Here is the historical re-enactment of the day EQ Guy discussed the fact that there might be an earthquake headed for the Southern California Region while on break at a construction job at Arrowhead Water Plant in Ontario, California. Names of various actors who play in this and L.A. Apprentice Radio Play is unknown and can vary.
Piano Plays Us In, Then:
001--NARRATOR--001
It was early in the year 2000 when I was working on a construction job putting in conveyor when the next big Earthquake Alert took place one day at our picnic table out in Ontario, California.
Here is a historical re-enactment of exactly how that went the day I announced this in front of about a dozen guys at the Arrowhead Water Plant on Jarupa Avenue in the shadow of Mt. Baldy there.
JORGE
This bottled water plant is a great place to work
SOUTHERN DUDE
We’ll probably be putting in some new conveyor and maybe moving a couple machines around, FUN!
BOSS
Right after we’re done with our break, here, a couple guys can start unloading the semi, and a couple guys can start measuring up above. Whoever’s left can start busting open those crates.
JORGE
So, the job seems to be going pretty good, huh you guys!?
SOUTHERN DUDE
Check it out, it looks like they got some snow up there on Mt. Baldy!
AIDEN
Must not be practicing over at the California Speedway, because we’d be able to hear them since it’s only a couple blocks from here.
VIRGIL
Yep, right over here almost across the street from my house.
SOUTHERN DUDE
So, is anything going on this weekend, because it doesn’t sound like they’re racing.
EQ GUY
Everybody should be watching this weekend for a Major Earthquake of around 5.3 Richters to strike right around this area right here because I track earthquakes and we have one heading directly for us.
VIRGIL
We get a lot of earthquakes it wouldn’t surprise me.
AIDEN
So we should be watching for one, huh?
EQ GUY
Yes, and to make it official I’ll say late Sunday Night or Early Monday Morning.
JORGE
Well, we will be watching for that one, and Thank-You for letting us know about this, too!
BURKE
I’m located over in Filmore, so I probably won’t feel it unless it’s real big!!!
VIRGIL
Ok, then, we’re gonna watch for that, Les, there’s gonna be an earthquake this weekend, huh? We’ll see, then!
Then, CUT-TO:
002--NARRATOR--002
As Our Boy was getting ready for work on Monday Morning Fritz Coleman came over the TV with the following announcement:
FRITZ
There was a 5.3 Richters Earthquake that struck at 4:15am this morning with the epicenter over in Fontana. Residents reported their houses shaking but there were no reports of damage or any injuries and this is NBC-4-LA!!!!!
EQ GUY
Wow!!! I can’t wait to get to work to see if any of the guys felt that earthquake, I suppose I can at least just be the one who tells them. I wonder if any of them are going to know there was an earthquake.
Then, CUT-TO:
003--NARRATOR--003
We will now rejoin our Can Lines, Inc. Friends at the Arrowhead Water Plant on Jarupa Avenue when their NINE-O’CLOCK Break arrived that Monday Morning.
JORGE: Did you feel it Fernando, man it really shook! FERNANDO: No, what time
JORGE
So, what did all of you guys do this weekend?
SOUTHERN DUDE
We had the boats out on the river
AIDEN: Went to a movie on Saturday.
VIRGIL
Did you guys know there was an earthquake early this morning? Shook my whole entire house it must have been right over here.
EQ GUY
There was supposed to be one striking right around here over the weekend, you know.
AIDEN
Yes, you said something might happen.
VIRGIL
You told us all on Friday, right here at the picnic table, remember?
EQ GUY
I told you that I tracked that earthquake energy from the landfall of that big windstorm in the Gulf of Mexico?
VIRGIL
Yes, and you said we should be getting an earthquake, too!
JORGE
Who is this guy, anyways? Where did he say he came from?
AIDEN
Did you learn all that up in Wisconsin?
EQ GUY
It’s my Go Straight Theory! The seismic energy goes in a straight line from the landfall of the biggest windstorms. I’m thinking about using the name The EQ Guy or EQ Alert Guy.
AIDEN
Well, thanks for the information, The EQ Guy, you got that one exactly right!
VIRGIL
Yes, and it sure shook my house a good one, too.
EQ GUY
The epicenter was Fontana and it was a 5.3 because they said it on TV this morning.
NARRATOR
He knew that something remarkable had just happened that day. It was the very first time he had got one right as big as that one in front of so many of his friends like that.
Piano Plays Us Out.
THE END
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