The big news of the day was the East Coast Earthquake. There was rioting in Libya, another earthquake in Colorado, and there is a Hurricane bearing down on the East Coast. The fact that we live in Central Virginia made it a pretty major event here.
We now have scored a 5.8 with an aftershock of 4.2 (about an hour ago) and I'm thinking that 10 (5.8 + 4.2) is a nice round number and the earth can just take a well deserved rest now.
When the quake occurred, I was at the dentist's office with Favorite Son. Luckily he was finished with his visit and we were checking out and getting our bill.When the building started shaking, my son and I both looked up at the massive skylit roof that we were standing beneath. I felt the ground moving and told him to get outside with me. We left the staff standing there staring and bolted out of the waiting room and building. People stared at us as if we were crazy. We were the ONLY people who left the building.
If there is one thing that I have discovered about disasters, it is this: GET OUT! It was sort of like watching a horror movie when the audience is shouting at the screen for the people to run, but in spite of the warning ominous sounds, the fools still go into the creepy unlit house. Only, we were running and everybody else was hanging out inside like there was no other option.
I understand that the dental office staff needed to say with their patients today, but the rest of the folks who were gawking at me and my son must have thought that the shaking building was just going to magically fall down around them and not on them.
When our house was on fire, I made sure the kids and dog were across the street and then I GOT OUT. No shoes, no jewelry box, no photo albums, nothing...
People love to tell me how they know just where their important things are and how they will take them on the way out of the house in the event of an emergency. Well, that is fine to think, but trust me, you will get your butt out of the building and not think twice about anything else.
Her Royal Cuteness and I have been arguing this evening as to whether we are getting warning signs for the Rapture or the Zombie Apocalypse. It really matters which it is because my emergency kit is different for each event. Maybe I will get both kits ready...
I carbo load every day just in case of the Zombie Apocalypse. In the evening I celebrate with a glass of wine because it didn't happen. I like it when I can justify my habits.
ReplyDeleteWait. In a zombie apocolypse, do I have to get eaten?
ReplyDeleteIf so, I'm going with the rapture.
I've been reasonably good, so I've got a 50/50 shot. But eaten by a zombie? Have you smelt zombie breath? I'll take my chances on judgement day. :)
Every time I remember about your house fire I literally shake my head. What an awful awful event to endure. Sheesh!
ReplyDeleteI'd follow you outta that office if there were a quake. (At least I hope I would be bright enough to follow you...)
I'm with Julianna i'll take rapture not into stinky Zombie breath and besides i too have been 50/50 on the being good so i'll chance it. wow so sorry about your house i must have missed that post. how awful
ReplyDeleteOooh, ooh, I vote Zombie Apocolypse!! (My odds in Rapture are not as even as your other readers'...I'm leaning more towards 10/90. Against!)
ReplyDeleteI don't know which emergency kit I need, either, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to store them each in a different place. That way, whatever happens, I should have the appropriate kit available to me.
ReplyDeleteI think your safe on the Rapture thing however when we lived in California it was a good idea to have a plan for earthquakes. You did fine. Glad the family is safe and sound. Hang in there! W.C.C.
ReplyDeleteIt's scary what's happening with Mother Nature these days, that's for sure.
ReplyDeleteWhile I was one of the FEW people in NJ that did NOT feel the earthquake, I did get nailed by the hurricane.
All that kind of stuff makes me want to move to a mountain top. With my luck, it would end up being a volcano!
ReplyDeleteShoot we never really have disasters in Arizona....its just sticking hot. Always, hot.
ReplyDeleteI think I would have made sure to get my fridge out of the house. I paid a lot of money for that thing :)
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