Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 19:16:09 +0100 Reply-To: Highlander TV show stories Sender: Highlander TV show stories From: John Markor Subject: Immortal Unawares 4 of 4 so far.... --========================_11459090==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Here is Part Four....There is more, I still have to convert it and do some more polishing..... --========================_11459090==_ Content-Type: text/plain; name="Immortal_Unawares_-_Part_4"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Immortal_Unawares_-_Part_4" Over the public address system the flight attendant reminded the passengers to set their watches to Central European time before they disembarked. Joe twisted the dial on his watch and gathered his carry-on luggage. His section was the first off the jetliner. He moved slowly down the ramp, turning down assistance from a solicitous gate attendant. Across from his gate a flight bound for Los Angeles was boarding. The passengers were chatting nervously amongst themselves, many more were crying. A Red Cross representative consoled a distraught young woman. Joe asked the ticket agent what was causing so much distress for the travelers. "Oh didn't you hear?" he replied in accented English, "there was an earthquake in California." Joe felt his stomach tighten into a painful knot, "Oh God! Where?" "Someplace called Bakersfield and Te....ha....I can't pronounce it." Joe gasped. "Tehachapi! My God! No!" Joe felt ill and wobbled to a seat. He envisioned Liz all alone in her cabin, shaken, maybe worse....and now here he was in Paris with so much more going on in his life than he wanted. And all he wanted to do was fly back to the States and find Liz and steal her away from the quake zone. The Red Cross aid offered him some water and asked if he could help. Joe gave him information about Liz, where she was living and her phone number. Joe also gave him the name and number of his hotel. The aid worker called a cab for Joe. Joe checked into his room and as he promised he tried to call Liz. A static line and recorded message greeted him. "Due to the recent earthquake in southern California telephone communication lines are temporarily out of service. Please try your call at a later time." Joe's heart sank. Later that night Joe watched with increasing dread and horror as a badly shaken CNN reporterAnn McDermott stood amidst a pile of rubble that used to be a downtown department store. Bakersfield was severely hit, she told her audience, all of downtown in rubble. An old clock tower knocked down in a 1952 quake survived this one. A dam high in the Tehachapi Mountains was leaking and threatening the low lying areas of Bakersfield. The small mountain town of Tehachapi fared better inspite of it's being closer to the epicenter and fault line. McDermott introduced Lucy Jones of Caltech to explain the geological details of the four forty-five AM tembolor. Ms Jones, weary and tired explained how preliminary seismographic readings rated this quake a 7.0 on the Richter scale and the epicenter was somewhere between Bakersfield and Tehachapi on a fault line that had caused two quakes in the summer of 1952. A graphic showed a map of the Tehachapi Mountains and the Southern San Joaquin Valley . A thick black line with a bull's eye in the middle of it cut across the map. Superimposed above the line read the words: WHITE WOLF FAULT. --========================_11459090==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" *************************************************** * John and/or Lydia - Can there be only one? * * sundari@halcyon.com * *************************************************** --========================_11459090==_-- =========================================================================