We, along with folks from Canada to North Carolina, had the exciting sensation of feeling a 5.8 magnitude earthquake and living to tell! Like most folks, by God's Grace, we had no damage or injury. Best of all, we experienced this with Tim and Kristy which made it even more of an adventure.We were all sitting in the living room when we felt the couches and the room rolling in WAVES.We all looked at each other with shock and exclaimed "Earthquake!!!! Get out of the house!!!!!! I ran to get the napping little guy and out we ran.
Apparently, that must be the instinctive natural reaction because that's what everyone did, including Jeff and Chelsea in D.C. where people were spilling out of the buildings into the streets. Apparently, Jeff was texting and posting to Facebook as he ran down the stairs "Earthquake! Repent!" A little later when the All Clear was realized, he updated his status " False Alarm,, Nevermind..."
We got out into the yard and then realized that our campfire, extinguished by hose three nights earlier, had spontaneously started smoking and then caught up into flames. There must have been a lot of heat trapped underneath it and the earthquake shook things up enough to rekindle the fire.
Tori, like everyone else on the East Coast, attempted to contact friends and loved ones. The phone service was JAMMED for twenty minutes as folks checked to see if their neighbors felt it. When we turned on the TV and saw that it had been felt in Canada, we were amazed
The G-man demonstrated again and again by shaking this fountain drink back and forth what had happened.
He actually told me as I grabbed him out of his bed immediately after it happened that it had woken him up because his bed was shaking and he moved his body to show me. This was the first earthquake my own family has ever experienced. Although we didn't actually feel it, one of our deerhead mounts fell off the wall striking a lamp at the same time that an aftershock was recorded. It was a very memorable experience.
