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Quake Memories of:

Wendy Ellison Rosenkilde
Livermore

I was in Mountain View that morning taking a voice lesson. I sang a very high C and just then my stand fell over. I thought my voice caused the stand to fall!

Then the teacher and I looked at each other and said, Wow! That was a big one! And we ran out to the music school office where the secretaries were still shaken and dialing on the radio.

That night, at home in Pleasanton, we had an aftershock, and I grabbed a plate of spaghetti as if fell off the kitchen table.

Thinking it would be calmer, I decided to drive north to Fort Bragg, . I was out on the dock at the Wharf Restaurant, and another earthquake shook the dock and everyone ran indoors! (Which was funny, because we usually run outdoors!)

Don't you love life in California?

Wendy Ellison Rosenkilde
Livermore

 

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