Dtobember 12,1993
The big quake rattles Guilford
Joe Wallace
Features Editor
At about 10:30 on the moming
of Monday January 17th, Jonah
Krakow was awakened by a phone
call. On the other end of the phone
was a friend of his in Chicago.
The caller informed Jonah, a
first-year student at Guilford Col
lege, that there had been an earth
quake in California earlier that
moming, but gave no other details.
This news, however, didn't
bother Jonah. He had grown up in
southern California and he had ex
perienced his share of earthquakes,
minor rumbles that served more as
a nuisance than a threat. So Jonah
went back to sleep.
He re-awoke about half an hour
later, showered, and proceeded to
the first-floor lounge of Binford
Hall to see if anyone had heard
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Krakow
anything about the quake. Once
there, he discovered that not only
was the earthquake more severe
than he imagined (it registered 6.6
on the Richter Scale), but the epi
center of the quake was in
Northridge, about 10 to 15 minutes
north of his home in North Holly
wood.
Jonah hurried to his room to call
jfeatures
home, but, surprise to no one, he
couldn't get through. The tele
phone lines were down, as is com
mon whenever there is an earth
quake.
So the day passed with Jonah
watching the bizarre goings-on in
California: the collapsed Santa
Monica Freeway, the seemingly
always jammed roadway that he
had traveled quite often, the
flooded set of TV's General Hos
pital, where he had once visited,
and the three-story (now two
story) apartment complex that re
sembled the place where his grand
parents reside.
Tuesday came and Jonah still
couldn't get through to his family.
His friend at school in Chicago had
said she had finally reached her
parents early that morning, but
there was no sign of Jonah's
mother and 16 year-old brother.
Now he began to worry. While
Photo by Krista Mitschele
everyone else at Guilford was try
ing to stay warm during the Triad's
blistering cold spell, Jonah was
trying to stay cool during the pa
rade of busy signals he kept receiv
ing when he'd try to call home.
With the passing of each after
shock, Jonah could feel himself be
coming more tense and more up
set that the phone lines to his house
were still down.
Finally, at about 5:00 Wednes
day afternoon, Jonah got through
to his mother.
"It woke me up and I was walk
ing and plaster was falling on my
head," Jonah's mother said, "I
thought it was the big one."
His mother went on to explain
that while she had no water,
Jonah's grandparents did. So she
went there and got water and
brought it back to the house. The
phones came back up shortly be
fore Jonah reached her, almost 58
(guittorbian
hours after the earthquake oc
curred. "Which was far to long to
wait," Jonah exclaimed.
Jonah's house suffered little
damage. Cracks in the roof and
walls were just about the extent of
the structural damage to the house.
As far as everything else, "A few
bowls broke, as well as some plates
and sculptures that were on dis
play," Jonah said. "But there was
nothing really valuable lost."
So while many of the people in
southern California now have to
wait to be housed while the over
all damage is assessed, Jonah can
live a little easier. His family and
his home, while not perfect, are
fine and doing well.
"This was, by far, the closest it's
ever been to us in my lifetime,"
Jonah said. "They had that big one
in San Francisco a few years back,
but this was the first time that it
really 'hit home,' as they say."
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