....and no, the freeway did not fall in Northridge. I was here for the quake. A freeway overpass collapsed on the 5/14 interchange adjacent to the Santa Clarita area. A cop rode his motorcycle clear off the edge and plummeted to his death. Since the interchange has been named after him.

 

Hey I wasn't there for the quake but my wife was....thats what she told me...

 

he meant the 5 fwy northern up pass the grapevine

 

i prefer san diego to northridge, but if the money is good...

 

The Northridge quake was a trip. No freeways fell in Northridge, I think in Northridge proper, all the freeways are lower than ground level. There was a section of the 10 in Santa Monica and 118 between Balboa and Supulvida in Granada Hills that also collapsed at a street crossings for that quake.

But hey, California is California, we're all gonna get it at some point. That's really not the issue here.

Depending on where you are working and what kind of morning commute you like to have, there are lots of places to live in and around the valley. One of the coolest places I had was in Woodland Hills on Topanga Canyon just south of Ventura Blvd. It was at the start of the mountains and had lots of trees so we never needed air conditioning. Take a right out of the driveway and I could be up on Muhulland in no time. Take a left and the world was 3 minutes away.

Chris

 

the freeway fell during the "northride quake" but no in northridge