Wells Earthquake

So I have been meaning to post about my trip to Wells for a week now but I have been busy and then I sprained my ankle and just haven't felt like it. I sprained my ankle Tuesday night and here it is Friday and I still can't put any weight on it. I've sprained my ankle before, it's been at least eight years but I don't remember it being such a pain. I must just be getting old, used to be that I would be walking on a sprained ankle in a day if that. Now here I am three days later still lay'n around. The good thing about this is now I don't have to go out of town next week for work.

Anyway, last week I was sent out to Wells, Nevada to see the damage. If the same earthquake happened in rural Utah, the damage would be very much the same. The town of Wells is a hole and it was very difficult to see what damage happened because of the earthquake and what was damaged before. From the outside it looked as though the single family homes faired well with the most damage done to the chimneys and very little to no noticeable outside damage.





The main drag through Wells


The old main drag, "old town" where the most damage occurred


You can see the two to three feet of snow in front of the building. Many of the damaged buildings were abandoned. The roofs that were collapsed did so before the earthquake.




Wells in a picture


The media was there in full force. As we were walking around looking at damage we ran into two media guys from a local station, one carrying a camera the other a microphone. They asked us where all the damage was? the guy with the microphone said "where are the damaged houses? It's driving us nuts!" We just laughed.

Cody & Gavin

Cody loves Gavin! Cody will follow Gavin all over and copy every thing he does. He tries to play with his other cousins, the older ones just end up teasing him, they either chase after him or run from him (he's the monster). The cousins his age just don't like to play with him. He's always talkin about Gavin and telling us stories, "bla bla bla bla Gavin bla bla".

Fisher Mansion

The city bought the Fisher Mansion last year in hopes to use some of the property to expand the Jordan River Parkway. Mayor Becker held an open house last week to give residents an opportunity to voice what they would like done with the property. We took advantage of this opportunity and visited the house and left our two cents.


View Larger Map



After walking through the house, running into neighbors and shaking hands with the Mayor we left our comments. Renovate the house back to it's original state and use it as, a reception center, museum, and/or a public art gallery.



They should turn the old carriage/garage house into a bike rental shop/refreshment store for those on the Jordan Parkway.


Cody enjoyed walking around the house. He's too slow going up the stairs.


For more pictures click on any of the above pictures.

More info on the Fisher Mansion.

Salt Lake City website

Trib Article

The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Google Fun

Google fun: Go to Google, type “find chuck norris”, click “I’m feeling lucky”.

This from a cool website North Temple

Win at waving!!

This is by far my favorite commercial and actually makes me want to buy the stuff if I could ever find. Anyone know were it's sold?