what's shakin' bacon?
I'm on a list that emails me when there's an earthquake around here... and for the last month I've been getting emails notifying me about little ones here & there. Apparently a bunch of small ones is a good thing though, because it lets the tension out... but still... I can't help but thinking it's leading up to the (sound effect: dun-dun-dun) "big one".Living here I've totally become a big fat scaredy cat about earthquakes. I'm actually not that nervous about one happening, as much as I dread the actual onset of one. That slow rumbling that creeps it's way up to the edge of your house, and then permeates all your walls and objects of affection with monster sized rattling and you feel like it's never going to stop and everythings going to come crashing down. Ya, I could completely do w/o that. So, when I say I've become a big scaredy cat - it's actually more of a paranoia for that entire feeling. The wind will blow, rattling the windows, and my mind will think, "OMG, is it an earthquake?". My cat will be doing one of those furious behind the ear scratches w/ his back leg and the whole bed shakes and I woke up in a panic, thinking for sure my bed was shaking because there was an earthquake happening (FYI this time I had a pillow over my head while I was sleeping, so I couldn't auditorily match it up at first... it was still scary!).
I couldn't even escape my paranoia on the East Coast! When I was staying in Brooklyn, where they don't even get earthquakes, Karrie & Wayne's bottom floor flat would shake something fierce every time a truck or a bus went by! (she writes about this here). It was hilarious every time my mind would go, "Oh shit!..." and then remember, I'm in Brooklyn. ha!
So, anyway - apparently tonite there was a 7.0 off the coast up here, which initiated a Tsunami warning for about an hour, before it was called off. Oddly enough the service I am signed up for didn't email me about that one, but had emailed me about one that was about 5.1. I actually found out about it because my friend Summer in Steamboat IM'd me to ask me if I felt it. But then she kept going on about some Tsunami warning and I was like 'whu?!' Nice to know if I need to evacuate, I'll be hearing it over IM from 1,000 miles away. :p
