The Strongest Earthquake
July 19th, 2007
He and she had only been married for a few years when the Air Force sent him off to Shemya, Alaska, while she and their two children stayed home in California. (Shemya is an island in the Bering Sea, about 200 miles off Russia, which has absolutely nothing but an Air Force base, foxes, and tons of snow.)
She was shaken awake on the morning of February 1, 1975. Not by one of her kids, but by the room itself. The bed was jumping up and down and actually rolling back and forth on the tiled floor, and the Venetian blinds were violently shaking against the window. Being a native Californian, she knew that this was an earthquake. A big one. A very big one. Read the rest of this entry »
The Strongest Earthquake
July 19th, 2007
He and she had only been married for a few years when the Air Force sent him off to Shemya, Alaska, while she and their two children stayed home in California. (Shemya is an island in the Bering Sea, about 200 miles off Russia, which has absolutely nothing but an Air Force base, foxes, and tons of snow.)
She was shaken awake on the morning of February 1, 1975. Not by one of her kids, but by the room itself. The bed was jumping up and down and actually rolling back and forth on the tiled floor, and the Venetian blinds were violently shaking against the window. Being a native Californian, she knew that this was an earthquake. A big one. A very big one. Read the rest of this entry »
