Time to sweep up and wonder about the future

  Ron Prichard;Jonathan T. Lovitt ;Eric Barad

  06/29/1992

  USA Today

  FINAL

  Page 02A

  (Copyright 1992)

  Carl Schneider saw his Yucca Valley store turned to shambles Sunday for the

  second time in two months. As he swept up glass at the Star Market, Schneider

  wondered what the earthquakes would cost him this time.

  ``I borrowed $30,000 to get out of the last one, and now this is worse.''

  Sunday's quakes started a lot of people in southern California wondering - and

  sweeping. Around the region:

  - Stephen Hearn, president of the Landers Area Chamber of Commerce, tried to

  inspect the ruptured water tank the town relies on for water, but his car got stuck

  in a fissure in the road. Neighbors helped pull it out.

  He saw four or five structures burning, one of them a new home. Firefighters

  could only watch. ``It's hard to believe, isn't it?'' he said.

  - In Joshua Tree, the roof of Sam Askar's strip mall - Sam's Market, Sam's

  Liquor, Sam's Video - collapsed. ``The whole place is destroyed,'' said Askar, 32.

  - At CalTech in Pasadena, seismologist Kate Hutton was on camera when the

  second quake struck. The quake center was packed with reporters and video

  crews.

  Video cameras came off tripods as technicians tried to save them.

  Hutton was unfazed. She said it was ``unusual but not that unusual'' to have two

  major quakes in the same region in such a short period.

  - John and Pat Sawcett of Lancaster, England, sought refuge Sunday evening at

  an emergency shelter at Big Bear High School. ``We can't stay in our hotel. It's

  wrecked,'' said Pat Sawcett, 45. ``I told John I didn't want to come to California.

  I heard about all this earthquake business.''

  ``I thought it was rather interesting,'' said John Sawcett, 48.

  - In Pasadena, the quake came on an anniversary. Exactly one year before, an

  earthquake sent half-ton concrete blocks tumbling from 110-foot towers and

  through the roof of Westminster Presbyterian Church.

  The anniversary ``dawned on me as I rolled out of bed this morning during the

  quake,'' said church elder Ginger Loesch. ``It was a little eerie.''

  CUTLINE:`NOT UNUSUAL': Seismologist Kate Hutton, right, was on camera

  when second quake hit.

  PHOTO;b/w,Kevork Djansezian,AP