My cat didn't reappear from the basement crawl space until the next morning,
and was still shaken up for a while after that. But I just had a few things
fall over at home (in Alki) -- nothing broke. My mom, who lives up the hill
from me (I'm on the flat peninsula), had many things come out of her kitchen
cupboards and break, lots of things fell off shelves all over the house, all
pictures askew, etc. I was downtown when it happened, 15 floors up -- very
scary! Then went and caught a totally packed bus to West Seattle an hour
after the quake, which proceeded to get on the lower level of the 99
Viaduct, southbound -- BEFORE they shut it down to check it. In hindsight
that was probably the scariest thing. Can't believe they didn't shut it
down immediately for inspection. Have seen many damaged chimneys in West
Seattle.

Andrea Grad
Alki
agrad at helsell.com

-----Original Message-----
From: WMeadowlark at att.net [mailto:WMeadowlark at att.net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 3:43 PM
To: celata at pacifier.com; Tweeters at u.washington.edu
Cc: WMeadowlark at att.net
Subject: Re: You guys okay up there?



Um......I think so. I still have power, (I live in
Littlerock, Thurston county), but Tumwater north is
pretty much out. From what the TV is showing the
epicenter was right at the mouth of the Nisqually River,
right there in our Wildlife Refuge. Don't know how
they're doing. The highways were a nightmare, some
bridges are cracked, there's a mudslide on 101 between
Ollympia and Shelton. Capitol Building has cracked dome
and columns..when I drove past it I swear it looked like
it was leaning to the northwest..but that might be my
still thumping heart. My (well) water is filthy, full of
grit and dirt, I get it from 90 feet down. I've gone
through two 10 micron filters and it's still caking up
like mud. Cedar Creek (location??) is flooding a
neighborhood. Heard of two deaths, but I may be wrong.
All in all,it's pretty severe. I'm lucky that I live in
a one story house, and work in a doublewide trailer
office. When my computer monitor started hopping up and
down, I ran like a rabbit out the door, followed by
coworkers and boss. We stood outside and swayed back and
forth like sailors on deck of a storm tossed ship. (I
work at Ft. Lewis, about ten miles..max..from the
epicenter.)
Funny thing, I was thinking two things during the
quake...."this thing is going to go on forever" and "no
sound?" Not a sound, not a rumble, not like the others
I've been in. That's how I knew it was a deep earth
quake.
Minor damage at home, and one VERY SCARED CAT who was
finally located behind the dryer, still shaking after an
hour after the quake.
--
Michelle Blanchard
WMeadowlark at att.net
Olympia, WA