I forgot to mention the Earthquake!
Yes I know that if you’re from California, British Columbia or Japan, you’re probably laughing now and wondering why I’ve even mentioned it! Just for the sake of anyone who reads this and who doesn’t live in England, we are in the middle of a tectonic plate and earthquakes rarely happen here, especially anything as big as a “five point twoer”.
I was still working on a website at 0057hrs when my other half asked if I could feel something. I felt a vigorous shaking of the desk and wall and a deep and distant rumble. I looked at her suspiciously, but she wasn’t doing anything… The house wobbled like it was sitting on a huge plate of jelly and the shaking subsided. (Luckily the house didn’t subside)!
“That,” I thought sensibly, “was an earthquake.” I noted the time and we went to bed.
I checked the Internet news first thing in the morning to ensure that I still maintained my sanity. Confirmation on the BBC News left me with a warm, relaxed, earthquake-hardened man-of-the-world feeling!
I have to admit, I slept the whole way through the earthquake. My mum came and woke me up the next morning. “OMG Rachael did you feel the earthquake?!” “What earthquake?”
It’s scary, yet kinda cool, that we had an earthquake here.
By: Rachael on Friday, 29 February, 2008
at 5:27 pm
I had never ever feel an earthquake since ever I’ve been living here, in Vietnam.
The country is like your’s too, on a plate therefore earthquakes rarely happen. Also, there are absolutely no volcanoes here.
By: Baohan on Monday, 10 March, 2008
at 2:07 pm