Holy cow...
I was just awakened from a deep sleep by an earthquake!
We're waiting on news on the epicenter-- I have been trying to connect with the seismology website, but can you imagine, it won't connect.
Sky news is JUST now talking about it.
I do not know how you Californians do this on a regular basis.
I just had the snot scared out of me.
Here's my priorities... I will blog about it and then go gather my children.
really? that is so bizarre!!!
ReplyDeleteOh no! How scary! I'm glad you are okay.
ReplyDeletePlease update us as soon as everything calms down.
I grew up in CA, and you actually get used to earthquakes after a while. I was born out there, so I learned to sleep through a lot of them (especially those below a 4). :-) Plus, there are lots of precautionary things they do (no homes or buildings are made entirely of brick and a lot of the tall buildings have rollers in their foundations so the building will go with the flow instead of against it causing it to fall apart).
ReplyDeleteThe last earthquake I was in, though, I had just returned home from two years in college and it SCARED the CRAP out of me. I haven't been comfortable in an earthquake since; although, I would rather be in earthquake country than tornado land. At least with an earthquake it's over pretty quickly and you have no advance warning. With tornadoes, you have nothing BUT warnings for HOURS and most of the time no tornado. It's the anticipation and what ifs that kill me. I'd rather just get it over with.
I hope you and your family are okay and your kids aren't too scared.
Good night Irene! Is everything okay?
ReplyDeleteThanks bloggy friends. Isn't it silly I came to you before my kids?? And Kari--I will sit in a basement eating snack bars for twelve hours anytime over being awakened by a chimney pot falling in on me-- IF I have the deepest, thickest-walled basement ever built. ;-)
ReplyDeleteBut, but, I don't have a basement! I'm so screwed here. H gets frustrated with me becuase I get upset when they interrupt my TV shows to show NOTHING but the map and what COULD be (not what IS). :-) They could put a rolling ticker on the bottom of the screen like ESPN does for scores or the channels do for school closings. There, they could list all the counties that need to take cover so those of us out of harms way can at least have a good night of TV. I'm a TV Junkie, I can't help it.
ReplyDeleteIt woke me up, too, and I grew up in earthquake country California.
ReplyDelete;-)