Considering the fact that we are only going to be in California for less than a month, I have a feeling the Earthquake Gods decided this mid-western girl should have the experience of a good ground shaking.
I must say it is an interesting feeling. At first I noticed my chair was shaking, but my brain was a little slow to catch on. The ground is not suppose to move like that, so I thought I must have been having a stroke or something. Finally my brain caught up and realized my desk and the entire house was also shaking. "Oh," I thought, "this is an earthquake." Of course then my next thought was, "wait, the ground is still moving... what am I suppose to do?" I guess I always expected it to be really short. Granted this one only lasted at most a minute... but it did seem longer than that. By the time I figured out that I should let the dog out of her crate and get both of us outside, the ground had stopped moving. I was almost unsure that it was not all in my imagination. Then I noticed the waves in the pool and the blinds all moving.
Thankfully there has been no real damage reported. Nothing even fell off of its shelf in my house. I was worried though for a bit. I figured if we could feel it that bad the epicenter had to have it worse. I forgot to factor in that these people are use to this sort of thing. They engineer buildings for it. The sky scrapers downtown all swayed... exactly as they are suppose to do. It is actually quite impressive. Heck, the fact that it took me a day to even write this speaks to how this city just rolls with the ground when it goes. =) We all took a deep breath, calmed down, and then went about our normal days.
It is a very interesting experience.... but I'm also glad to be heading back to firmer ground in the near future!
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