I meant to post this on April 15th...
On Saturday afternoon, we had a big earthquake here!
The official
report was that it was only a 5.5, but even the USGS reported that “violent’ shaking
was felt in many areas. Mine was one of those. I was in the kitchen when it
happened, and I could see my range bouncing up and down and I could hear things
falling all around my house. All day yesterday, I would spot things around my
house that had been knocked over. And everything hanging on my walls was crooked. But nothing of any consequence was actually broken. A little super
glue and I was back to normal…
But…
My neighbor is
on the mainland this week and I’m watching his house. He has/had a collection
of beer glasses on a high shelf. Yeah…. I spent yesterday afternoon cleaning up
broken glass. I can say with certainty that when a beer glass falls 8 feet onto
a tile floor, it breaks into a billion pieces. I wasn’t cleaning up shards
of glass, it was more like glass dust.
It’ll be a long
time before he can walk barefoot in his kitchen.
Fortunately, this earthquake had nothing to do with the volcano. It's not coming back to life... yet...
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