Yes, well Dan nicked the title I was going to use.
So, last night I had finished my emailing and all the other palaver I do on the internet and was just closing the Mac ready to settle down. The clock on the Mac had just ticked over to 1.00am… and then it hit. The things on the shelves jangled, a badly stacked pile of books fell over (they were very very badly stacked though) and my bed shook in a very disconcerting way… all for about 5 seconds
My thought process went like this:
Something has crashed nearly… Oh Christ, terrorist attack… Earthquake? Nah… Loosing my mind… possibly?
I peered out of my bedroom curtains and watched four or five lights go on for about 30 seconds and then go off again as, I imagine, the same process was worked through. I couldn’t see any massive fireballs so I assumed the crash/attack ideas were out; and, yes, seeing the other lights go on did make me think that maybe I wasn’t crazy, but I wasn’t ready to hang my hat on the earthquake just yet. i mean, I live in England for God’s sake. As Dan says when we have extreme weather, you could fit it in most of the world’s back pockets and use it as an appetizer to their extreme weather. When we have a crisis it is always an ‘English’ crisis - you know something where we can make a mountain out of the hill of a mole.
So, as the others were trying to get back to sleep I was clicking refresh on various news sites and googling like crazy trying to find out what was going on. But it was all apparently nothing. I thought about getting up and putting the news on but after a half hour of debate with myself decide I was too tired and went to sleep.
I know a 5.2 earthquake is nothing but it frightened the life out of me - God forbid I ever be involve in a powerful one - I’ll be the one sobbing in the corner.
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