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mhm. Mhm. Okay. Mm hmm, mm hmm. Mhm. Okay. Really amazing. Big crash. Big crash. It sounded like somebody threw a bomb around here. This was the first one. That was the first one sir. Yes.

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Now later on you had another one. What happened then? Well, I was pouring a glass of beer for four people. Four people came in. I was making their drinks and this one was a glass of beer and boom. And I just, ironically I kept the cap

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open. I looked around and thought, oh no, not again. Next thing I know the rivers poured all over me and the, you know back here and everything else and I would just go, I was scared to death. Why aren't you in school today? Because I don't

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want to fall in on me. That's why santa rose on me. They closed that. No, it's open. But seeing when I'm afraid another one might hit and it might fall in on me. That's what I'm afraid of. There are many kids staying out of school. There's

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all the kids on our block are, well, as far as the damage that is done in santa rosa that is in dollars and cents wise, it's going to be hard to determine. But I can say this that the damage has been most serious. A lot of

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windows that are broken from our major stores and some of the non major stores, some of the buildings have large cracks in them. Oh, and from the results of it, we're closing some of our major streets and that's about it at this point. But to give

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you what you might say in dollars and cents, I can't give it. But I can say this as you walk up and down the street or drive and take a look at some of the stores. Why? In turn you'll I observed a lot of merchandise that's

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on the floor at this point there was some several calls in about looting and in turn I doubt it very much as far as any actual looting is that has taken place. I feel that we had excellent coverage to the degree of this here. That through

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our mutual aid program. Why the highway patrol through Captain Taylor came in immediately and they assisted us in the direction of traffic and also went on security as far as looting, our police reserve. And then in turn some of the other departments Rohnert Park came in

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and some of the other departments came in also for security and and for looting. Which gave our officers an opportunity to answer many of the residential calls of which. We have a lot of requests. We've had requests from outside the city from people from other cities

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to check on maybe a relative an aged person or what have you on this type of thing. Many of those calls. I want to say this and safety is sincerely that anything could happen. I mean to the degree that I feel that we were very very

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fortunate that we didn't have fire. We didn't have a lot of major streets damage and in turn in checking with the water department, the engineers department, why? In turn there was as far as water lines um very little of that. We received splendid cooperation from the

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pacific gas and electric company and their personnel had a liaison here too with their portable radios where communication was set that many mhm. Calls that did come to us involving as you any law enforcement agency gets why in turn these people came in and took quite

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a load off answering those type of calls or getting them the agency there, I was standing right here where I am right now in front of where we make our drinks and I leaning against the bar and I felt a little sudden shaky and the next

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thing I knew the blast came and I and I looked out front and I saw the fellow working out front and he was leaning over the bar and some man had knocked him down and jimmy out front. I thought he was hurt. So he was going

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over there about that time everything came off the shelves and I was sitting, saw everything coming down and I said oh gosh I knew what it was and I looked up here and I thought everything's coming down on top of me but it didn't it didn't

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hurt a darn thing back here but up front and in the back and the liquor room and all that. It just do you have a customer here at the time of the first one here? Oh yeah, we had about four people in here and they were

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pretty pretty scared too. But we all had a drink afterwards. Yeah. Yeah. This is serious. Mm hmm, mm hmm. Mm hmm. Okay. Hi. Yeah. Mm hmm. Well it's having rather a difficult time. I've passed a

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couple of my bills through committee at least just this morning I got one through. It would require strong motion instrumentation, instruments, instruments in the larger buildings. This is being done to some extent in Los Angeles now. But this would extend the program and required in all

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high rise structures at least under state control past the finance committee and hopefully it will pass. But my bill to extend the field act provisions to hospitals was defeated and held in the finance committee this morning. And rather difficult decision for me to understand, you know,

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after the collapse of the two hospitals in Los Angeles as a result of the san Fernando quake, we now have the incredible yeah, request from a developer in san Leandro to build another hospital directly over the Hayward fault. My bill would have prevented this but for

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some reason or other committee didn't see its merits. And it was held in committee. So I am somewhat frustrated, somewhat disappointed at this point. Why is it so difficult to get earthquake legislation passed. The americans are an optimistic people. We generally look for eternal sunshine and

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think that it just won't happen to me, even though we know That another great quake is bound to happen. We are told over and over again by the most eminent scientists that another quake similar to the 196 quake in San Francisco will occur there again because

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these pressures are building up over the fault. And yet we prefer to take the risk. We continue to build these high rise buildings there directly over this known fault in spite of the overwhelming evidence as to the loss of life and injury, the property damage that

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would occur or will occur when this quake happens. But we just say, well, maybe it won't happen in my lifetime. I'll get by without this and we won't worry about the NFL, Well, aren't legislators really supposed to be more practical men than that? Well, indeed they

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are. And I suppose what it really boils down to, well, what some of our experts refer to as acceptable risk. You know, how much money are we willing to spend for how much safety