Street Beat: 9/1/05

Shannon Michaels

Joseph

I was in earthquakes when I was little in Eureka (Calif.), but I don’t remember them.

Clarice Johnson

Enterprise

I grew up in Baker and spent 14 years in Africa as a missionary, and I’ve never been in a natural disaster. There were some pretty good snow storms in Baker, but that was it.

Erik DeSpain

Enterprise

The Northridge earthquake in 1994. It was about 5:30 a.m. and the house started shaking. I ran out, and then ran back in… My deer heads were falling off the wall. There was quite a bit of damage.

Sheryl Roberts

Enterprise

Probably the Columbus Day storm when I was in high school. My dad worked for the power company, and we didn’t see him for two weeks. We had no electricity and we had to moved into the basement where there was a wood stove.

Bob Jackson

Joseph

I’ve been in some big forest fires. I remember one that was 23,000 acres in 1950 in New Mexico. It started on the plains of St. Magdalena and spread into the Gila National Forest. … At one point we were surrounded by a big ring of fire. It was kind of eerie.

Lyn Wagner

Enterprise

There was a big thunder and lightning storm, with a lot of rain, when I was 17 years old, alone at our ranch out of Flora. It was very dark, and it started dropping baseball-sized hail. The lightning lit up the sky. I was scared.