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After making the trip in, this resident decides to clean out his shoes.

Residents do what they can to salvage what is not ruined and try to put sand bags around what is left.

Happy to go to their homes, the residents resemble an old fashioned baptism.

Police set up a barricade but angry residents wanted to see how their flooded homes were doing. They crashed the barricades after arguing with the city manager.

Alviso flooded due to heavy rains and flooding of the south San Francisco Bay. The town was evacuated and the National Guard was called in.

A family heads for high ground in the wake of heavy flooding that struck the south.

A Cahllis resident stands next to a piece of nearby mountain that rolled into his home and nearly crushed his wife who was looking out the back door when the quake struck.

At left, a young boy comforts his mother at the scene where two of his playmates were killed by falling debris. At right, a store owner grieves the loss that occurred across the street from her shop. 'They were so young.'

Viewers peek at an automobile covered with pieces of a bank building where the driver was making a deposit and narrowly escaped death. Mackey residents wander the devastated main street where every building suffered major damage.

The quake, measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale and the worst in the continental U.S. in 24 years, also rattled the nearby town of Mackey, Idaho...toppling buildings and sending the residents into a state of fear.