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I was driving from 29 Palms to Yucca Valley, trying to get to the Moyles Health Care Nursing home where I worked. I was a half-mile past Copper Mountain College going 65 MPH when it hit. At first I thought the front end of my car was coming apart, then I saw the explosions of transformers up and down Hwy 62. As I pulled the car over to the side of the road, trying to manage the vehicle was getting worse and I thought the car was going to crash. Once I stopped and got out, I could see the outline of smoke rising from Yucca Valley. The car rocked violently as the waves from the quake rolled through and telephone poles swayed back and forth. The dry lake bed appeared to be a ocean wave of sand and dust.

Once I got to Yucca Valley I stopped to take a picture of the smoke rising from the trailer court near the Morongo Grade. I was next to the bowling alley trying to get a good angle and just as I walked past it, the whole side wall of the alley had fell, nearly hitting me. I snapped the picture I wanted and headed on in to work.

Paul