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That was a big one. I was in the library when it happened, there are books everywhere. You can't even walk through the aisles. I'm home now, my electricity is back on, Dave's on his way to get Cleo, nothing broke except for a ceramic chicken and a glass pictureframe, and there's a whole bunch of water on the floor. Things could be much worse. Ironically, I was just on my way upstairs for an interview for another position in the library. I wonder if that was a sign. |
I hugged the other random woman in the bathroom at work (downtown seattle 18th floor) after it seemed we would both live. they say the quake's so deep that there probably won't be aftershocks. just in case, I'm trying to figure out how best to get over I-5 real fast. maybe I'll take a cab instead of bussing or walking like I usually do. |
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Cleo's teacher just called, everything's fine. |
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glad to hear all you guys are ok! cnn says "damage appeared widespread but not catastrophic". |
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news about the quake |
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when we were rocked around in big bear by the 5.0 that hit, i asked for another.....we got some more in way of aftershocks. it's kinda fascniating isnt it? |
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Just Fuckloads of killer snow... It pretty much has the same affect though, people still die. |
anywho, i'm alive :) peaaaaace... |
I'm glad all you rockin' people are fine. |
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But in a cabin, nearly flat to the ground, in the san bernadino mtns, wide awake...a 5.0 feels a lot stronger than you might think jizzmop |
the whole puget sound basin is like a bowl full of gravel. there's no exposed solid rock for miles around and bedrock is several thousand feet down. if it had been a rainy winter, it might have been significantly worse. |
there are now some very dramatic cracks in the plaster on my apartment walls, but the heavy mirror stayed on the wall. the manager asked about my apartment, and I said there was no major damage but could he come over and take a look at the toilet, which has been running for about a month now? everyone left work early. I wasn't too scared, but it was eerie to be in a nearly deserted office building, so I left. besides, it's been such a beautifully dry and sunny winter, and today was just another gorgeous day. I've heard l.a. has gotten three times as much rain as seattle so far this year. I walked most of the way home with a new coworker I think I'll like, and we talked about dying. after assessing the minor damage in my apartment, I went for a walk. I stopped by an unemployed friend's apartment to see if she was home. her phone message said she was alive and out getting "supplies." I left her a message. "hi, kim, I'm alive too, and I was just walking around, and I'm already bored of contemplating my own mortality, and I wanted to see if you wanted to go out for lunch. call me, bye." broadway was like a saturday, and I ate teriyaki and ice cream with two of the five friends I ran into on my walk. I later hooked up with kim and we drank too much at a local tavern. now I'm waiting for my 9 p.m. chick date to go out drinking again. what the hell, we're all gonna die anyway. |
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a friend in seattle just wrote to me, "It was like being in a car that had 4 flat tires in a windstorm (I was driving at first), followed by a sense of complete disorientation that is still there." |
that was quite a quake. freaked my dog out. |
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man. i have to crap. |
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so, what's the update from the pac northwest? |
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