What happened was just this.
The air began to switch -
the house to pitch and suddenly
the hinges started to unhitch.
Oh, wait a minute . . . (Tho that IS what my creaky house sounded like
during this morning's mayhem).
Hooray, my power is finally back on!
Thought I'd check in and say thanks for the kind concern for us NW
listers and give my take on the Rattle in Seattle. Which is:
Yikes!!!!!! I've been in some small quakes and not been especially
frightened, but this one shook really really hard for a long time
(nearly a minute) and scared the you know what out of me. My daughter
was having a great time playing with Legos in her upstairs bedroom,
riding the swaying houseboat, till her freaked out mama showed up at her
door screaming to get downstairs and under the table. That seemed to
sober her up sufficiently.
I am amazed that there has been so little damage, considering this was a
7.0. My parents felt the quake down in the Columbia River Gorge, and my
best friend's parents felt it in Boise. Very little damage in my
vicinity, except for the inconvenience of losing power and phone service
for several hours. Which is to say were really fortunate and blessed.
Hope the rest of the Seattle crew are ok--Neil? Emmy?
An interesting irony: For weeks my husband, Tom,.has been loudly
fretting about his computer set up. "What if there's an earthquake? Is
my monitor going to jump off the desk?" Finally, last night, in a
somewhat less than nice way, I told him "Do you know how slim the
chances are of your computer being destroyed in an earthquake? Can you
just leave this alone and stop the earthquake talk?" These words
from my lips less than 18 hours ago.
Gotta go now. I have a rather large plate of crow to prepare.
Best regards,
Catherine T.
