feel like you were on a big jello blob or something
I remember this quake like it was yesterday. I was in high school in history class and my teacher had absolutely no idea what to do..he froze. I had to tell the whole class to get under their desks and cover up. Then when it was over we evacuated and school was cancelled for the rest of the day and the next. I remember the one before it that struck at night too.
Teachers are human, too. It's the flight or fight thing. Did your schools ever have earthquake drills? I'm just curious. IMO schools should have earthquake drills as often as fire drills (or at least regularly), so teachers and students can be in automatic mode once a quake happens.
Just a side note: The older a person gets, the longer it takes to mentally process something, too, so if the teacher was older (40+) he may not have even realized immediately what was going on. Glad you were quick to realize what was happening and were able to react right away to help your peers. 🙂
Me too, I was in science class. I'll never forget it
Yep, was in my last month of pregnancy trying to put on my shoes, when the shaking started my black lab/Shepard's mix came running into me and tried getting into what was left of my lap...histerical.
Awww the baby knew where was safe, you mama!
Hilarious! I can just picture it.
I was in science class watching a video about earthquakes when I happened. I got up from my chair and started walking out the door and the teacher yelled at me to get under my desk. Lol
Teacher get under your desk you gets out of the classroom classroom roof collapsing you safe
That's irony for you! I experienced something similar only with a tornado. I was watching a documentary about how tornados form while a storm was increasing in intensity outside my home. When it started hailing, I went out on my porch to check the clouds. I'd been in a tornado before and remembered how low the clouds were, so I wanted to see how low they were at that moment. I literally watched as a tornado began forming in the swirling clouds right above my awning! It was so scary! Thankfully, it didn't finish, and the storm subsided.
I later learned there were reports of tornado sightings from that storm in our area. They were all small and didn't damage anything. But it was ironic that I received a first-hand view of how tornados form while watching a show about the exact same thing!
I was at Harborview Hospital working on the parking garage where the helicopters land. The floor started to shake and I thought the forklift was just driving by. I looked around. When I couldn't see the forklift, I figured out it was an earthquake. They sent us home afterwards and, the next day I got laid off.
Wtf why would you get laid off since I was like a really interesting story and then sad
You have got to be kidding!? Getting laid off the day after an earthquake when hospital personell could potentially be needed the most? That's insane!
I was in a 7 story building in Eugene Oregon and the shaking was crazy!
Terrifying!!
I was shopping in Albertsons in Spanaway WA . It’s crazy & scary too . Be safe & Blessings from the Sonoran Desert 🌵 🌞 🌴
I think about this all the time because of a crazy coincidence. I was in preschool at the time and we completely by chance had our first earthquake drill around an hour before it hit.
Wow
That's ironic! How did you guys handle the quake, then? Were you and your teachers calm? Like, "Oh yeah, we got this! We just practiced!" If I was a kid, I would probably think the teachers knew there was going to be an earthquake that day and that's why they had the drill. So uncanny. Glad no one was killed that day.
@@scootermom1791 Being so young it's hard to remember what was said but you're totally right, until I was much older I had always thought they did the drill because they knew it was going to happen. What I'll never forget is that when we were under the tables I didn't know what was happening and thought the shaking and sound was from the janitor pushing his big cart down the hall because you'd feel the rumble haha.
@@niftysynth That's so cute! Lol
I worked in a customer service call center in Fife WA, living in Tacoma. I was taking my morning break, had just harnessed up my Seeing Eye dog to take her out to relieve when the modulr building housing about 150 people, began pitching like a boat bucking waves. As a well-trained Alaskan, I stuffed my dog under my desk and dove in after her. She tried to bolt. It was all I could do to hang onto her.
Finally, it ended and we evacuated. She barely made it to the foot of the stairs when, you might say it scared the crap out of her. HOLY COW! literally. Took two baggies to clean it up! She was a few inches bigger than a beagle. My husband was on the road and didn't feel it t all. I wanted to strangle him. I saw my life pass before me.
I was thankful to find my home intact with no gas explosions and one broken mug. In a house that had already withstood two major quakes, I was mighty grateful. When our water heater was replaced, an earthquake valve was installed.
I was just in Seattle and I really started to feel this. I felt like an earthquake was imminent. The buildings surrounding me were all brick. It will be a huge disaster if the quake reaches beyond 7 magnitude. I can’t even imagine. The infrastructure there is no better than Christchurch and we know what happened there. I feel like the big one could be anytime now.
4 billion dollars! Ironically the Rattle in Seattle cracked open the Nisqually Hwy which is near Olympia & the epicenter of the quake. We had 2 earthquakes 3 days ago of 5 mag near Bandon on the Oregon coast.
Hopefully all of these smaller earthquakes around our ring of fire is keeping back or toning down the big one we're overdue for
@@SheenHunter-SeattleFreeze I live in a state that's long overdue for an earthquake. I hope the small quakes we often experience will tone down the one we are expecting to get, too. It's terrifying to think of the unthinkable. 😨
Hello beautiful you look so beautiful and your smile is so adorable ☺️
Olympia had the worst damage by far. This earthquake sent the spire on the capitol building and the 4th Avenue Bridge tumbling.
I was tying a surgeons gown when it hit....he kept backing up until my back was against the wall....scary....
That’s good he wasn’t performing surgery, but that’s scary though.
@@msi8311 that's exactly what I was thinking! Lol 🙂
I was on the playground at morning recess and I just remember the cars in the parking lot moving like they were driving on the road
The aftershock wasn't fun either
I was in Bremerton when it happened. I was on the lower floor of a 3 story building working in a daycare. It was hard to run, much less grab toddlers and infants and run.
I was in 1st grade at school listening to the teacher read us a book when the door to the other classroom started banging back and forth in its frame. We all dove under our desks except for this new girl that had no clue what was going, so the teacher had to call her over and pull her under the desk with her. Being in Woodinville, the shaking wasn’t very strong; I hardly remember even feeling the floor move. But pretty soon it was over, the fire alarm went off, and we all filed out to the field like every other drill. The most damage was simply some things falling over and a few picture frames that fell off the walls at home.
My dad was working at Boeing, talking with a coworker when it hit. At first when the ceiling started rattling, he thought it was the maintenance workers walking up there, but soon it sounded like they were driving a truck across the roof. It was 3 seconds later when the ground started to rock he realized what it was and dove under his desk. Another coworker joined him in his cubicle as he pulled his emergency bag out of a drawer and under the desk with him. Soon the lights went out and shaking subsided before they gave the call to evacuate the building. One of the concrete pillars he passed had huge cracks running through it. The first thing everyone did when they got outside was pull out their cell phones and call loved ones, but nothing got through. They waited for an hour in the parking lot before management announced the building was unsafe and sent everyone home.
Lastly, my Mom was at our friend’s condo celebrating their one year old’s birthday when it happened. Mom grabbed my younger sister while her friend grabbed her kids and they hid underneath the dining room table while watching the sliding glass door roll back and forth; praying the glass wouldn’t shatter. A few minutes after it passed, they reenacted the scene for a photo; swinging the chandelier while everyone smiled from under the table.
That's hilarious! About your mom and her friend reenacting the scene for a photo. That probably helped relieve some of the stress after the quake. Good for them! 🙂
I was living at a 911 dispatch center as a resident firefighter. I remember an agnostic firefighter screaming oh God help! The next thing I knew I was in a medic unit trying to get to a call and going over a bridge. we had an aftershock while crossing. It felt like all the tires on the rig had gone flat. It was scary as Hell.
There was only TWO recorded aftershocks following 6.8 earthquake. Those both aftershocks were only 3 point something and was so deep under... over 30 miles deep to be detected by human. Your story sounded bit uhhh you know.
So... an agnostic, someone not even necessarily a nonbeliever, stated a super common phrase unrelated in any way to religion when in shock? Woah...
I was working on the 16th floor in downtown PDX sitting on an inflatable plastic ball chair writing code. Very memorable.
Videos like this are great. Reminds me that at any moment we could get totally wrecked by the big one, and that we need to be ready for it.
THAT'S RIGHT! Growing up in Washington we are taught about this very many people that move here do not think about this all the time. It's my washer machine is shaking the house I go on high alert thinking this is it This is the big one every single time
@@SheenHunter-SeattleFreeze Considering how washing machines shake for a lot of different reasons (ie being imbalanced), I couldn't help but laughing at your comment. 🙂 😉 But seriously, earthquakes are terrifying. And many of them only last a few seconds, so it doesn't give people a lot of time to react. I remember the images from California's Loma Prieta earthquake and the Northridge Earthquake from when I was younger. I was surprised to learn the initial quakes only lasted less than 20 seconds! The images from those quakes and the Mexican quake from 1985 will stay with me forever.
I remember that day my daughter was almost 1 wow, time has flown...
I was 14, in science class in Tacoma. I'll never forget watching the floors become waves and the desks going everywhere. When they let us back in after being evacuated the floors looked like a wave pool along with the field outside. Ford and Franklin Pierce had a lot of damage.
The aluminum extrusions on the pallet I was bent over at the time started vibrating. I ran to the band saw, which was bolted to the floor, ducked under it and held on tight.
I was 2 yr old and on the toilet at the library
Hello beautiful you look so beautiful and your smile is so adorable ☺️
I was in Home Ec Class in Mukilteo. Right next to a gas stove. Thankfully it didn't rupture.
I was down by the ferry in mukilteo just up the hill pouring a footing for a foundation, not far from the bluff that keeps sliding and stopping the sounder from running. I thought I might end up in the sound...
Scary! Thank goodness it didn't.
I was on the first floor of the Smith Tower during the quake.
My parents were working at their offices in Redmond when it happened and I didn’t exist yet. The buildings were literally swaying
I was in the NICU in Kirkland when the Earthquake happened. My mom and Grandma always told me about it.
I was working in the U.S.West (Qwest) building on the 20th floor, it shook for about 30seconds... I knew we were in a new building and I could see the older ones out the window, I told myself if one of those old buildings fell I was gonna try to run down the stairs. After it ended the big H.R. Lady came in and said "The Safest Place is in the Building!"... I said to my friend Vince, "I don't think the H.R. Lady knows much about Geology" and he said "I ain't dying in this hell hole" and he stood up and started our escape--- Turned out, they wanted to keep all of us low level employees in the building until the Executives escaped
I was on the 33rd Floor of Two Union Square. I was on the Safety Committee of Johnston & Culberson, Inc. We were discussion earthquake preparation... I was in a bigger earthquake in 1964 in Alaska.
I was home. My video camera fell.off the book shelf and the oven wobbled across the floor... Went outside and the road was rolling like waves. No actual damage though. It was exciting and fun for me. But Seattle is on fill... Subject to liquifaction. Tacoma is mostly bedrock. Much more stable.
This was absolute terror for me. Part of my school collapsed.
I remember I was downtown living on the third floor my son was born day after
I was in my college class when the shaking hit
I remember it so well. I was on Capitol Hill working for Iron Mountain. I saw the aftermath on 1st Ave in the International District.
Well what i vividly remeber was when the space needele was groaning
Went through both of of those quakes seems like we're due for the big one any time
People in CA freaking out about a 4.1 2 second shake.
Four billion dollars??? That's more then the damage that the eruption of Mt St Helens caused!?
Populated area vs wilderness area.
@@MollyFC Good point!
I was 3 years old when this happened
I was looking for my ferret Woozle so I could put him away and head to work when I heard this awful sound. Then my house seemed to jump and sway. I tried to get outside because I was afraid my house was collapsing. I couldn't stay standing and my street was rippling, power poles swaying. It was awful! I heard it before I felt it. When I went back inside I had furniture over turned, cracks in a couple walls. My little ferret was safely asleep in my son's dresser. I was never scared of quakes and have been through a few here in the great PNW but that one gave me a fear of them now. To this day you cannot drink the water in Eatonville and it smells strongly of sulfur. They say it was the quake and it can't be fixed.
I can't believe the control tower was destroyed! What happened with aircraft during that time? I certainly hope they have retrofitted the tower since then.
They built a new one.
@@nolanrhager2613 That's good - as long as they built it strong enough to withstand earthquakes now. 🙂
Lived through it, don't remember it. According to my Mom I was at the puppet theater.
ANOTHER SECRET: While recovering from a near DEATH experience in Kitsap county (Silverdale WA) from being slipped a MICKEY in Seattle after leaving my MICROSOFT interview after buying hot chocolate at the Starbucks stand in the old ferry terminal going to Bremerton. ON EVERYTHING I LOVE
lol i remember my dad told me he was sleeping during it
school stresses us out sm that i hope we get hit again 🙄
my mother was still a child and lived in Seattle, her mom had drug issues and when my mom and her many siblings felt the quake they freaked out and went under the table but their mom made them get out from under the table like there wasn't an earthquake going on. so instead of taking cover they looked out the window to see the mailman hanging on to a mailbox half way out his cars window
That is horrifying! Poor kids! I'm glad they survived the quake.
Never have earthquake before
I have a vivid story to share: I was not in this earthquake
Get prepared now or get hungry later.
Who down votes this
The MOST RIDICULOUS THING EVER!!! I was born and raised in California. We had earthquake drills in school. This was NOT a significant event. The only building that fell was one that was already condemned and the worst injury was a twisted ankle. This put Seattle on the map as a bunch of PUNKS!!!!!
According to you. But to people who haven't experienced anything like this before, it's terrifying. Have some empathy!
I was in jail haha
2001 1002
Anyone watching old videos after it felt like roomba bumped your couch a little too hard last night?
I laughed the entire time, and still rewatch the simulation while i wait for the earth quake, hurricane, Gods' bless America with the plague marathon that doesn't make me laugh with the sky and ground... Lahardiharharharder...
Volcano squirrel pride futher mucker!