[Elecraft] 5.6 Earthquake very close to San Jose

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

I was raised east of Los Angeles and the saying went, "It's not an
earthquake unless there were whitecaps on the waves in the swimming pool!" 

Then, as an adult Californian who had lived through dozens of the things,
some big enough to knock me off of my feet, it was kinda "ho-hum" when the
ground rocked hard enough to make me think I had a flat tire on my way home
from work near San Francisco one afternoon in 1989. 

It was after I got home that I learned the freeway I frequented through
Oakland had collapsed and people had died, crushed in their cars under tons
of concrete. 

I still miss the old downtown Santa Cruz where I often had coffee and where
other people died when the brick walls fell on them that day.

Nothing about life is more fragile than life itself. 

It's always worth taking nature seriously. 

And being ready to help however we can.

It's what people who care do.

It's what Hams do.  

Ron AC7AC