At exactly 10 a.m. tomorrow, November 13th, about 5 million people in Southern California will drop to the ground, take cover under a sturdy piece of furniture and hold on at the same time. Radio stations and school p.a. systems will play a sound track of rumbling and crashing, along with a man's voice declaring, "If this were the magnitude 7.8 earthquake we're practicing for today, you would be experiencing sudden and intense back-and-forth motions of up to 6 ft. per second. The floor or the ground would jerk sideways out from under you. Look around and imagine." And then, when we get the "All-Clear" bell, we quickly and orderly evacuate outside, and hope there are no gigantic cracks in the earth to speak of.
Join in the fun if you wish. 10am. It's always a good time getting 1,000 middle-schoolers to cooperate with such a task. If you don't want to join in the fun physically, you can just think of us crazy Californians and our San Andreas Fault disaster drill!
5 Glorious Years!
8 months ago
2 comments:
I remember in elementary school we had an all day earthquake drill, it was crazy! We had to pretend people had broken bones and figure out how to get them out of the room and that some people were trapped so we had to leave them there. And then we went out on the field after and ate dehydrated food, weird! In San Bernardino we had a few practice lock down drills, those are fun too :)
Geeeez....I'm older than your mom and I CAN REMEMBER scrambing to get under my desk in elementary school up in northern California!
Nice to know things haven't changed!!
Stalker Mom xoxoxoxo
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