California July 4th Earthquake

I know that feeling! While the Loma Prieta of '89 was happening I was driving a '84 Mazda B2000 pickup about 25MPH around a slow curve on my street headed home and I thought I had a flat tire because the truck was squirming, waddling like a duck at that slow speed. Then I looked up and saw some power line primaries swinging like crazy and I knew it was a 'quake.

BTW....was that eco-Batman running the stop sign at 31 seconds ?
 
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And yeah, WTF was that little bat car thing?
It was eco-Batman, trying to meet AOC's demand for less emissions. He can't quit eating beef so it's his way of contributing.
BTW if you Google 'batmobile smart car" you'll discover way too many of them...

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Yeah to the car. What an embarrassment!

Must admit, I found the behaviour of the drivers hard to fathom. Surely the safest course of action during a quake is to stop the car in the middle of the road away from buildings and poles and wait for the tremors to pass. I'd have thought driving you'd be at risk of losing control.