Posted on 08/24/2014 9:48:41 AM PDT by editor-surveyor
NAPA, Calif. (AP) — The largest earthquake to hit the San Francisco Bay Area in 25 years sent scores of people to hospitals, ignited fires, damaged multiple historic buildings and knocked out power to tens of thousands on Sunday.
The 6.0-magnitude earthquake that struck just before 3:30 a.m. miles from Napa in California wine country was felt widely, breaking water mains, causing more than 100 gas leaks, leaving two adults and a child critically injured, damaging some of Napa Valley's famed wineries, and sending residents running out of their homes in the darkness.
Dazed residents too fearful of aftershocks to go back to bed wandered through Napa's historic downtown, where the quake had shorn a 10-foot chunk of bricks and concrete from the corner of an old county courthouse. Bolder-sized pieces of rubble littered the lawn and street in front of the building and the hole left behind allowed a view of the offices inside.
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BTW, it is 80 miles from any part of the American River!
American Canyon is a town very near Napa, they had damage there as well. In general terms, Napa is often considered part of the Bay Area because the Napa River empties into the Bay.
>> “My conservative neighbors in Placer Co and El Dorado Co
would be shocked to find Napa has been moved to the
Sierras.” <<
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It must have been more than a 6.0 quake to do that!
Beats me!
It’s closer to Angela Alioto territory than Pelousey.
It must have been more than a 6.0 quake to do that!
I didn't notice that...where's the wine!
Oh btw, all those broken shop windows in Napa...where's the looters? Don't tell me the government needs to import some?!
Yes, because there are damned few Blacks in Napa.
One of the reasons a sister and her husband moved to nearby Sonoma. Not that many in SF either, they all apparently moved to St. Louis. Some suggest the Bay Area is all lib, not so. Lots of conservatives in the wine area, my sister being one of them.
The AP doesn’t care about injuries and damages.
Their real headlines should be:
Strong California quake causes inequality and racism!
reporter.....bah!
LOL, spreading false information on the news forum now too??
Heh, always loved your arrogance...bah!
the wine aficionados will remember this quake. how many great bottles were lost I wonder..?
Prolly caused by fracking oboma!!!
President Barack Obama was briefed on the earthquake, the White House said.
“Not that many in SF either, they all apparently moved to St. Louis. Some suggest the Bay Area is all lib, not so. Lots of conservatives in the wine area, my sister being one of them.”
The thing that has happened in San Francisco is the “rebirth” of areas that were formerly predominantly Black. Places like Potrero Hill, which has marvelous views of the Bay south of the Bay Bridge, and Third Street below it used to be blighted areas of city owned housing, slaughter houses, ship yards, and other old line manufacturing, have been taken over by developers and rebuilt with high-end housing. The DotCommers have money and they prefer to live in the city and “commute” to the Peninsula. As a consequence, the Blacks who lived there formerly, have been displaced. About the only place you see Blacks is in the Tenderloin, and they are basically “street people.” We may not like SF’s politics, but it has little or none of the problems that plague LA and the big cities in the Midwest and East.
Napa has undergone a renaissance of its own. The Napa River has been restored, and new waterfront business has been built along with some really beautiful new bridges. The “money” in the Napa Valley is mainly conservative. We do have an ongoing minor problem with transients, but they are almost all youthful whites.
Had one guy recently that the cops picked up. He had set up his sleeping bag on our second floor access and had plugged in his electric blanket at one of the exterior outlets. Cops charged him with “theft of utilities.” The LEOs get creative in dealing with the issue.
>> “Oh btw, all those broken shop windows in Napa...where’s the looters? Don’t tell me the government needs to import some?” <<
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No problem, there’s an adequate supply of looters in Vallejo, just a few miles to the south.
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Sonoma is mafia central.
Make that:
HupA moronic population
I think the Napa area is considered part of the greater San Francisco Bay Area.
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