Ok – So Phil already did a mini post on how boring hurricane Irene was. And even though I dont actually have pictures to accompany a post on the earthquake, I wanted to post so I have a record of probably the only earthquake I will ever be a part of.
The weekend prior to the earthquake, our roof was leaking, so I had called our landlord who in turn called the roofers and they came that morning to patch some things up. Due to all the skylights in the row house – its easy to see and hear anything happening on the roof and the workers made quite a bit of noise all morning but left by noon. Then all of a sudden, right before 2pm, there was a lot of rumbling noise. I was a little nervous, but chalked it up to roofers. But soon the noise turned into movement. We have a hanging a light in the kitchen and I had a dying vase of flowers right under it. I looked over and the light was swinging and pedals were falling off the flowers. I seriously thought our roof was coming down!!
I channeled my inner Vivica Fox:
Fast forward to about 3 minutes.
I seriously never scooped up this baby so fast. I ran to the door and was screaming for Barney, convinced I only had moments to get out of this house before the whole place fell down. I somehow managed to get a leash on the dog and out of the house in like 10 seconds. And then I saw all my neighbors on the street as well and finally realized it was an earthquake and not a roofing issue.
Yes, all you west coasters can laugh your ass off at my total freak out to a 5.8 earthquake. But my house was not built with earthquakes in mind. This home is less than a mile from us:
So, yeah. Scary stuff.
The hurricane on the other hand – not so scary. The news had us convinced we might be washed out to the bay, or at least without power for a prolonged period of time, but no dice on either. I had us stocked with water, canned goods, flashlights and beer for the long haul. and the lights didnt even flicker. the basement flooded a little – but we were anticipating that after we found some standing water down there a few weeks ago. We had already put all important items upstairs – so no damage done. I was a little bummed! Beej said we should have flipped the breaker just to live on the edge for a few hours.
Woznation 
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