We had an earthquake today! About 1:45 (I am quite proud to admit that little G and I were asleep..) I was awoken to someone shaking my bed terribly and was about to turn over and pop little G on the booty when I realized she was sound asleep and NO ONE was shaking my bed. The bed, my dresser, the nightstand, my lamp, everything was SHAKING BY ITSELF!!!!!
Holy cow, earthquake, is what I first think, but then of course the over-react to most situations person sets into craze mode and I start to think the worst. I don't know if you visibly remember 9/11, but I do...JT was 3 weeks old. We had been in our new house 1 week. Ricky was in Little Rock, a good 3 hours away, and I was ALL ALONE with the babies...
Similar to today! I jump up a little disoriented to make sure it wasn't just my room shaking and ask G what is going on and she has a sheer look of terror as she is watching her dresser and all it's contents shake on the top. I tell them it's ok and I run downstairs to call Ricky. It stopped and by the time I got him, I was now shaking visibly... good grief, I don't handle things well, do I?
Ricky laughs and says, that's crazy, it was shaking there, too. (his office is downtown, about 20 minutes from here) Let me call you back when I find out what's going on... 10 minutes later-which is like eternity to someone who needs to go change her pants, he finally txts me back that it was a 5.5 magnitude in Southern Ontario. I have since researched it myself and found it to be near Ottawa, CA which is Northeast of here (picture Lake Ontario, it's just northeast of it and Lake Ontario is literally right above where I live...)
So WOW. I'm ready to move. Not such a big fan of natural disaster type things, like tornadoes, hurricanes, EARTHQUAKES... apparently, if common is the right word, they are "common" here. Some line that is nothing like the San Andreas fault, because that fault just might one day send California into the ocean, but more of a fault line that just rumbles every now and then... nice. Rumbles. According the earthquake center that can tell you the Richter scale of an earthquake as it's happening, anything that is 7 and up is bad. Really bad. This was a 5.5!!!!
Data tired of falling. Data tired of all these crazy natural issues being in my life...
Have a great Wednesday. I'll try, but boy, my stomach is still shaking... :)
We felt the earthquake in Ontario..we were there on vacation. We've been in Buffalo almost 6 years and never experienced an earthquake. I wouldn't worry at all about it!! My sister, who travels all over has actually been in three earthquakes. She said a 5.5 is actually rather small and not something to worry about. How is having all the kiddos home?
ReplyDeleteOh good, Sarah! I was reading some earthquake page that said there was some fault that common for these...can't always trust what you read! Besides, as long as there are no tornados, I'm good... ;)
ReplyDeleteIt is VERY HECTIC with all home... trying to do much of nothing this week and then trying to do some fun activities next...