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    'Living here isn't easy to begin with.' How an earthquake brought people together

    by Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times Dec 24, 2022 5 minutes
    Kevin Mcniece stands outside his home in Rio Dell, California, that was“ red-tagged”— deemed no longer livable— because of damage from Tuesday’ s 6.4 magnitude earthquake.

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — I woke Tuesday morning to a phone call from my editor before 8 a.m. — earlier than usual — with the kind of assignment you can't plan for.

    There had been an earthquake. A big one. Could I drive five hours north from my home in Sacramento to Humboldt County? Now?

    I rushed to pack a bag, shoveling in phone and laptop chargers, a notebook and pens and business cards to prove I am who I say I am. I opened my map app and typed in Fortuna — a historic logging town, population 12,000 — that I hadn't been to in my eight years of living in California.

    I didn't have time to do much research but knew it was a magnitude 6.4 quake that led to two deaths, 11 injuries and the closure of a bridge over

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