I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

LOL Blue!

Well, I was visiting my dad in DC and the couch started shaking and pictures were falling off the walls...he continued to sit on the couch and drink his coffee saying "Looks like an earthquake."

Athena .. this didn't feel like a rolling earthquake like the kind we get in California.  It was more of a shaker.  Just kind've shook things up a bit.  It did unnerve my dogs though!

At first I thought it was a big truck going down the road .. it felt like a rumble kind of thing.

Ang .. your dad is so calm!

Has anyone heard from Enjoyful or Libby?  Enjoyful had a bone scan this afternoon and Libby should be just about done with her surgery by now.

hugs,

Bren

Ang7 ... your Dad must be from a part of the country that is used to earthquakes?  We have them so seldom in the midwest we mostly just run around saying 'what was that' - 'did you feel that'.  Honestly, I didn't think the east coast ever had them.

I grew up by an Air Force base and the first time I felt an earthquake I thought it was a sonic boom. 

Can't swim and don't want to get eaten by sharks so I'll just have to move further to the left and keep my feet on solid ground.

I can believe it was our own E Sparkplug trying out her superpowers      

Libby is going to have an excellent 'surgery story' ... but will have to admit she slept through the whole thing.  I'm thinking her surgery should be done before too much longer.  Sending you (((hugs))) if you read here later Libby.

ETA - Sunflowers ... prices are down right now and they don't think they will stay down??

The funny thing is my dad is from Pennsylvania!

He has lived many different places throughout his life...

My daughter said all 3 dogs were totally going bananas about 10 minutes before it happened.

I was sitting in a waiting room on the south shore of lake Ontario, and felt quivering for about 5-6 seconds.  I honestly thought it was me having some kind of a weird semi-seizure!  Then found out about the earthquake on the radio on the drive home.  Whew!  Speaking of past quakes in these parts -- in about 1990 there was one in the Laurentians in Quebec, and I felt it in Toronto.  Also slept through a 6.0 aftershock a few days after the big quake in Northridge, CA in the early 90's.  Too much libation the night before maybe?

Anyhow, we've heard that HL's surgeons didn't lose their footings today, and her surgery should be over very soon.  Whew again! 

Hillck, In real life, I don't know. It would be interesting to find out. I would imagine that they may react like other animals and sense that something is off before the event is felt by humans. I could imagine them feeling restless and curling their tails. They are mostly plains dwellers, though, so I don't know that they experience quakes very often - at least in their shrunken habitat of today.

Huh Bren? I didn't feel it. You are much closer to the epicenter. 

HL, if by chance you are reading this (((((congrats))))) - fine day to get surgery, eh? Lol! 

((( Barbara )))  So sorry you are in the land of hotter than hell!  Corona sounds good .. hold the lime. hahaha!

hugs  buddy,
Bren

Barbara, tracking info says your other bottles were delivered in FL this afternoon!  So they should be waiting for you when you finish your 140 hours of torture  So sorry you had to make this trip.

Word from E is that surgery continues -- all is going well, but slowly (maybe they started late?).

Hugs to HappyLibby and DH -- and (((((Enjoyful)))))

and (((((((((everyone))))))))

Still in surgery?  hhmmnn...wonder if the earthquake interrupted things?  Must have been terrifying for the docs -

Just found out a friend lives very near "epicenter" - waiting to her from her.  Friends in DC are all checking their hot water heaters - thanks to River_Rat!  Some broken dishes, pictures off walls, but nothing serious.

Seems the Washington Monument, inspected by helicopter, has damage on top - also the top of a steeple on the National Cathedral came down.  Friend in Dc said it felt like a HUGE train running under their building - then they realized there WAS no train/metro under building.

Athena, hope you have a long night's sleep.  Just about to finish Emperor of All Maladies. 

rosemary-------SKYDIVING!!!!!!  Hugs and Safe Hugs for everyone. Im native Californian and I dont ever wish anyone an earthquake.  I feel bad you all had so short of a time at NOTL. I can imagine how tired you all must have been because I got tired just enjoying from here.

Thanks, ((((((((Enjoyful))))))) !  Sleep tight!