My legs were wobbly.
The world was spinning.
OK, that was the morning after my season-ending ball party.
But it was a similar feeling this afternoon as an earthquake hit the Ottawa Valley.
About every 20 years a rumble passes through the Valley that measures on the Richter scale.
Mostly, it irritates Valley folk because it spooks the livestock and your pets, and makes your beer go foamy.
This quake shook for a good 20 or 30 seconds - and it was actually pretty cool to be a part of it.
No one was hurt. No major damage. No foamy beer (I was at work - no beer for me. And FYI: scotch doesn't froth up when shaken.)
Other parts of the world live in danger of quakes destroying their lives on a regular basis.
Here, having something give us a little shake, rattle and roll every couple of
decades isn't a bad thing.And hopefully in the next week or two I'll be able to coax my beagle out from under the bed.
If you want to see a Google map of the epicenter of the quake, click here.
PHOTO AT RIGHT: After the quake, the street in front of my house looks nothing like this one.
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My personal Pros and Cons of having been a part of the earthquake.
ReplyDeleteCon: I work in an office attached to a nuclear facility!!! Scary.
Pro: I work in an office attached to a nuclear facility so they immediately evacuated, accounted for each person, gave us beverages, and then sent us home.
Pro: I got a paid afternoon off of work!
Pro: The deeply buried adrenaline junkie in me got her fix.
I guess that's about it.