Ka cika wannan magana: Bayan wata uku, kome ya canja. A ranar 18 ga Afrilu, 1906, da
Girgizar kasa ta San Francisco ta rushe garin, ta ƙone gine-gine, ta kashe mutane da yawa, ta lalata hidimar Leavitt, kuma ta lalata cocinsa. Girgizar ta girgiza kararrawar cocin daga hasumiyarta, ta tura ta ta ratsa rufin, ta katse ayyukan bauta na dogon lokaci. Girgizar ta kuma lalata gidajen masu sadarwa da yawa, tare da korar wasu daga garin da aka lalata. A cikin shekaru masu zuwa, kasancewar fastocin Leavitt ya kasance a bayyane a duk faɗin Yankin Bay. A cikin 1907, an sanya Leavitt ɗaya daga cikin masu wa'azin Jami'a a Cocin Tunawa a Jami'ar Leland Stanford Junior a Palo Alto. (Leavitt daga baya ya yi aiki a matsayin mai wa'azi na musamman a jami'ar, yana ba da wa'azin a ranakun Lahadi a lokacin shekara ta ilimi, kuma ya ba da wa'azin baccalaureate da yawa a ayyukan kammala karatun Stanford a lokacin da yake aiki a Ikilisiyar Unitarian ta farko).