By Danna Shirley
#1 ~ WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU LOSE POWER…
and
you’re stranded in a department store?
The lights go out and the register is silent…
The only glow comes through the front windows…
The doors won’t open…
You stand gazing outside with your hands on the glass…
Children begin to whine and cry…
Parents try to calm them and soothe their fears…
#2 ~ WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU LOSE POWER…
and
you have no control over your circumstances?
The ground shakes…and swells upward…then plunges
downward…
Everything is thrown off of shelves and into the
aisles…
It is a holiday…Good Friday…March 27, 1964…
and at 5:36 p.m. in Prince William Sound, Anchorage, Alaska…
the largest earthquake in United States history has registered
9.2.
The duration of the rupture lasts approximately 4
minutes (240 seconds).
The end result was the movement of the Pacific plate
under the North American plate by an average of nine
meters or 29.5 feet.
My friend, Dorothy Russ, stood inside that department store
and looked out the window as the world rocked and
rolled before her eyes.
There was no escape for her…inside or outside!
Tsunami also hit California and Oregon
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