Earthquakes and Phonographs

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Re: Earthquakes and Phonographs

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Rene,
Glad to hear that you and your phonographs are safe and sound. We have hurricanes to worry about here in FLA. One reason why most of my collection are Edison Spring-motor size and smaller is so I can take them with me if I have to evacuate. The poor Amberola 1A will have to stay behind but I have a plan to wrap up and place in a part of the condo that is reasonably protected from wind and water.
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Happy to report my friend and Wife are OK. Some lost china and glassware. However, no juke's to corral up.... :lol:. their service & power were down for hours.
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Re: Earthquakes and Phonographs

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JohnM,

Please report your whereabouts and if you have any plans to move... after being in four earthquakes, they might be following you... :lol:

On a serious note, I'm glad everyone seems to be safe...
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Curt A wrote:JohnM,

Please report your whereabouts and if you have any plans to move... after being in four earthquakes, they might be following you... :lol:

On a serious note, I'm glad everyone seems to be safe...
My friends and family all made jokes about me being an earthquake magnet. I was in more than that, but those are the earthquakes where I was close to the epicenters. The only thing that we owned that was ever damaged in an earthquake was a George Ohr pitcher that received a tiny rim chip during the 1991 Sierra Madre earthquake when another object in a china cabinet struck it. I have never seen/felt the ground move like it did in that earthquake -- the house was rising and falling, sliding side-ways back-and-forth, and even rotating left and right so strongly that I could barely stand up. I looked out the windows and the ground and even the paved street was rising and falling like hundreds of large molehills. It sounded like every nail in the place was pulling from the framing (it was a 1911 redwood Arts & Crafts-style bungalow). One year later to the day, we were having a little earthquake memorial cocktail party with neighbors when there was a huge slam and boom! Mother Nature has a sense of humor!

Arizona is supposed to be more seismically stable than California. Haven't experienced any earthquakes in the two years we've lived here now.

I've always loved this scene from Steve Martin's 'L.A. Story'. That's about the way experienced Californians act during a shaker!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg0fqGEA4MI
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