Time Summary:
0:28 Interview starts

0:40 34-year resident of Santa Cruz

0:59 Description of work at Santa Cruz Public Library, and the evening shift on the day of the earthquake

2:30 Efforts to protect children from glass

2:50 Realization of length of the shaking, and getting under tables

3:15 Following protocol with many unaccompanied children

3:48 Decisions to stay in, or leave, the building

4:06 Leaving for the parking lot next door

4:33 Discussion of library workers as emergency workers

4:57 Description of scene outside

5:51 Explanation of ground underneath the library

6:10 Discussion of daughter at Santa Cruz High School

8:13 Walking to daughter's high school

9:11 Working as emergency worker for the following days

9:41 Damages to home, and camping outside

10:22 Sleeping in back yard

10:37 Children's sensitivity to tremors, experience of aftershocks

11:30 Engineers perform checks on buildings

12:01 Return to libraries, and comments on other library branches

13:46 The library as source of information

14:34 Work taking calls from residents, connecting with emergency services

16:22 Previous experience of 8.5 magnitude earthquake in Ecuador

16:40 Description of stay and housing in Quechua village

17:36 Differences between quakes in Ecuador and in Santa Cruz

18:10 Story of Ecuador earthquake

19:37 Comparison of noise, dust, fear

20:22 Understanding of significance at the time

21:10 Impact on life, disaster preparedness

22:20 Leaving to visit San Juan Islands to calm daughter

23:38 Impact on art: use of humor, and newfound interest in tectonics

25:35 Reflections on making art about the unexpected

26:20 Trust of community members in the library and public role

27:41 Responsibility for other people's children

28:57 Comparison between feelings in the following hours, and in the following days

29:16 Reflections on wildfires, sympathy with firefighters

29:55 Impact on SC community, community care, shared vulnerability

30:59 Changes after two years

31:09 Reflections on New York after 9/11, family's experience

33:09 Reflection on experience after 30 years

34:35 Reflections on the project, reminder of disaster preparedness

35:39 Thoughts on the Cooper House