(2024-11-18, 04:40 PM)jesportland Wrote: I was there then up at the top of Texas Springs CG with my RPod for nine nights. About one am it felt like something had smashed into the trailer, which not having a foundation per se really rock and rolled for about fifteen seconds? That morning about nine am while getting ready to walk up into the hills behind there everything started to shift and waver about. I thought, hey I didn't put any shrooms into my omlet, did I?, lol. It was the after shock. I believe the quake was centered somewhere close to Salt Creek from what I have read. During that walk up the hills there was a sherriff helicopter circling around very low in a circle. At first we thought they were looking for a possible missing person as they were then centering the search above the campgorund, going very low and kicking up a lot of dust. They had the door open and were scoping things out. They were following the powerlines that go to Cow Creek, looking for possible damage as it turns out.
I don't doubt they were checking due to the earthquake on this particular occasion, but all the powerlines are checked via helicopter periodically. I remember hiking across the salt/mud flat between Furnace creek and Dinosaur ridge when a helicopter made a very low pass along the powerlines out there.
It got me wondering how they would ever do a major repair if one was needed. How were those poles put up in the first place for that matter? The ground integrity isn't exactly vehicle friendly. Horses, a sled, and however many people it takes to raise a pole maybe?