Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Earthquake

Those of us in the eastern part of the country have earthquake stories today! For many, today's earthquake was their first, as they do not occur often here and are rare  to be of such magnitude in this region of the country.
I was in a dollar store talking with a friend.  She leaned slightly on a shelf in the paper goods section, and the shelf shifted.  I said, "Girl, stop leaning on that shelf, it might fall."  We chuckled; neither one of us had an idea of what was happening.  At the same time, I heard what I thought was an airplane flying over the store, and I also felt a little dizzy. I thought it was hunger, since I was overdue to eat my lunch.  We paid for our purchases and walked to the parking lot, still chatting.  There, a man asked us, "Did you ladies feel anything during the earthquake?  My car was shaking as I drove here!"  We replied that we knew nothing about an earthquake.  It was not until we got to our homes that we realized what we experienced  in the dollar store was an earthquake's tremor! Wow! I am so thankful it was not worse.
Do you have an earthquake story for today?
Take care,
Sylvia

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