the freight train of the quake was over she could hear other noises from above. The greater Seattle area had just experienced a 9.45 earthquake, an aftershock from hell’s imagination inside Yellowstone National Park which had witnessed an 11.2 earthquake.
The Seismology lab was in shambles.
The lights went out.
Karen screamed again.
Above her she could hear the rumbles resuming in the distance, like the thunder from an advancing storm. A nearby building was collapsing. Was it hers?
West Yellowstone Village, Montana
7:20 MST
“Good morning visitors! Time to get up and rock and roll! Get up out of that warm, comfy bed for a day of play in the snow. It’s a great day! Clear skies, the sun is just coming up over the horizon. Let’s see; what does our trusty thermometer have to say? Ten below. Yes, indeed; going to get all the way up to minus 2 by late in the afternoon,” chirped morning DJ Billy “Little Deuce” Richards. “This is KWYS-AM West Yellowstone Montana, broadcasting at 920 kHz, your 24-hour station with all the news, weather, sports and Yellowstone Park comin’s and goin’s. Get ready sleepyheads! Get up and dance your socks off!” Billy’s voice dropped to a bass. “It’s Alright by Adam Faith and the Roulettes!”
Although a hit in its own right in 1964, the song was made famous in the movie Good Morning, Vietnam with Robin Williams boogying around the radio studio, flipping 45 records and generally acting like Robin Williams. It didn’t matter that the song consisted of repeating “It’s alright, it’s alright” 72 times to a relentlessly driving beat.
Well, if you want me
It’s alright
It’s alright, it’s alright
Well, if you want me
It’s alright
It’s alright, it’s alright
Well, if you want me
It’s alright (it’s alright)
I t’s alright (it’s alright)
It’s alright (it’s alright)
But, it wasn’t alright (it’s alright). On the 23 rd It’s alright (it’s alright) the strongest earthquake ever recorded since man crawled out of the ooze began to violently shake the village of West Yellowstone, Montana.
The second floor of KWYS-AM 920 Voice of Yellowstone National Park and West Yellowstone with all the Motels, Hotels and Places to Stay, Eat and Hootnanny fell directly onto the first floor of WKYS-AM 920, etc. killing young Billy “Little Deuce” Richards as he took the first sip from his double vanilla latte mocha from the Starbucks down the street. He never knew what hit him.
Further down the street the wooden exterior of the IMAX Theater “Yellowstone Bears and Beavers!” took a hit as exterior wall boards first popped in synch, then the roof fell and the IMAX went boom. Wendy’s fell into the Motel 8; the Hampton Inn exploded; and they all died; McDonalds, Holiday Inn, Ramada Inn, Comfort Inn—in fact, ALL of the Inns. All fell into rubble within twenty seconds, anyone inside was dead.
And if it wasn’t enough that everything was totally demolished and everyone was dead, the earth had the audacity to violently shake for another four minutes, just to make sure all of the bricks were sifted.
South of Beartooth Pass, Wyoming-Montana border
7:20 MST
“Yes! Jesus, yes! Oh--oh, please, yes! God—“
Penny Anderson felt the earth move beneath her slim, naked body. The vibration of their sex hit her at the exact moment of the best orgasm of her life. The warmth of their oversized sleeping bag and passion of their youth combined for Feast of the Yeast.
“Yes! God damn it, yes!” she shouted, her pelvis moving at 120 beats a minute to his strokes. “Don’t stop!” Her long fingers had a hard buttock in each hand.
Jimmy James Johnson, pile drivin’ man. Oh, the front porch was wide open. So was the back porch if he wanted it. “Yes…yes…go…more! Don’t stop!” Penny screamed as her partner and the earth moved