Motor homes and earth quakes.
We are headed for Bakersfield with our 40 ft. Newmar in a few days and they have experienced some strong quakes in that are in the past couple days. Has anyone had any experience with earth quakes?
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2bzy2c wrote:msmith1199 wrote:
An earthquake can break and/or bend your jacks up. If you don't have them down the only think you have to fear is the ground opening up and swallowing you, or something like a tree or building falling on you.
Not sure about the above statement. Seems a bit "out there".
I agree.
I was driving my pickup during the '94 Northridge earthquake. It was the wee hours of the morning and I was driving to a meeting up in Bakersfield. I was on the SB 14 just one exit before where the overpass collapsed and the Highway Patrolman was killed.
Driving over a collapsed overpass or a badly damaged bridge (or being underneath either of those) would be the extreme end of the spectrum. Anything short of that, a vehicle is one of the safest places to be. It just felt like heavy winds to me.
Don't let possible aftershocks affect your trip. We camp out near Ridgecrest and Trona (the recent epicenter) at least once a month in the fall through spring, but I wouldn't head out there on purpose right now, more because of the heat than because of any aftershocks.
