This was MY view today during a massive CA practice Earthquake preparedness drill.
1st grade looks a bit different from the ground floor.
My kids did a great job.
We practiced all over CA at 10AM.
The Shakeout had good state support.

You can register and read more right here. CA Shakeout pages!

Hey in a nutshell remember:

DROP to the ground (before the earthquake drops you!),
Take COVER by getting under a sturdy desk or table, and
HOLD ON to it until the shaking stops.

Read more here.

Well here they are.....

We had to kind of talk about how we are trying to do the best we can to find a way to get covered, just in case:

I see looking at this picture a broken chair, I need to get that replaced!

It gets to me a little bit, my kids grown up in a wink but it might anyway seeing little ones like this.
When my baby was born, just a few weeks later the Loma Prieta quake hit. I lived about 20 miles from the epicenter. We were watching the World series begin to start. A bookcase narrowly missed my baby due to my scream and a husbands fast reflexes. I never set Sly down again. She was held. When I tried we had aftershocks in the months later. The ground was jelly.
I tried to go under a table but it turned into a moving and quite out of control object.
When I sat outside after the main action the ground was jello. A neighbor helped a lot as he kind of talked me through it. No power for a week. It pays to have those boxes of water, supplies, small grill, way to generate power, all the things we did not have. Especially the water.

Being prepared is important. Had I had a supply of antibiotics I'd have had a way to treat the mastitis I got for lack of showers. But...that was long ago. It brought back memories. I didn't do well in that time. New mom, hard. And we were NOT PREPARED. I'd only been in CA a short while. What di a kid from West Virginia know of earthquakes?

Today the kids had the opportunity free of emergency to think it through, see the "plan' and tell us all about home plans. I hope to send tomorrow a nice letter on supplies and things to "keep in mind."

Here's the US Geologic Survey on this drill. wow we were part of the largest drill like this in US history.

After the All Clear we went right to the yard to take roll and to listen to directions.

Here is CNN on our drill.

A link to Alaska pages on preparing starting with this set of Do's and Don'ts in helping children with earthquakes. Very good.

I'm so impressed with this I'm pasting it here: