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Show Utah's 'big one' can't be far away p.g. blab si x--V . holes for our fence, they sheared off three bolts on the digger because of the big rocks. I'm glad to know that there is one good thing to come out of us having solid rock under our grass. It did little to ease the tension to hear that the Salt Lake, and Brigham City areas are the ones where the time is really ripe to have a biggie. But life must go on. You cannot sit around and worry about what catastrophe is going to happen next. I do highly recommend a good 72 hour kit, a full tank of gas at all times, wood for the fireplace, flashlights flash-lights and lots of batteries. We are lucky here. We do not have tornados nor hurricanes and our winters aren't really all that bad, either. We do not have ice storms nor humidity that causes you to freeze or fry. But we do sit along an important impor-tant fault line. If and when this great earthquake comes, I hope that the people here are as helpful to each other as those in California have been. You did not hear of the looting that there was after the big Hugo Hurricane and the outpouring of generosity in money and provisions for relief has been wonderful. People who were able helped man the fire hoses, helped pull people from the rubble, helped the injured, and kept traffic moving. Someone said that people were more polite, friendlier, kinder and calmer than usual. That is great. If it happens to us I hope we will all be just as good as those Califor-nians Califor-nians were. And here's to the Giants in the . World Series! By MARCELLA WALKER I was on my way home from work last Tuesday, just after 6 p.m., when the World Series broadcasters broadcast-ers broke into the pre-taped pre-game pre-game report to say that they had just had an earthquake in San Francisco. The announcers said that although al-though it had scared them to death and some had headed for the exits in the pressbox, it appeared that everyone was alright. Of course, at that time they did not know about all the destruction which had taken place. A former Pleasant Grove resident resi-dent who works as a director for KBYU-TV was with the KBYU truck at Candlestick Park because they had been asked to help the network with the broadcast. He told his parents that as the KBYU truck rocked on its rubber tires, he could see the stands in Candlestick Park really moving. For hours that evening we watched the reports come in as the television networks quickly began coverage of the situation in the damaged city. I tried to think of all the people I knew who lived near the quake area and hoped they were alright. After watching news reports on the earthquake for several days, I found I was beginning to think about the Wasatch Fault which is very visible in Pleasant Grove up by Kiwanis Park at the top of 200 South. For the first time, I began to think what it would be like to have to use our 72 hour kit. Maybe we had better add a few more things to it, just to be on the safe side. When that fireman or policeman police-man in San Francisco shouted out to people to go home and be prepared pre-pared for 72 hours without power, etc., it really struck home. As we sat in the BYU stadium for the football game on Saturday afternoon, I worried more than usual about the stands falling down. I usually always get a little tense whf-n the fans stamp their feet in the stands to cause a little noise when they want the team to hold the line. This time I was a lot more tense. I wondered if other people were thinking the same thing. One of the announcers at the World Series had said that at first it was kind of like the shaking of the stands when fans stamp their feet. As if the residents of Utah who live along the Wasatch front weren't were-n't thinking about it already, the experts began telling us how soon we can expect a killer earthquake here. We already knew that without them reiterating it on every newscast news-cast for the past week. Some of the experts said that the amount of dam age to your home will dependon what kind of ground it sits on. Fortunately, under our house there is pure rock. There is no sand and there is no clay. It is solid rock. We know because whenever we attempt to dig we find that it is impossible. Not only that, but the soil which we once did have on our upper terrace in the back yard has filtered fil-tered down through the rocks and now there is only rock under the grass. You could let the water run for days and it would never stay wet up there. When they werediggingthe post |