“It's like trying to run across a trampoline.” Nathan Webb, a resident of Ridgecrest, California, said he struggled to reach the front door of his home when Friday’s earthquake hit.
RIDGECREST, Calif. — Three-year-old River Webb calls them"boom-booms."
The family spent Friday night outside in a tent that Webb and her husband, Nathan Webb, set up in the front yard as far away as possible from anything that could fall, and they ran an extension cord from their house to power electronics."She said, Let's wait for the boom-booms to go down'" before going back inside the house, Nathan Webb said of River."It's like trying to run across a trampoline," he said.
In nearby Trona, a community of some 1,600 northeast of Ridgecrest in the Searles Valley, the water supply was shut down by the earthquakes. On Saturday, workers loaded cases of bottled water at a distribution center at Trona High School, and the Red Cross was delivering water to neighborhoods. Back in Ridgecrest, Christopher Thomas, 51, was cleaning up broken tiles that had fallen from the facade of a business plaza his father-in-law owns and inspecting cracks in the building.
April Hamlin, 47, who was born and raised in Ridgecrest, was at the Red Cross shelter at the Kerr McGee Community Center on Saturday with her two daughters, Zarah, 15, Safiya, 14, and son Zak, 15, as well as their St. Bernard, Duchess, who was stretched out on a blanket and pillow.
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