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We just had our very own earthquake!
Apparently measured 4.7 on the Richter scale - which might be mini to you overseas living-on-a-faultline-people (or might not, I have no idea), but out here, it's pretty exciting.
I was babysitting Caleb at the time, and the stovepipe for my sister's fireplace was rattling incredibly loudly. And the couch was shaking.
I started mentally calculating how long it would take me to run into Caleb's room, grab him out of bed, sprint to the back door, and dive for cover before the house collapsed... and then the earthquake settled down.
So, no death-defying leaps from collapsing buildings today.
Apparently measured 4.7 on the Richter scale - which might be mini to you overseas living-on-a-faultline-people (or might not, I have no idea), but out here, it's pretty exciting.
I was babysitting Caleb at the time, and the stovepipe for my sister's fireplace was rattling incredibly loudly. And the couch was shaking.
I started mentally calculating how long it would take me to run into Caleb's room, grab him out of bed, sprint to the back door, and dive for cover before the house collapsed... and then the earthquake settled down.
So, no death-defying leaps from collapsing buildings today.
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Date: 2009-03-06 12:14 pm (UTC)Which is such a blessing!
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Date: 2009-03-06 01:49 pm (UTC)But yay for the lack of death-defying leaps! Always a sign of a quality day.
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Date: 2009-03-06 02:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-06 04:00 pm (UTC)Glad all is OK!
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Date: 2009-03-06 04:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-06 06:25 pm (UTC)During the 1989 Loma Prieta quake (the Bay Bridge fell down, freeways collapsed), I was at the gym, huddled under an archway with a couple dozen other people. All seemed fine when the shaking finally stopped, but when we walked outside, the brick facade of the building had crushed several cars right outside the front door. Which happened all over the place, leading to six pedestrian deaths in just one spot (my old place of employment, as it happens). So: stay inside!
That is all.
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Date: 2009-03-06 10:18 pm (UTC)Find a nice solid doorway to sand in. Seriously. Earhquake comes, stand in one of those because that's the bit that *won't* collapse.
I remember my parents telling me this from the earthquakes they used to live through quite regularly in Croatia.
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Date: 2009-03-07 12:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-07 01:10 am (UTC)I should point out that the house is on a hill, meaning that although the lounge room could conceivably fall several stories to the ground, the laundry actually sits on solid ground (well, close to it anyway). Probably the laundry doorway is the safety spot of choice.
Sad to have missed it!
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Date: 2009-03-09 01:05 am (UTC)-tucks you away into a very safe place, and slides you food in under the door-