5+ Reichter Earthquake Hits California

Blythely traveling I-40 in Tennessee, early in the afternoon, I got a phone call from our daughter who lives around Los Angeles.

She warned me telephone service may be down most of the day and when we heard the news of the earthquake it may be too late to call and check on her. She was letting me know all was well in her world, except for the major fright she had suffered.

According to our daughter, the building she works from began shaking and rattling. Raised voices all around her were calling out the instruction to "Get under your desks". There was much screaming and wailing, according to our daughter, some of it coming from herself along with the clatter of desk chairs being pushed and bumped away from the workers as they crammed themselves under the desks.

Our daughter said she got as far under her desk as she could and waited the shaking out with intense fright. This was her first major earthquake in all five years she has lived there.

According to our daughter, the building she works in is built on rollers to move with the quakes thus ensuring minimum to no structural damage. Try telling a frightened person that the worst is over when that person is certain the ceiling is going to drop in the next few minutes.

She sounded rattled and apprehensive. The doubt in her voice as she told me things were okay was heart wrenching to me. Poor thing and I can't do anything to help her get through this. She's on her own. I have faith in her resilience. This will turn out to be a topic of conversation and one upmanship for the next couple days.

Way to go girl, you survived it and lived to tell about it.


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