On Sunday, Adam and I were both sitting and working on our computers when the room started shaking! Such a strange feeling! It lasted long enough for me to thing thoughts such as:
"Oh gosh, this is really happening"
"Should I go hold the pictures on the wall?"
"I need to get out of my PJ's if we have to go outside"
"I should shut down my computer"
And then it was over. I've experienced one earthquake before in Alabama, though it was in the middle of the night so I half way woke up, thought that Jesus was coming back, then fell back asleep and only realized what had happened the next morning. So it was kind of exciting to be fully alert and awake for this one!
Of course they have websites that update almost instantly, so we immediately were able to see that it was a 4.7 and occurred only about 10 miles from our house! Crazy! So while it wasn't "the big one" from the last season of the OC, it was enough to blog about!
Here's a photo of the damage that occurred inside our house. Before the quake, this shelf looked like this:
After the quake, it looked like this:
I know, its traumatic, but I think we'll recover. And I've survived my CA initiation!
3 comments:
whoa! We weren't here, but I wonder if we would have felt it. Scary. I'm glad you survived.
I didn't feel it, but it's probably a good thing. I don't know if I could have handled that kind of destruction!
wow! thats crazy. glad everything is ok! we missed you this weekend!
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