WARNING! SEVERE WEATHER WHIPLASH! AKA: The Day After The Week Before...

[johnsheppardluv]

Greetings from Earthquake Tornado Hurricane Sunny-N-Hot Central!

It always happens in THREES, doesn't it? Got irony much, do we, Commonwealth? ;)

In other words, welcome to Chesterfield County, home of the craziest weather week that has ever had the misfortune to be reported on during the World News. And I was front and center for all of it. Which

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[ginevra17]

First: I'm so sorry for the trees :(
I have to say that I was surprised to hear about the eatrhquake in the US too. I don't really know the areas of the States in which earthquakes are more likely to happen, but in my life I had never heard of an earthquake so strong in the States. So I was surprised to hear that.
And since I live in one of the places with the highest seismic activity in the whole european country (lucky me), I know the feeling of the ground moving under you and the things moving around you, and it freaks me out every time.
I really hope everything is okay over there, for you and your family and everyone else too *hugs*

[johnsheppardluv]

Me too, about the trees. I wish there was some way we could save them or re-plant them or something. *sad sigh

[ginevra17]

*hugs back*

I'm glad you're all okay, except for the poor trees :(

Okay, here is a map of the seismic activity in Italy. The warmer the colours are, the higher the seismic activity is, so red means "many earthquakes" and licght green means "no earthquakes at all". I modified the original image to show you where I live, which is a totally red zone :P so it's not uncommon for us to have a little earthquake from time to time. Fortunately the last strong earthquake was in the 1980s here too and all the ones that I remember were just little ones and made no damages

[chloris]

You've definitely not had good luck these past few weeks!

Massachusetts had a few tornadoes back in May which is strange here too. Two, maybe three touchdowns and a fair amount of damage not that far from here. Luckily my town tends to kill storms (not huge ones like Irene but the smaller ones going across the state) so all the storms dissipated as they made their way towards us.

Too bad about the trees! It is sad to lose a tree, or three, but least none landed on the house. We only lost a couple mid-sized branches here which is why I was shocked at the damage elsewhere in the state. From where I was it didn't seem that bad.

[johnsheppardluv]

Looks like you haven't either, Chloris! *makes pooh-pooh-to-you-too faces at the odd weather we've both been having, for good measure...though I don't exactly know how doing THIS sort of thing could EVER really be considered to be a good meaasure, or a measure at all, really, but stilll...* *rambles on

[giallarhorn]

We apparently also got part of the quake, but I didn't feel a thing or notice anything. Everyone else around me seemed to have, so I don't know what's up with that XD

Generally, it's hard to say with tornadoes- climate pattern shifts, fluctuations and blah blah and statistics are only so reliable =/

At least the trees didn't hit your house or anything! We didn't see even a whiff of the hurricane, but I'm also pretty far inland that if a hurricane did come along, it'd have to be pretty nasty.

[johnsheppardluv]

Be very glad you didn't feel anything, Ken. Be VERY glad. Feeling THAT kind of thing? Surreal AND terrifying. And definitely NOT something to feel, if you were given the choice. If I were given the choice, I'd almost rather feel hot coals beneath my feet than the ground actually moving out from under me. I'm already clumsy enough as is. I don't need help from Planet Earth too

[giallarhorn]

Haha, I suppose it would be kind of surreal to experience. It's just that I've been through three earthquakes, and apparently I've never ever noticed a single one.

Actually, just towards the western end of NC, but far enough along that we didn't even get any rain from it. Which was some shame.

Wohoo, that's good to hear as well!