My Earthquake Experience (brief)

[NJCher]

I was in a faculty meeting.

I thought it was a hot flash.

Honest to Dog. Others had to inform me. :)


Cher

[I Have A Dream]

1. "I thought it was a hot flash."

Oh, that's wonderful! I totally "get" that!

:rofl:

[NJCher]

2. I was simply underwhelmed!

Kinda' like what's on this thread:

Nine Not Very Shocking Photos of the DC Earthquake

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x753538


Cher

[findrskeep]

3. Now that would be

SOME hot flash!!:silly: My husband felt it at work in Salem Mass. He was having a meeting with two guys sitting across from him and they started swaying! I was laying out in the sun at home and didn't feel a thing, but HEARD it!

[MorningGlow]

4. LOL

I thought I was sitting in the rocking chair at my mom's house wrong. Have you ever had something pressing on your back in a funny way so you could feel your heartbeat? I thought it was that for a minute, but when I moved, so the wood wasn't pressing on my back muscle, I could still feel the chair shaking. But it wasn't a rattling movement like the earthquakes I've experienced in California. It was more a side-to-side jiggling, but slow. Then I thought that whoever was doing construction near my mom's house (we could hear the power saw) was shaking the whole neighborhood. But then I realized that would be unrealistic. Right about then my aunt sat up and said, "Do you feel that?" THEN we realized something funny was going on.

[OneGrassRoot]

5. THAT is funny!

:rofl:

:hug:

[LiberalEsto]

6. All the dishes in our china cabinet started rattling

At first I thought it might be construction, but they kept rattling.
I was thrilled: my first earthquake.

[OneGrassRoot]

7. It's weird, somehow I missed it...

Granted, it wasn't nearly as strong here (Raleigh, NC) as where you were, but everyone else seemed to definitely notice it -- and they even "heard" it.

I was blow drying my hair. I didn't notice ANYTHING amiss. My SO came running in saying, "We just had an earthquake!"

My daughter said her bed became like a waterbed with the rolling movement.

wow.....

[woodsprite]

8. In Delaware, I was at my desk at work and thought my cubby mate was

shaking his leg. He does that when he's working on a problem and I can usually feel my desk vibrate, but then it increased in intensity and we all sat there and watched our monitors shake for like 20 seconds. I looked at the lighting fixtures. Hubby was down the hall in a meeting and said that when he stood up, it felt like the building was actually jumping, not swaying side to side. None of us thought about evacuating. In hindsight, we agreed we need to seek shelter under our cubby desks next time.

My 18yo daughter was home alone with the dog and cat. She said that the bookcases were swaying and the windows were rattling. We had a few things fall off bookshelves, shower shelves, my dressing table, etc. She said that the dog was acting crazy, running around jumping at doors and windows and the cat was running around yeowling and hissing with his tail puffed out. Our 80lb shepherd has been very adamant about not letting us out of her sight tonight, resting her paws on us, sitting on our feet, and she's been chewing on EVERYTHING (something she never has done). I made a run to the dog store to get her some bully sticks because she ripped up 3 of her squeeky stuffies tonight. She hates storms and always runs to lay beside me or my daughter. I can imagine how scared she was this afternoon.

11yo son - well, he was playing outside in the woods at summer camp. They didn't know anything happened until they heard the fire alarm go off and the kids and teachers all met on the playground.

Glad it didn't happen earlier in the day, although that might have been the most interesting gyn checkup I've ever had ;)

[kentauros]

9. What a great thing to read before I go to bed!

:rofl:

Thanks for the laugh, NJCher :hi:

[SheilaT]

10. In May of 1994 I was in Los Angeles

for something I will describe as a convention (it's too complicated to go into). One morning when my radio went off -- it was tuned to an NPR station as if there's anything else to listen to -- and the first words I heard went something like this: "Early this morning residents of Los Angeles were jolted awake by an aftershock of the Northridge Earthquake."

I slept through it, although at least half of those in my group were awakened by it.