Comments | jenderqueer: I don't like earthquakes!

jenderqueer

I don't like earthquakes!

Mar 01, 2007 23:00

I was in the middle of cooking, and actually stumbled a bit when it hit. Also had things fall off shelves for the first time since I've been in CA. That was a scary one:-( This reminds me of why I don't have things hanging over my bed!
Nothing fell in my bedroom, just in the kitchen, and nothing breakable hit the floor. Wah.

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plumbbobline March 2 2007, 13:49:26 UTC

Hey, I stumbled a bit and there wasn't even an earthquake.

We have floods and five and a half inches o rain yesterday in SC.

Is everything okay there? jenderqueer March 4 2007, 20:36:20 UTC

Hope the beaver pond isn't too flooded. The house is on high enough ground to be safe, right? Hugs

circesbed March 2 2007, 16:41:11 UTC

I'm glad you're okay.

Let me know if you're interested in hearing my "my first earthquake" experience.

jenderqueer March 4 2007, 20:30:13 UTC

Why, of course I am- do tell...

circesbed March 4 2007, 21:10:04 UTC

Damn, LJ just ate my first attempt at posting this.

Take two...
I think I was 12, but I was definitely not older than 14. I was in SF visiting Orin for the summer. He was at work, and us kids were at home to play, swim, etc.

I was playing this silly game called Zack McCracken on Orin's PC. Sometimes the game got stuck, and Orin said when it did that to just hit the big, red RESET button. (This was back in the day when such things actually existed! lol)

Zack got stuck, so I hit the big old red button.

Suddenly, the building started to shake and some car alarms outside starting going off. I thought, "OH SHIT!" and I was really scared.

The phone rang, and I answered it. It was Orin, "So, what'd you think of that?" My 12-year-old mind was racing, "How does he already know what happened? What DID happen??" And then he explained that I'd just survived my first earthquake.

LOL

hobbledehoy March 3 2007, 02:57:52 UTC

i have a fort under my table, where i spend much of my time. i mentioned to my partner that it was handy that i was under the table, and he tried to convince me that it wasn't an earthquake - that he was just stomping around too much. he's from florida. i grew up in washington, where there are earthquakes. i win.

um, that seemed oddly hostile. hi! i'm puck. i'm the newly-minted-baritone who met you on wednesday, briefly. can we be internet friends to rule the world?

Hello! blasfemmey March 17 2007, 18:27:43 UTC

I found your LJ on a friends LJ, being nosey and cruising around. I hope you don't mind! I saw your earthquake post, and were you by chance talking about the little series we had here in the end of Feb, beginning of March? There was on in particular I felt might well. I was sitting on the phone and I heard before I felt. As a person who has been in MANY earthquakes, I knew this one was gonna be a little ride. Generally, if its under a 3 pt magnitude, I dont feel it, but I think this was around a 4. Spoken like a true Californian, 3 and under doesn't scare me, anything above and my heart races!

I also read your post about being sick without a partner, and I do know that well. I have always prided myself on never being sick, and when I say never, I mean since I was maybe 9. This year I got hit with that cold/flu thing and I literally cried.

I hope you are feeling better. Do you want to be my friend?

By the way, my name is Sophia.