you shook me baby

Aug 23, 2011 23:59

I was at home when the earthquake hit. It took me about 2 seconds to realize what was happening, and did I ever get scared. What a surprise! It went on for what seemed a sickeningly long while (a minute or so?). I was thinking I need to run outside NOW. Except... damn, I was naked. Wouldn't you just know it... But then it was OK. The building I'm ( Read more... )

earth, yikes

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cmcmck August 24 2011, 06:58:14 UTC
Glad to hear you're okay- it seems all the folks on my blog who experienced it got away without any real harm done.

Sigh, though, over the ZOMG! Terrorism! reaction in some parts chez vous- maybe thirty odd years of the IRA has made us'uns hereabouts blasé about such things?

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cmcmck August 24 2011, 07:49:23 UTC
Oh! and my one and only experience of such was in the Vale of Spoleto some years back when we were staying in Perugia. Not the biggie that damaged Assisi so badly, but one a few years later.

All the hotel rooms in the region have info on what to do in the case of 'terremoto'.

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johanna_hypatia August 24 2011, 10:36:58 UTC
Thanks,I'd been wanting to work the word terremoto in there somehow. Ought to have known I could count on you. :)

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cmcmck August 24 2011, 11:58:45 UTC
It always sounds to me as though it should be a Japanese word :o)

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