Earthquake!
Call me weird, but I like earthquakes. Not the buildings-fall-down-and-people-get-killed variety, but the little ones where nothing more interesting happens than having the ground shakes a bit.
Every so often I’ll feel that sort of shaking going on under me. If I lived somewhere else, I’d probably think it was the neighbors’ washing machine being off-balance or something like that, but here in Northern California if the shaking feels just right it’s probably an earthquake. And when that happens, there’s nothing more fun than going to the USGS Hazards Program - Northern California page and seeing that yep, the little rumbling I just felt was a magnitude 3.1 quake not far from here. Neat.
Alexei Kosut Said,
September 18, 2005 @ 12:56 am
Well huh. I assumed it was the downstairs neighbors doingÂ… well, I wasn’t sure quite what, but it didn’t even occur to me that it might have been an earthquake. Cool.
SuziMoses Said,
September 18, 2005 @ 11:50 am
Sounds like me and hurricanes. (yes, I know this is a particulaly bad time to admit that I love hurricanes, but it is true. Even if politically incorrect.) The difference between hurricanes and earthquakes (other than wind and rain) being that when I’m in a 3.1 magnitude ‘cane, I’m pretty certain of it.