I was in choir practice at my church, Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, and we were getting started on the Christmas season songs. There was a Boy Scout meeting in the room directly above us and they were rough-and-tumbling around like boys do… and we had sent someone up there two times to tell them to knock it off and settle down because they were a big distraction for us. So the earthquake started to hit, and at first we were all giving dirty looks to the ceiling because we thought, at first, that it was the Boy Scouts again. Then the windows started rattling terribly, we started moving around in our chairs and the piano began to shuffle across the room. At that point, we were all pretty sure that it wasn’t the Boy Scouts but an actual earthquake. It only lasted 15 seconds, and after the ground was done shaking so violently, we calmly filed outside and continued our practice because, after all, we were all California kids and we had plenty of earthquake practice by then. That was a pretty interesting day and I thought it was very exciting.
By Bekki Sterling
