Esther's+Story


 * Crack! Shake! I'm suddenly awake at 9:00 in the morning, and I feel a strong vibration shaking the house. **
 * All of a sudden, the power is out. I scream when a tree knocks into the farm. My sister, mom, and dad are **
 * yelling for me to come downstairs. I run, almost falling flat on my face, while racing down. I found myself **
 * whisked away outdoors to the fields, with my family. My dad, screaming that he knew we would need an **
 * emergency kit one day, was excited, if not delighted, that we were in the middle of an earthquake. Me, my[[image:San_Andreas.gif align="right"]] **
 * mom, and my sister were shivering in fear as we saw the farm shake 5 feet to the sides. I thought, "We at **
 * least didn't have any animals in there." All of a sudden, it stopped. No more shaking, trembling, or moving **
 * of anything. The silence was deafening. My dad was screaming that we would need to wait at least a day **
 * before we go back in to the farm. My sister shrieked, and she was pointing in horror at the house. As we **
 * turned, we saw the house was sinking into the ground! It's liquefaction! I thought that if that was my house, **
 * then I would of lost many of my possessions. My dad (who is always ready for this kind of situation), took **
 * out the battery-powered radio and tuned it on to Earthquake Watch. "The measurements show that this has **
 * been a 9.8 magnitude earthquake and the epicenter was located in San Fransisco, California. The focus was at a **
 * mere 57 m under the surface and there have been several reports of aftershocks. The tension broke on the **
 * San Andres Fault and this devastated all of the city. Seismographs in Massachusetts picked up massive **
 * amounts of vibrations and we are warning everyone to hold off trips to California. Wait...wait...wait... another **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 90%;">earthquake in the Pacific Ocean...creating a tsunami... MUST EVACUATE CALIFORNIA AND JAPAN!!!" **

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 90%;">I turned off the radio, not wanting to hear any more bad news. We were silent for a few minutes, until suddenly, **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 90%;">we realized that our relatives might not be safe! For the next hour and a half, my mom took the time to call **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 90%;">every single one of of them and finally, she hung up her phone for the last time. I said," What do we do know?" **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 90%;">My dad answered excitedly," We set up a tent and a our emergency stuff of course!" I decided to watch the rest **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 90%;">of my family work while I rested my overworked heart. When they were done, I saw that the sun was going down. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 90%;">I had no idea that tents are so comfy after you went through an earthquake experience! After supper, and before **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 90%;">I thought of the day I just experienced, I fell fast asleep... **