EARTHQUAKE!

Wow, who would have thought it! This afternoon, a little before 2 p.m., I was standing outside my cubicle at work on the 8th floor, hanging up some new pictures...the building started shaking. My first thought was that a transformer exploded or something along those lines. I went to the closest shelter-in-place area, but since the ground was still shaking I decided to run back, grab my purse and phone, and get to the stairs and get the he** out of there. I was truly scared - later, my co-workers said that by the look on my face, they knew they should get out. Glad I could be of service. LOL.

As it turns out, it was 5.8 on the Richter scale - not huge, but wow. The strongest earthquake in Virginia since 1897, it was centered about 90 miles southwest of Washington, D.C. As I left the building, I was able to check Twitter momentarily and saw people in other places asking if people had felt the earthquake...so then I knew that wow, yes it really was an earthquake we just went through. The quake was felt as far south as South Carolina, and all the way into NYC and up into Canada too. Again, WOW is about all I can come up with.

As it happens, Tod and the kids are in Ekalaka visiting Tod's family. I was thankful to not have them to worry about, since phones were not working, internet wasn't working - I would really have panicked not knowing if they were safe. There was hardly any damage in our area, no one was really hurt - how fortunate we all are.

That was definitely the strangest thing that I've ever experienced...and if given a choice, I'd like to never experience it again!