It’s funny that I completely forgot to blog about this when it happened.<\/p>\n
Yesterday at a little before 2:00 PM I was sitting at my desk. I was deep in thought about an up-coming event. I was thinking hard about how I was going to solve an interesting challenge with a few Herbie cars.<\/p>\n
I heard some sounds that I would describe as a quiet, but deep, booming. Like you might feel\/hear if someone was running down a hallway next to the room you were in. Then everything went really quiet and my chair started to shake. For a second I actually thought somebody in the next cubicle over was just jumping around or something. Sometimes, up here on the entertainment floor, people do strange things. Then\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the shaking got a little heavier and it was clear that this was an earthquake.<\/p>\n
I could hear a few surprised “is that an earthquake?” sort of noises coming from some other cubicles in the area. Then all of the sudden my heart started to pound. You see\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I have been in many kinds of weather related scary situations. A hurricane, driving in blizzards, torrential rain, flooding\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 but none of them made me as shaky as this quake (no pun indented). It honestly made my palms sweat.<\/p>\n
I spun my chair around and contemplated running to a doorway while I sucked my thumb and cried like a little girl. Thankfully my adult brain kicked into gear as I asked my cell mate cubicle roomie if he had been in an earthquake before. He’s lived in CA all his life so he laughed a bit and said cool as a cucumber “ok\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 this is where it’s either going to go away, or get worse” I gulped dryly and he said “ok, it’s over”. But friends\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 it wasn’t over. The building was still rocking back and forth when he said that. I was still fighting off the thumb sucking when it finally stopped.<\/p>\n
All in all it was about 30 seconds out of my life. It was my first quake (this point is actually not true since there was one on Sunday\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 but I was asleep when it happened and didn’t believe Janey when she told me about it) and it convinced me that I should stock up on bottled water and gasoline. Maybe I will start hoarding canned goods as well.<\/p>\n
For now though friends, I am ok. No more shaking for me, and life is back to normal.<\/p>\n
Thanks for reading.
\nR.<\/p>\n
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