My Knightlife

I have experienced a blizzard, hurricane, tornado, and forest fires….now an earthquake. Jonnie, Jeanie, Bryana, and I were walking towards Toon Town when the Small World building under construction began shaking. The ground was moving and I felt a loss in balance as the lamp posts were uplifting…

I really didn’t know what was going on at first…everyone around was acting like nothing was wrong until it really began to shake. When it had come to a silence, Disney personnel came running through the park announcing “keep moving, everything is okay”. Sometimes they take the ALWAYS HAPPY a little to far, especially if there is a natural disaster going on.

 

We tried to call out on our cell phone to see if everyone else was okay- “all circuits are busy”. I tried text messaging my best friend SA, who was in LA, – “sending message” covered my screen until I eventually canceled it. It was a 5.8 earthquake and we were told it was not the end. People were stuck on rides. All Bryana kept saying, “I wish I was in Space Mountain when they put the lights on.”

Eventually Bryana was able to get ahold of her parents who live in LA and they were fine. It hit 20 miles southeast of LA, which was in the are we were. News reports said that it was going to hit again, but there was no telling when. All the rides shut down for 2 hours while they tested everything and made sure nothing was destructed….and the mad dash for lunch began!

Filed under: California on July 30th, 2008