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Yikes, That Was A BIG Earthquake! Posted By: AIsForAutism
Posted On: 07/29/2008
Hi all,
I live in North Orange County about 15 minutes north of Disneyland and about 5 miles from the epicenter of today's earthquake. I was working on my upcoming autism awareness presentation when the room started shaking and jolting. I got up to go to our doorway where we are supposed to go during quakes and could hear stuff all over the house crashing down. After less than a minute (LONG ENOUGH!) I checked out the house. Although we had shelves and cabinets fall over and things fly all over the house, I only lost a few minor items to breakage. Considering how big the jolts were (and now we are experiencing aftershocks), we did pretty well.

I can't find my cat. She is hiding somewhere. My hubby is at work and they are safe. My daughter is at the beach with her church group so I can only hope they are fine since there is nothing too dangerous there to fall and it wasn't close to the epicenter.

Anyway, I was checking in here to re-read a post by Shannon and wanted to let you know that your fellow Southern Californians should be okay...but you may want to check on them just to make sure. I checked on my senior citizen neighbors and they were "shaken" but fine. (no pun intended!)

We do get used to them here, but we also kind of get lackadaisical (?) about them when they don't occur often.

Joanna
       
AIsForAutism wrote this reply on 07/29/2008
I finally found my cat after 4 hours! She happened to be in the room that had all the glass crashing from all directions. Apparently she is a true SoCal cat b/c she just ducked and covered under the coach next to her beanbag chair. She's still hiding out since we've had aftershocks.

shannonj wrote this reply on 07/29/2008
Joanna-So glad to hear that you are okay...The earthquake reports were all over the news and I am grateful that the damage was limited...What a relief that you found your cat. I hope your whole family is reunited soon.

Motherof4 wrote this reply on 07/30/2008
I'm so glad you're okay, and that your cat knew what to do! Hope you don't have too many aftershocks. Did the church group get home okay?

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