EARTHQUAKE!!!

[heartofkudzu]

i just experienced my first real earthquake!
The scene: It's about 11:45 in the morning. I am sitting on the couch, watching "How the Earth Was Made" on the Discovery channel and reading the Image section of the Sunday LA Times. All of a sudden I hear a big rumbling, but at first I thought it was the upstairs neighbors doing something crazy (they

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[beckon_you_on]

No, haha, it doesn't make you crazy. A lot of people think they are exciting and fun. I think aftershocks can be, I never particularly enjoyed the big jolt of the kind that send you under a desk or out the door. Come to think of it, just about every sizable earthquake I've been through woke my ass up at some ridiculous hour!

[noodz]

We have a lot of (smaller) earthquakes up here in Oregon and Washington too and I always thought they were kinda fun and exciting, until I was in a really big and terrifying one in Olympia in 2001. I thought I was going to die that time, and ever since then even the smallest earthquake makes me panic!

save the booze! hah.

[foxy_manacle]

yeah, that was my first (scary) earthquake. eep.

[somniloquous]

[nyaflip]

Glad you are safe and no, its not strange to find it exciting. I had my first one in 1st grade when I lived in CA and it was kind of surreal. Anyhow, LOL about the housedress comment.