Another aftershock in Mineral VA.

[obxhead]

Not quite as bad or as long as the one at 8 PM but the cat I had just gotten calmed down is totally freaked again.

[Poll_Blind]

1. Sorry, I know what that can be like.

Sending out thoughts your way. You kind of have to make peace with it if you can. Otherwise it can really get on your nerves.

PB

[Ruby the Liberal]

3. Are you pacific coast?

This is new to so many of us. I wasn't scared but it was the most bizarre feeling.

Marked "experience an earthquake" off the bucket list today.

[Poll_Blind]

5. Yeah, in Oregon.

We haven't had one I've felt in Eugene in a long time but after moving up here from Louisiana, I gotta say it was the definition of unnerving. I mean, when you can't count on the Earth to be still under your feet it kinda takes the steam out of most of your other assumptions about the reliability of the universe, you know? :)

One trick somebody told me was if I ever felt really scared enough, just go lie down in the back yard or court yard if you're in an apartment. Just someplace nice and flat where nothing can fall on ya. I never wound up doing it but it made me feel better- like at least I had some option if I really didn't feel safe. Though I don't really recommend sleeping in an apartment's courtyard, you'd be surprised how nice people can get along when they have the fear ah God in 'em about something.

PB

[Ruby the Liberal]

6. It wasn't scary so much, it just felt like someone was

grabbing the couch legs and shaking it back and forth really quickly. It was more bizarre than anything.

Of course, thats easy to say when you don't know until after the fact what just happened. I honestly thought someone drove a semi into my house. Ironically, that thought was more comforting than the concept of an EQ at the time.

[Ruby the Liberal]

2. USGS has 2.8 (3:45), 2.2 (4:20) 4.2 (8:04) and now 3.4 (12:45)

I only felt the first one and it was weird. Wild stuff over here.

[Ruby the Liberal]

4. As for kitty - try catnip or albacore ('people') tuna - and be sure to give him/her the tuna water.

:)

[obxhead]

7. Yeah,

no treat of any kind is comforting her at all. I think that last rumble sent her round the bend.

She's clearly never going to be a California kitty.

[Ruby the Liberal]

8. My house shook like crazy (and knocked a vase to the floor)

Catty Cat was asleep next to me through the whole thing. I woke her butt up and said "did you feel that!?" and she looked at me like I had 2 heads and went back to sleep. LOL

*Most* animals sense this stuff and in most cases, before the fact. Mine apparently failed *sense* school.

:D

[obxhead]

9. LOL

This last shock caught her totally by surprise.

I think she's finally snapped.

[cascadiance]

10. They mulled over doing a prequel to "The Lost Boys" movie showing "the earthquake"

... that created Keifer Sutherland's character and subsequent star of that vampire flick.

http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=7328

Perhaps instead of situating it in the older San Francisco area to show how the vampires were buried in that earthquake, perhaps we can show Eric Cantor's long lost twin vampire brother rising from a hidden crypt in Cantor's current district in Mineral, VA, to join Eric Cantor in their plan to take over the world in 2012 and make us all vampire slaves then...



BTW, when I first got power back after losing it during the Loma Prieta quake in California that was centered in Santa Cruz, CA where "The Lost Boys was earlier filmed, coincidentally, what first came on the screen when I turned my television? A cable movie viewing of "The Lost Boys"... Pretty weird coincidence at the time that perhaps others also experienced when power came on in the same area...