Ever been rolled out of bed by an earhtquake or some other unnatural disaster?

Question

guess you can tell I 'm a Californian. Once while using a rest room at a service station at Borego(desert) I was unseated by one. Once my son was dreaming he was surfing, only to wake up on his water bed during a good shaking. he yelled at us "surfs up".

Answer 1

Hahaha! Good story!

Lived close to the Mariana Fault line and very close to the Celebes Sea Trench. Early morning in August 16, 1976 I thought that someone (naughty sibling) was playing a joke on me because I could feel the heavy iron bed violently shake continuously. Like a rag doll lying flat in bed, I was tossed about. There were sounds of glass breaking, furnitures falling over, groaning earth, structures caving in, scared screams of the neighbors, dogs howling.

Stood up to investigate, which was very difficult due to the tremors (laughed at myself for walking like a drunk), opened the lights and realized that there was no electricity. The moon was shining which provided light. What greeted me was chaos. Saw my older brother- my tormentor growing up (he ran from his bedroom to mine): eyes wide, skin cold and pale. I laughed some more!

Later on did we realized that we were hit by an intensity 7.8 earthquake and had a major tsunami.

Answer 2

Oh yes, I too, am a Southern California resident, so I know exactly what you're talking about.

Now I haven't been thrown out of the bed, but it was because I was already up. I'm one of those who is sensitive before those things happen. Remember the Landers (7.3) and Big Bear (6.2) quakes that came four or so hours apart back on June 28, 1992? I had been out with friends the night before and gone home in such back pain. It just kept getting worse, but it wasn't anything new to me. When the first one hit, the pain let up suddenly and then started again. I went out to check for damage. Just around four hours later, the second one hit, the pain subsided and didn't return, even with the aftershocks. Same thing happened with the Hector Mine quake (7.1) only the pain wasn't quite as intense. Probably because it was farther away, who knows?

I live right below the San Andres fault. line.

Answer 3

LOL, that was funny. Seriously, I was 'indesposed' one time
in San Jose,and a big tremor rolled through. I held onto the
sink and went with the rolling from one side and back again.
I was alone and a bit scared that I couldn't go anywhere. So I
just held on.
And another time hubby and I were in bed in Portland, Ore.
and we were awakened to a bumping and rolling and I
thought my husband was shaking the bed somehow. And he
woke up and we both realized we were in a bed shifting from
one side of the room to the other. We could only hold on
that time too. You don't realize how helpless you are, until
you ride out a sizeable earthquake, near it's epicenter. They
occur so often in northern Calif. that you'd think people would
get used to them. I didn't tho. My friend was driving on the
freeway, in San Jose that day, and didn't even feel it in her
car. She was surprised to hear about the quake later when
she got home.

Answer 4

I am a native Californian, too and have been through many earthquakes. A lot of them seem to happen early in the morning. The first big one I remember was in the late 1940's or 1950's, the Tehachapi one which knocked my sisters and I out of our beds. We can usually guess the strength of the quakes, 4.5, 3.5, etc.
My decision to move out of state came after those two frightening ones which came in the early 90's a year apart, again early in the morning before daylight. I hope the Big One doesn't happen for your sake. They are not fun, are they?

Answer 5

Several times. First one when I was living in what is now "Korea Town" in Los Angeles in 1965. A quake woke me up and dumped me on the floor. Funny thing was that two weeks earlier some guy blew up a bar across the street and I slept through that event. Second time was when I lived in Signal Hill. We had a horizontal quake and I thought our apartment building was going to slide into the gully that held the old Pacific Electric rail line. But, the best was getting awakened by two quakes, about one hour apart, when we were staying with friends in Orange County, California.

Answer 6

Yep Cyclone Tracey which destroyed my home town Darwin over here in OZ in 1974.
The phone box outside my house came through my bedroom window and if I hadn't flopped back on my bed at that precise moment I would have been decapitated.
The force lifted me up and threw me off my bed down to the other end of the room ( a long bedroom the width of the house) where I ended up somehow with my mum. At that point the ceiling, roof etc started to go. My mum threw herself over me to shield me and took the full force of the collapsing ceiling. My Mum was willing to die for me. I LOVE HER SO MUCH.
Our house then disintegrated around us. I'm still PETRIFIED of storms to this very day.

I don't live in an earthquake area thank goodness. One kind of natural disaster is enough. LOL

Answer 7

Yes, just once...and of all places, it was up in NY! It was back in '73, I think, and we lived on a hill out in the country. Had fallen asleep on the couch and suddenly everything was shaking. Then it just stopped, which was just as scary. Called my family and I think they all thought I was nuts, until it came on the news that evening that there had been a minor quake. Can't imagine going through the real thing like you all do out there in CA, but then I never thought I'd live in a place like I do now where hurricanes are major threats and having to go through mass evacuations.

Answer 8

In the mid 40's there was a big explosion in the moth ball fleet {ships} stored in the bay @ Benicia Calif..it knocked me out of bed..@ about 6am..been through many earthquakes..traveled south this past summer and in Texas we had tornado warnings..now that was nerve racking as maybe or maybe not it will come..we were awake most of the night..an earthquake hits and is over with by the time it registers in your brain that that is what it is..I'll take an earthquake anytime..

Answer 9

I lived in South Florida for 36 years. I went through a lot of hurricanes. I moved to SC and thought a truck had gone by since I felt my mobile home shake,. It was a minor earthquake. So I gave up hurricanes to move to a state that has hurricanes and earthquakes. It ain't easy being blond

Answer 10

Larissa Greece,I was taking a bath in my hotel room and the water began sloshing about,I realized what was happening,lunged out of the bath,wrapped a sheet about me,grabbed my snakes and flew down ten flights of stairs in an instant! Spent the night with everyone else in a park.Good fun...