Quake

All it really felt like here was the ground shaking like Jello. The some details are below.

LOS ANGELES - A strong earthquake shook Southern California on Tuesday, causing buildings to sway and triggering some precautionary evacuations. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The jolt was felt from Los Angeles to San Diego, across the border in Tijuana, Mexico and slightly in Las Vegas.

The 11:42 a.m. quake was initially estimated at 5.8 by the U.S. Geological Survey but was revised downward to 5.4. More than a dozen aftershocks quickly followed, the largest estimated at magnitude-3.8.

The quake was centered 29 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles near the San Bernardino County city of Chino Hills, and was estimated to be about 8 miles below the earth's surface.

California is one of the world's most seismically active regions. More than 300 faults crisscross the state, which sits atop two of Earth's major tectonic plates, the Pacific and North American plates. About 10,000 quakes each year rattle Southern California alone, although most of them are too small to be felt.

Flood Video

This is one of the many that are on YouTube:

Dry, Dry Desert

So it does rain here in the desert, just a little. I saw about 15 or so cars dead on the sides of the road and a few , such as the white car, dead in the road. Apparently a lot of people don't realize that their cars are not submarines, including about 4 cops that I saw - 3 Crown Vics and a Durango.


Whats cool is that everyone brings out their big off-road trucks, so there are a lot of really big, nice trucks driving around.This car was getting flooded just sitting outside its house.
This is the intersection where my street comes out to the main street that runs North-South.
The stalled white car mentioned above:
Driving on Downs St.

House sitting

So I was house sitting this weekend with Magnus:

Hes a good dog, and a big dog, and he dreams a lot apparently. The other morning he was under the bed growling and boofing lightly. And then he was next to the coffee table the next night and kicked it in his sleep and almost knocked all the stuff off of it.

Engagement Photos

I went back to ABQ for a weekend for engagement photos and to see the family since they were in town. We also went and changed my tux around (I'm not sure what we changed, but something is different).

Ah, and I was also stuck in the airports for so long (both ways) that I could have driven there and back quicker (and for almost the same price) in the truck!

Mountaineering 2

Time to play catch up. I’ll start with the mountaineering class since this is our last week. We have been rock climbing, repelling, and rock climbing again. And this week for the class party we will be going out to rock climb again.

This is climbing one of the rocks, I have no idea which one it was since the picture is so close up. I love doing this , I would do it all day if I didn't think my fingertips would fall off. This was repelling at Fossil Falls, this was the "hard one", I think because of the small opening just off the top. It was pretty nice, almost straight down with some free fall at the end.

Riding finally, Woohoo!

I finally got to go riding for the first time since I got here, I got the Pred registered on Friday and took it out Sunday. It was pretty hot so I only rode for about 2 hours.
It was a lot clearer than I had expected with the fires...to bad I didn't bring the good camera with me.Turns out I sliced a tire on the ride, guess I'll be fixing that on my day off.