My new hair style

I can't believe I forgot to post this but I finally took the plunge and cut
it.
OMG AN EARTHQUAKE!!!
OK, back to posting ...
Anyway, I love it so much. I took this photo to my stylist and she did this
exact cut –– a French bob.
http://tinyurl.com/bgr4a
My hair is about the same color. Now when I wake up in the morning it looks
like it's in a style instead of the ends being all bent. I can style this
with hot rollers or velcro and I just love it. YAY!!
PS –– Did anyone else feel that? Seemed like about a 5.0 ...

I can't believe I forgot to post this but I finally took the plunge and cut
it.
OMG AN EARTHQUAKE!!!
OK, back to posting ...
Anyway, I love it so much. I took this photo to my stylist and she did this
exact cut –– a French bob.
http://tinyurl.com/bgr4a
My hair is about the same color. Now when I wake up in the morning it looks
like it's in a style instead of the ends being all bent. I can style this
with hot rollers or velcro and I just love it. YAY!!
PS –– Did anyone else feel that? Seemed like about a 5.0 ...

"Miss Livvy" <Xeveryidiwantistak...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:%PYqe.3252$jX6.1...@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/Los_Angeles.html It isn't
recorded yet but I'm sure it will be soon.
That's a great hairstyle. Is your hair thick?
Audrey

"Miss Livvy" <Xeveryidiwantistak...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:%PYqe.3252$jX6.1...@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/Los_Angeles.html It isn't
recorded yet but I'm sure it will be soon.
That's a great hairstyle. Is your hair thick?
Audrey

"Miss Livvy" <Xeveryidiwantistak...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:%PYqe.3252$jX6.1...@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/Los_Angeles.html It isn't
recorded yet but I'm sure it will be soon.
That's a great hairstyle. Is your hair thick?
Audrey

"Miss Livvy" <Xeveryidiwantistak...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:%PYqe.3252$jX6.1...@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/Los_Angeles.html It isn't
recorded yet but I'm sure it will be soon.
That's a great hairstyle. Is your hair thick?
Audrey

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 15:49:15 GMT, Miss Livvy wrote:
Well, the only quake the site Audrey mentioned had for today
(2005/06/12 09:51:17) was:
Magnitude 1.7
33.624N 117.564W
3 km ( 2 mi) SE of Rancho Santa Margarita, CA
––
Visit... http://sneakers.pair.com/

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 15:49:15 GMT, Miss Livvy wrote:
Well, the only quake the site Audrey mentioned had for today
(2005/06/12 09:51:17) was:
Magnitude 1.7
33.624N 117.564W
3 km ( 2 mi) SE of Rancho Santa Margarita, CA
––
Visit... http://sneakers.pair.com/

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 15:49:15 GMT, Miss Livvy wrote:
Well, the only quake the site Audrey mentioned had for today
(2005/06/12 09:51:17) was:
Magnitude 1.7
33.624N 117.564W
3 km ( 2 mi) SE of Rancho Santa Margarita, CA
––
Visit... http://sneakers.pair.com/

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 15:49:15 GMT, Miss Livvy wrote:
Well, the only quake the site Audrey mentioned had for today
(2005/06/12 09:51:17) was:
Magnitude 1.7
33.624N 117.564W
3 km ( 2 mi) SE of Rancho Santa Margarita, CA
––
Visit... http://sneakers.pair.com/

that's the one that Fashiondish and I felt this AM.. her in her house,
me in mine!
LOVE that hairstyle
Stevie

that's the one that Fashiondish and I felt this AM.. her in her house,
me in mine!
LOVE that hairstyle
Stevie

that's the one that Fashiondish and I felt this AM.. her in her house,
me in mine!
LOVE that hairstyle
Stevie

that's the one that Fashiondish and I felt this AM.. her in her house,
me in mine!
LOVE that hairstyle
Stevie

It's not thick but it has some wave in it. I use gel, mousse, and/or spray
in the roots and it takes a soft curl very well.

It's not thick but it has some wave in it. I use gel, mousse, and/or spray
in the roots and it takes a soft curl very well.

Charlie Perrin wrote:
5.6, 9 km ( 6 mi) ESE of Anza, CA
http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/117–34.html
wg
––
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
–Benjamin Franklin

Charlie Perrin wrote:
5.6, 9 km ( 6 mi) ESE of Anza, CA
http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/117–34.html
wg
––
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
–Benjamin Franklin

Charlie Perrin wrote:
5.6, 9 km ( 6 mi) ESE of Anza, CA
http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/117–34.html
wg
––
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
–Benjamin Franklin

Charlie Perrin wrote:
5.6, 9 km ( 6 mi) ESE of Anza, CA
http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/117–34.html
wg
––
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
–Benjamin Franklin

"Charlie Perrin" <c.l.per...@SPAMBOTS_DIEatt.net> wrote in message
news:9csoa1tilj8s3m0ft2nv9v4daoggp69...@4ax.com...
If you click through, you will see that there was a 5.6 mag EQ recorded at
8:41am.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2005/ci14151344/
Yahoo has an article on it as well.
I certainly didn't feel it – not from NYC! – but I lived in a suburb of LA
for a few years and based on my experience I don't think Miss Livvy would
have mistaken a 1.7 magnitude for a 5.0 magnitude!
–stars

"Charlie Perrin" <c.l.per...@SPAMBOTS_DIEatt.net> wrote in message
news:9csoa1tilj8s3m0ft2nv9v4daoggp69...@4ax.com...
If you click through, you will see that there was a 5.6 mag EQ recorded at
8:41am.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2005/ci14151344/
Yahoo has an article on it as well.
I certainly didn't feel it – not from NYC! – but I lived in a suburb of LA
for a few years and based on my experience I don't think Miss Livvy would
have mistaken a 1.7 magnitude for a 5.0 magnitude!
–stars

"Charlie Perrin" <c.l.per...@SPAMBOTS_DIEatt.net> wrote in message
news:9csoa1tilj8s3m0ft2nv9v4daoggp69...@4ax.com...
If you click through, you will see that there was a 5.6 mag EQ recorded at
8:41am.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2005/ci14151344/
Yahoo has an article on it as well.
I certainly didn't feel it – not from NYC! – but I lived in a suburb of LA
for a few years and based on my experience I don't think Miss Livvy would
have mistaken a 1.7 magnitude for a 5.0 magnitude!
–stars

"Charlie Perrin" <c.l.per...@SPAMBOTS_DIEatt.net> wrote in message
news:9csoa1tilj8s3m0ft2nv9v4daoggp69...@4ax.com...
If you click through, you will see that there was a 5.6 mag EQ recorded at
8:41am.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2005/ci14151344/
Yahoo has an article on it as well.
I certainly didn't feel it – not from NYC! – but I lived in a suburb of LA
for a few years and based on my experience I don't think Miss Livvy would
have mistaken a 1.7 magnitude for a 5.0 magnitude!
–stars

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:59:45 –0400, stars wrote:
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 15:49:15 GMT, Miss Livvy wrote:
OMG AN EARTHQUAKE!!!
PS –– Did anyone else feel that? Seemed like about a 5.0 ...
Looking where I was pointed.... not on that list.
Looking where you pointed... big blue box.
Google News has a lot of references to it.
––
Visit... http://sneakers.pair.com/

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:59:45 –0400, stars wrote:
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 15:49:15 GMT, Miss Livvy wrote:
OMG AN EARTHQUAKE!!!
PS –– Did anyone else feel that? Seemed like about a 5.0 ...
Looking where I was pointed.... not on that list.
Looking where you pointed... big blue box.
Google News has a lot of references to it.
––
Visit... http://sneakers.pair.com/

It's not thick but it has some wave in it. I use gel, mousse, and/or spray
in the roots and it takes a soft curl very well.

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:59:45 –0400, stars wrote:
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 15:49:15 GMT, Miss Livvy wrote:
OMG AN EARTHQUAKE!!!
PS –– Did anyone else feel that? Seemed like about a 5.0 ...
Looking where I was pointed.... not on that list.
Looking where you pointed... big blue box.
Google News has a lot of references to it.
––
Visit... http://sneakers.pair.com/

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:59:45 –0400, stars wrote:
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 15:49:15 GMT, Miss Livvy wrote:
OMG AN EARTHQUAKE!!!
PS –– Did anyone else feel that? Seemed like about a 5.0 ...
Looking where I was pointed.... not on that list.
Looking where you pointed... big blue box.
Google News has a lot of references to it.
––
Visit... http://sneakers.pair.com/

"Charlie Perrin" <c.l.per...@SPAMBOTS_DIEatt.net> wrote in message
news:od3pa15pmo8mnsuadvr6s1jm9c60bja...@4ax.com...
The epicenter was in the Anza Borrego desert valley. On the map you can
see the fault lines and anyone who lives on or near the fault feels it
and the aftershocks a lot more than someone not as close. I lived in
southern California for 20 years and experienced lots of earthquakes.
When we are at Kings Canyon Ntl Park we can feel the quakes that happen
frequently in Mammoth. I think the fault line is basically a straight
shot under the mountains. Googling info shows that the Anza Borrego area
had a 6.5 quake in 1968. That is very scary.

"Charlie Perrin" <c.l.per...@SPAMBOTS_DIEatt.net> wrote in message
news:od3pa15pmo8mnsuadvr6s1jm9c60bja...@4ax.com...
The epicenter was in the Anza Borrego desert valley. On the map you can
see the fault lines and anyone who lives on or near the fault feels it
and the aftershocks a lot more than someone not as close. I lived in
southern California for 20 years and experienced lots of earthquakes.
When we are at Kings Canyon Ntl Park we can feel the quakes that happen
frequently in Mammoth. I think the fault line is basically a straight
shot under the mountains. Googling info shows that the Anza Borrego area
had a 6.5 quake in 1968. That is very scary.

"Charlie Perrin" <c.l.per...@SPAMBOTS_DIEatt.net> wrote in message
news:od3pa15pmo8mnsuadvr6s1jm9c60bja...@4ax.com...
The epicenter was in the Anza Borrego desert valley. On the map you can
see the fault lines and anyone who lives on or near the fault feels it
and the aftershocks a lot more than someone not as close. I lived in
southern California for 20 years and experienced lots of earthquakes.
When we are at Kings Canyon Ntl Park we can feel the quakes that happen
frequently in Mammoth. I think the fault line is basically a straight
shot under the mountains. Googling info shows that the Anza Borrego area
had a 6.5 quake in 1968. That is very scary.

"Charlie Perrin" <c.l.per...@SPAMBOTS_DIEatt.net> wrote in message
news:od3pa15pmo8mnsuadvr6s1jm9c60bja...@4ax.com...
The epicenter was in the Anza Borrego desert valley. On the map you can
see the fault lines and anyone who lives on or near the fault feels it
and the aftershocks a lot more than someone not as close. I lived in
southern California for 20 years and experienced lots of earthquakes.
When we are at Kings Canyon Ntl Park we can feel the quakes that happen
frequently in Mammoth. I think the fault line is basically a straight
shot under the mountains. Googling info shows that the Anza Borrego area
had a 6.5 quake in 1968. That is very scary.

It's not thick but it has some wave in it. I use gel, mousse, and/or spray
in the roots and it takes a soft curl very well.

"Charlie Perrin" <c.l.per...@SPAMBOTS_DIEatt.net> wrote in message
news:od3pa15pmo8mnsuadvr6s1jm9c60bja...@4ax.com...
I know – I found it strange that it wasn't on the list in the initial link.
Does that particular map cut off and not show the area where the 5.6 was
centered?
–stars

"Charlie Perrin" <c.l.per...@SPAMBOTS_DIEatt.net> wrote in message
news:od3pa15pmo8mnsuadvr6s1jm9c60bja...@4ax.com...
I know – I found it strange that it wasn't on the list in the initial link.
Does that particular map cut off and not show the area where the 5.6 was
centered?
–stars

"Charlie Perrin" <c.l.per...@SPAMBOTS_DIEatt.net> wrote in message
news:od3pa15pmo8mnsuadvr6s1jm9c60bja...@4ax.com...
I know – I found it strange that it wasn't on the list in the initial link.
Does that particular map cut off and not show the area where the 5.6 was
centered?
–stars

"Charlie Perrin" <c.l.per...@SPAMBOTS_DIEatt.net> wrote in message
news:od3pa15pmo8mnsuadvr6s1jm9c60bja...@4ax.com...
I know – I found it strange that it wasn't on the list in the initial link.
Does that particular map cut off and not show the area where the 5.6 was
centered?
–stars

"ahmward" <nospam.ahmw...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:zPidnbKty_v4BTHfRVn–...@giganews.com...
When I lived in CA I was living in Palos Verdes. Looking at the map in the
link you posted Palos Verdes is the peninsula that sticks out near Catalina
Island.....with the big red fault line running right through it. I will
never forget driving around the Portuguese Bend area of Palos Verdes and
seeing the signs indicating the land was constantly in motion. It was just
shocking to someone who had spent all of their life on the east coast up
until that point. I googled for the text of the sign:
"PORTUGUESE BEND LANDSLIDE AREA CONSTANT LANDSLIDE MOVEMENT NEXT 0.8 MILES –
USE EXTREME CAUTION"
It was even more shocking in the context of seeing things like fences with
gates that would no longer close b/c one side of the gate was 10 feet away
from the other. I was 11 years old when I lived out there and the first
time I ever felt a tremor I was scared out of my mind! I got used to them
after a while.
–stars

"ahmward" <nospam.ahmw...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:zPidnbKty_v4BTHfRVn–...@giganews.com...
When I lived in CA I was living in Palos Verdes. Looking at the map in the
link you posted Palos Verdes is the peninsula that sticks out near Catalina
Island.....with the big red fault line running right through it. I will
never forget driving around the Portuguese Bend area of Palos Verdes and
seeing the signs indicating the land was constantly in motion. It was just
shocking to someone who had spent all of their life on the east coast up
until that point. I googled for the text of the sign:
"PORTUGUESE BEND LANDSLIDE AREA CONSTANT LANDSLIDE MOVEMENT NEXT 0.8 MILES –
USE EXTREME CAUTION"
It was even more shocking in the context of seeing things like fences with
gates that would no longer close b/c one side of the gate was 10 feet away
from the other. I was 11 years old when I lived out there and the first
time I ever felt a tremor I was scared out of my mind! I got used to them
after a while.
–stars

"ahmward" <nospam.ahmw...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:zPidnbKty_v4BTHfRVn–...@giganews.com...
When I lived in CA I was living in Palos Verdes. Looking at the map in the
link you posted Palos Verdes is the peninsula that sticks out near Catalina
Island.....with the big red fault line running right through it. I will
never forget driving around the Portuguese Bend area of Palos Verdes and
seeing the signs indicating the land was constantly in motion. It was just
shocking to someone who had spent all of their life on the east coast up
until that point. I googled for the text of the sign:
"PORTUGUESE BEND LANDSLIDE AREA CONSTANT LANDSLIDE MOVEMENT NEXT 0.8 MILES –
USE EXTREME CAUTION"
It was even more shocking in the context of seeing things like fences with
gates that would no longer close b/c one side of the gate was 10 feet away
from the other. I was 11 years old when I lived out there and the first
time I ever felt a tremor I was scared out of my mind! I got used to them
after a while.
–stars

"ahmward" <nospam.ahmw...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:zPidnbKty_v4BTHfRVn–...@giganews.com...
When I lived in CA I was living in Palos Verdes. Looking at the map in the
link you posted Palos Verdes is the peninsula that sticks out near Catalina
Island.....with the big red fault line running right through it. I will
never forget driving around the Portuguese Bend area of Palos Verdes and
seeing the signs indicating the land was constantly in motion. It was just
shocking to someone who had spent all of their life on the east coast up
until that point. I googled for the text of the sign:
"PORTUGUESE BEND LANDSLIDE AREA CONSTANT LANDSLIDE MOVEMENT NEXT 0.8 MILES –
USE EXTREME CAUTION"
It was even more shocking in the context of seeing things like fences with
gates that would no longer close b/c one side of the gate was 10 feet away
from the other. I was 11 years old when I lived out there and the first
time I ever felt a tremor I was scared out of my mind! I got used to them
after a while.
–stars

"stars" <st...@vzavenue.net> wrote in message
news:3h3ll1Ff2si...@individual.net...
Another very active area is near Parkfield close to the central coast.
There is a seismograph close to Mission San Juan Bautista and it shows
constant motion.

"stars" <st...@vzavenue.net> wrote in message
news:3h3ll1Ff2si...@individual.net...
Another very active area is near Parkfield close to the central coast.
There is a seismograph close to Mission San Juan Bautista and it shows
constant motion.

"stars" <st...@vzavenue.net> wrote in message
news:3h3ll1Ff2si...@individual.net...
Another very active area is near Parkfield close to the central coast.
There is a seismograph close to Mission San Juan Bautista and it shows
constant motion.

"stars" <st...@vzavenue.net> wrote in message
news:3h3ll1Ff2si...@individual.net...
Another very active area is near Parkfield close to the central coast.
There is a seismograph close to Mission San Juan Bautista and it shows
constant motion.

"ahmward" <nospam.ahmw...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:G7mdnfbxx_XwMDHfRVn–...@giganews.com...
I was in my office building three stories up in February of 2001 when the
Nisqually Earthquake happened. It was a magnitude 6.8 earthquake where the
epicenter was only about an hour and a half from me. A huge framed (more
long than it was wide) picture of the downtown skyline started falling off
the wall and it was headed straight towards my forehead as I felt the rumble
under my feet. I sort of halfway caught it and then it "jumped" from my arms
like I was holding a frog and I just told myself "Screw it...I don't care
what happens to the damned thing. It's just a picture". The frame was
dented, but the glass didn't shatter.
Most of the people in the office who were screaming and freaking out had
children, however. The kids were all the way at school or were in day care,
yet when something like that happens, I guess you automatically scream out
your child's name, it's just a force of habit. It was *not* fun, yet for
some reason, even though books and little flower pots were falling all over
the place, I felt like none of us were going to die, and we're (from my
office at least) still alive. I was more concerned about glass shattering
than things falling over, really. It was very hard to remain in the same
place even under a table or desk, though. It's like you kept on losing your
footing. It felt like that scene in the Wizard of Oz for at least 32 seconds
when I finished counting. We always joke here in WA state that it sucks to
have Earthquakes, but at least we don't have to suffer Tornadoes and
Hurricanes.
I wound up with some cracks in the doorway near my kitchen and one in the
cupboard of a bathroom from that quake. A clock fell over and stopped
keeping correct time, but other than that, I got lucky. My best friend had
recently finished paying off a television that cost about a thousand
dollars, it fell *out* of her TV Cabinet in her third floor apartment,
landed straight in one piece with no shattered parts/glass on the living
room floor, yet the color tube never worked again, leaving her with a big,
huge B&W television that worked perfectly, yet gave no color. She replaced
it about a week later with a much cheaper model and said she'd never buy
anything that belongs in an armoire that was that expensive again.
http://www.pnsn.org/SEIS/EQ_Special/WEBDIR_01022818543p/welcome.html
JN

"ahmward" <nospam.ahmw...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:G7mdnfbxx_XwMDHfRVn–...@giganews.com...
I was in my office building three stories up in February of 2001 when the
Nisqually Earthquake happened. It was a magnitude 6.8 earthquake where the
epicenter was only about an hour and a half from me. A huge framed (more
long than it was wide) picture of the downtown skyline started falling off
the wall and it was headed straight towards my forehead as I felt the rumble
under my feet. I sort of halfway caught it and then it "jumped" from my arms
like I was holding a frog and I just told myself "Screw it...I don't care
what happens to the damned thing. It's just a picture". The frame was
dented, but the glass didn't shatter.
Most of the people in the office who were screaming and freaking out had
children, however. The kids were all the way at school or were in day care,
yet when something like that happens, I guess you automatically scream out
your child's name, it's just a force of habit. It was *not* fun, yet for
some reason, even though books and little flower pots were falling all over
the place, I felt like none of us were going to die, and we're (from my
office at least) still alive. I was more concerned about glass shattering
than things falling over, really. It was very hard to remain in the same
place even under a table or desk, though. It's like you kept on losing your
footing. It felt like that scene in the Wizard of Oz for at least 32 seconds
when I finished counting. We always joke here in WA state that it sucks to
have Earthquakes, but at least we don't have to suffer Tornadoes and
Hurricanes.
I wound up with some cracks in the doorway near my kitchen and one in the
cupboard of a bathroom from that quake. A clock fell over and stopped
keeping correct time, but other than that, I got lucky. My best friend had
recently finished paying off a television that cost about a thousand
dollars, it fell *out* of her TV Cabinet in her third floor apartment,
landed straight in one piece with no shattered parts/glass on the living
room floor, yet the color tube never worked again, leaving her with a big,
huge B&W television that worked perfectly, yet gave no color. She replaced
it about a week later with a much cheaper model and said she'd never buy
anything that belongs in an armoire that was that expensive again.
http://www.pnsn.org/SEIS/EQ_Special/WEBDIR_01022818543p/welcome.html
JN

"ahmward" <nospam.ahmw...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:G7mdnfbxx_XwMDHfRVn–...@giganews.com...
I was in my office building three stories up in February of 2001 when the
Nisqually Earthquake happened. It was a magnitude 6.8 earthquake where the
epicenter was only about an hour and a half from me. A huge framed (more
long than it was wide) picture of the downtown skyline started falling off
the wall and it was headed straight towards my forehead as I felt the rumble
under my feet. I sort of halfway caught it and then it "jumped" from my arms
like I was holding a frog and I just told myself "Screw it...I don't care
what happens to the damned thing. It's just a picture". The frame was
dented, but the glass didn't shatter.
Most of the people in the office who were screaming and freaking out had
children, however. The kids were all the way at school or were in day care,
yet when something like that happens, I guess you automatically scream out
your child's name, it's just a force of habit. It was *not* fun, yet for
some reason, even though books and little flower pots were falling all over
the place, I felt like none of us were going to die, and we're (from my
office at least) still alive. I was more concerned about glass shattering
than things falling over, really. It was very hard to remain in the same
place even under a table or desk, though. It's like you kept on losing your
footing. It felt like that scene in the Wizard of Oz for at least 32 seconds
when I finished counting. We always joke here in WA state that it sucks to
have Earthquakes, but at least we don't have to suffer Tornadoes and
Hurricanes.
I wound up with some cracks in the doorway near my kitchen and one in the
cupboard of a bathroom from that quake. A clock fell over and stopped
keeping correct time, but other than that, I got lucky. My best friend had
recently finished paying off a television that cost about a thousand
dollars, it fell *out* of her TV Cabinet in her third floor apartment,
landed straight in one piece with no shattered parts/glass on the living
room floor, yet the color tube never worked again, leaving her with a big,
huge B&W television that worked perfectly, yet gave no color. She replaced
it about a week later with a much cheaper model and said she'd never buy
anything that belongs in an armoire that was that expensive again.
http://www.pnsn.org/SEIS/EQ_Special/WEBDIR_01022818543p/welcome.html
JN

"ahmward" <nospam.ahmw...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:G7mdnfbxx_XwMDHfRVn–...@giganews.com...
I was in my office building three stories up in February of 2001 when the
Nisqually Earthquake happened. It was a magnitude 6.8 earthquake where the
epicenter was only about an hour and a half from me. A huge framed (more
long than it was wide) picture of the downtown skyline started falling off
the wall and it was headed straight towards my forehead as I felt the rumble
under my feet. I sort of halfway caught it and then it "jumped" from my arms
like I was holding a frog and I just told myself "Screw it...I don't care
what happens to the damned thing. It's just a picture". The frame was
dented, but the glass didn't shatter.
Most of the people in the office who were screaming and freaking out had
children, however. The kids were all the way at school or were in day care,
yet when something like that happens, I guess you automatically scream out
your child's name, it's just a force of habit. It was *not* fun, yet for
some reason, even though books and little flower pots were falling all over
the place, I felt like none of us were going to die, and we're (from my
office at least) still alive. I was more concerned about glass shattering
than things falling over, really. It was very hard to remain in the same
place even under a table or desk, though. It's like you kept on losing your
footing. It felt like that scene in the Wizard of Oz for at least 32 seconds
when I finished counting. We always joke here in WA state that it sucks to
have Earthquakes, but at least we don't have to suffer Tornadoes and
Hurricanes.
I wound up with some cracks in the doorway near my kitchen and one in the
cupboard of a bathroom from that quake. A clock fell over and stopped
keeping correct time, but other than that, I got lucky. My best friend had
recently finished paying off a television that cost about a thousand
dollars, it fell *out* of her TV Cabinet in her third floor apartment,
landed straight in one piece with no shattered parts/glass on the living
room floor, yet the color tube never worked again, leaving her with a big,
huge B&W television that worked perfectly, yet gave no color. She replaced
it about a week later with a much cheaper model and said she'd never buy
anything that belongs in an armoire that was that expensive again.
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