[jedberg]

Same. And I was in a bunk bed. :(

Almost killed my friend, who just happened to move his bed away from the bookshelf the day before. The bookshelf smashed to the ground right where his bed had been.

We also had to dig my grandparents out of their house with shovels.

[Stratoscope]

Please tell me you dug them out alive?

[jedberg]

Yes. :) After the initial shock, they barricaded themselves into the storage room behind the garage, because there was a pull out couch and a phone in there. But we couldn't call them because another phone in the house had been shaken off the hook. So we drove down there as quickly as we could and when we got there everything inside was rubble, the chimney was just a pile of bricks, etc. (although the house itself was still standing).

We got shovels and started digging, calling out their names. Finally got the back and found them sleeping in the pull out sofa! We packed some of their stuff and took them back to our house since we had minimal damage (despite being thrown from bed) and then went back later to survey the damage.

At that point people in the larger multi-family buildings had all evacuated and set up tents in the median strip on the main street (Ventura Blvd). Many of those buildings were condemned.