When An Earthquake Strikes

It never leaves or goes away when one strikes of any significant magnitude. My first experience was in the early fifties in Oakland California in grade school it hit the building rumbled and shook it will never go away to this day I remember even though it was so long ago half a century and more years ago fifth grade 1958 or there abouts when the class room was vibrating as though a huge machine beneath the floor was grabbing the whole school with a powerful vibration. It was not normal. Later that same day at night the after shocks rocked my crib yes I was too big to be in a crib but I made use of it until I could no longer fit. It was a very eerie feeling a disturbing one that was wild and potentially relentless if God wanted it to go loose and crush everything around me I knew the restraint God practiced God was only teasing but I knew the power with which the house could be flatten in a heart beat at that time. The fear was very disturbing. Nightmares as a child was always disturbing and then came a reality when the earthquake came to rumble and shake and move us around like little rag dolls. Another thirty years would roll around before a bigger one would hit the Loma Prieta but then I was much older and less fearful as an adult. But I was worried beyond a doubt.