“I became homeless in about 20 seconds,” said Kevin Mcniece, 37, a sawmill machinist in Rio Dell.
As aftershocks rumbled and crews worked across Humboldt County on Wednesday afternoon to restore water and power knocked out by the powerful earthquake that struck earlier this week, Kevin Mcniece rushed to his former home, hoping to beat a code enforcement team so he could grab some of his possessions before access was blocked.
The house had fallen off its stilts and cracked into three separate pieces. A fire had broken out in the kitchen; water started spewing. He and his cat, Gamora, had scrambled to safety. But now what?, leaving two dead and at least 17 injured, it was clear that Mcniece’s community of Rio Dell, a lumber town built upon the cliffs of the Eel River, had taken the brunt of the damage.It was a blow this community of 3,400 could scarcely afford.
Ireland, his mother and her pet pit bull, Sarah, have been living out of her 2007 Toyota Camry since the quake jolted them awake in the early dark hours of Tuesday. They later learned their Rio Dell house had also been tagged as unsafe. The quake struck at 2:34 a.m., its epicenter just offshore. It ruptured along a fault onshore and traveled northeast up through the old timber towns south of the county seat of Eureka, a place of dense forests, cool mists and battered local economies. It is a place so remote from the rest of California that many residents jokingly describe themselves as living on an island.
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