Gayle Rowland's story

On March 27 I was preparing supper while supervising the preparations for the Good Friday service at the U.P. Church. The dishes in the cupboard above the stove came cascading down, ruining my meal and breaking a casserole. I yelled at the four boys to get out. The dogs had wisely disappeared into the woods before the first tremor. I was working as relief Medical Tech at Valley Hospital and immediately got a call (no power but we had phones.) The regular Tech was on the other side of the Pioneer Peak landslide and I was needed to help with an emergency walk-in blood bank. We drew several units of blood from generous donors with the idea that Anchorage would need them.

Reprinted from the March 2014 issue of the Palmer Historical Society Newsletter.