I remember that one well also. I was deeply emersed with Red Cross volunteering at the time and went to the high school (Bell I think) to be the Disaster Shelter Manager. I did that for two days. I recall the weather at night was raining. The folks in the shelter would not come into the gymnasium to be dry with cots and food for fear of aftershocks. After we unpacked all the cots and blankets and set them all up in the gym, the empty boxes seemed to disappear. Ah, we found them. They were all set up on the football field with the plastic bags from the blankets packaging used as protection to the cardboard from the rain. Inside were all our evacuees huddled in their boxes. You've heard of "tent city"? Well, this was like "box city". We all made it through the wet night and my relief arrived. I'm not sure what occured after that night but everyone was at least safe on the 50-yard line. Ed
--- On Fri, 10/1/10, newnethboy <kef413@gmail.com> wrote:
From: newnethboy <kef413@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [californiadisasters] Anniversary Reminder
To: californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, October 1, 2010, 9:14 AM
I well remember the Whittier earthquake! I was returning home from a
breakfast gathering when it hit; I felt the car sway as in a gust of wind,
but no trees were blowing. I started to see people out in front of their
houses. I got home and found my wife and three girls (8 years to 2 years)
clustered in a doorway (we didn't know then...).
As aftershocks came, we tried to say cool--I don't mean so much calm as not
hot, because the temperature went to 104F (memory fails, but that was either
the day of the quake or the day of the aftershock). The Denver papers,
according to my brother-in-law there, headlined "L.A.: SHAKE AND BAKE".
On Sunday, Oct. 4, the aftershock caused a parapet stone to fall off the
church where I was the caretaker, and the building was red-tagged at about
8:00 am, causing us to really scramble to relocate the three churches which
met there starting at 9:00.
At the time, we were providing spelling words for our second-grader, and the
following week, her words were earthquake related, e.g. seismology, temblor,
Richter. The student who usually administered our daughter's test (the only
other student in the class who could read the words we gave her) couldn't
cope with any reminders of the quake, and the teacher had to give the tests
on that category of words.
HOWEVER: Just as my family in the Northeast were starting to think--again,
"How do you live with the earthquakes?", THEY were hit with a blizzard:
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