Time Summary:
0:30 interview starts

0:44 Relationship to Santa Cruz

1:03 Beginning of description of their day on day of the earthquake in Corralitos

1:40 Events leading to acquiring earthquake insurance by chance two months prior

2:36 Describes her house being built on rocks

2:50 Description of the strength and noise of quake

3:13 Everything crashing and breaking inside house

3:25 Ran out of house and met neighbors in the field

3:42 Describing how neighbors’ house fell and split open

4:05 Looking for daughter who was at volleyball tournament during the quake

4:26 Describes her daughter's experience at Santa Cruz High School during earthquake

4:50 Reunites with children and husband back at damaged home

5:03 Assesses the food inside the house; describes being prepared because the area is prone to storms

5:16 Invites neighbors to camp together in the field; adequate clean water and resources despite power outages and downed phone lines

6:18 Tsunami warning heard on portable radio

6:29 Events of the day after the earthquake

7:13 Clean up and getting contractors to fix and stabilize the house

7:48 Cell phone call to mom; realizes Santa Cruz county was epicenter

8:00 Describes growing up with earthquake drills

8:25 Describes community care weeks after event; feeling like everything was going to be okay

9:15 Feeling collective community loss and emotions

9:44 Chris' church reaches out to Red Cross. Describes Red Cross response

10:03 Uptick in official support after Santa Cruz County was realized as epicenter of earthquake

10:20 Relief response in Watsonville

11:04 Negotiated with FEMA/Red Cross via her church to rebuild home of elderly woman taken in by Chris

11:41 Planning for future after recovery; got elderly woman back into her repaired home

12:15 Describes recovery and community response in Corralitos in weeks after the earthquake

13:00 Experience of taking photographs throughout county after the earthquake. Photographs now lost.

15:25 Downtown Santa Cruz before and after the earthquake

16:12 Photographing St. Patrick's church after the earthquake

16:25 More thoughts on community response in the aftermath

16:58 PTSD and aftershocks

18:01 Emergency preparedness for future disasters

20:51 Friendship with woman Chris housed after earthquake until the woman died three years later

21:19 Thoughts on reflecting on earthquake 30 years later

23:35 Corralitos earthquake cookbook and fundraiser

24:30 "Shift happens" bumper stickers

25:08 Importance of oral history

26:07 Conclusion of interview