Report your Quake Damage here.... :(

[Mr.Diggler]

I think everyone got off pretty easy considering it was a 6.8 quake. Good thing it wasn't on the Seattle Fault Line.


Since this is Anandtech, I'll just report computer damage.


One IDE Hard Drive gone.
One PlexWriter 12x4x32 SCSI gone.
One H+ card gone.
One 15" Trinitron gone.

The HDD and CDRW were both in use at the time. I can understand the head crashing on the HDD, but the CDRW surprised me. It was in the middle of burning a CDRW at the time and now it won't recognize most discs and if I try to burn anything, the whole computer freezes. I'm still fiddling with it though.

The H+ card was on a table and a picture fell on it.

The monitor was on the floor and something fell on it from a top shelf, cracking the case open.

Other than that, just a whole lot of broken cd cases.

House is about ten miles from the epicenter on the edge of Tacoma.

 

[fake]

Ouch I'm hoping the big SF quake doesn't come anytime soon .. i'm so unprepared.

 

[DannyLove]

sorry to hear that

 

[guyver01]

i think i got off pretty lucky... no major damage, no minor damage.. heck.. no damage at all!!



























did i mention i'm in NY, about 3,000 miles from the epicenter?

 

[NFS4]

I got fragged into little giblets with a rocket launcher

 

[coopa]

i had cds and cd cases all over the floor. maybe i shouldent keep them in a stack on the desk like that.....

 

[Mr.Diggler]

Heh...the CDs I had scattered on my desk survived their fall just fine. It was the ones I had put away properly that fell off their shelf and broke (just the cases).

Not sure what the moral of that story is. Never put anything away?

guyver01: Ha

 

[CyberTiger]

i just picked up a Quake Quad Damage!!!

 

[Mr.Diggler]

I just caught on to what you guys are talking about. I've never played Quake so it didn't register at first, but now I'm laughing asses.

 

[happykitten]

This guy made it out okay... this is a link from a live DJ broadcast during the Seattle earthquake. Notice how the speakers in the back are swinging around while the DJ keeps the mix going.

http://www.groovetech.com/earthquake.ram

 

[arod324]

Wow, none of my computer parts were even touched during the earthquake. The only thing that broke in our house, was a picture frame with glass, and a little glass vase.

 

[RossMAN]

Shattered nerves that's about it, most of the damage was in WA where as I live 4 hours away in Portland, Oregon.