You likey shakey-shakey?
Earthquake. First real one.
We had that little shake one time we were in the hotel, but this is the first full blown one. Around noon today, I was at work in my cube, Kimberly at home with the girls. THings just kinda started shaking, and didn't stop for a while. Last a good half to full minute (I'll try to time the next one:) ). Pretty damn good shake.
At work, most people kinda did the prairie dog thing and popped their heads up to look around. Not much to see really, but hey you never know. I got a few catcalls - since they knew I was the foreigner who hadn't been through a real one before. Certainly does make your heartbeat jump up a bit, even while you know it's probably fine and not much to do if it isn't, anyways...
Kimberly said she saw Liz sitting and bumping her head against the wall... Then after that realized everything was shaking. Later she figured out that maybe Liz fell down from the shaking and it was the wall that was bumping Liz's head. Anyways, headed for front door, Ashley asked "Mommy, what's going on?" - don't know response, but they weathered it, watching chandelier sway back and forth, Kimberly being all stoic (while she was totally freaking out on the inside), until that too passed.
Later when Kimberly was putting Ashley down for a nap, she said "I want to take a nap in the living room where it shakes, Mommy." and then "I want it to be bumpy!" Yep, we now have a girl who loves typhoons AND earthquakes. Pretty soon we'll have child saying "Daddy, I want the chickens to sneeze on me!"
So - after the fact, we now know it was 7 at epicenter, which was about 75 miles off coast, about 4 magnitude in Taipei. Nothing crazy, but nothing to sneeze at.
Oh, and in the "what else is happening seeing as your in the land of constant natural disasters" department - we have another typhoon headed this way, and maybe another one behind it.
Good news, to temper - we should finally be getting internet access at home today. So Kimberly's non-self-imposed exile from all things WWW & email should finally be over by the time you good people wake up (Friday morning, your time).
That's about it for this edition. Keep watching the skies - and we'll see some of in just another week or so! (pending approval by any typhoon that might be over us at the time)
-a
UPDATE - The telephone people are at the apartment, so hopefully Kimberly will be online soon!
New Update - ARRGGGG. Someone at AMD gave them wrong address. :( So looks like no internet this week. Dammit.
We had that little shake one time we were in the hotel, but this is the first full blown one. Around noon today, I was at work in my cube, Kimberly at home with the girls. THings just kinda started shaking, and didn't stop for a while. Last a good half to full minute (I'll try to time the next one:) ). Pretty damn good shake.
At work, most people kinda did the prairie dog thing and popped their heads up to look around. Not much to see really, but hey you never know. I got a few catcalls - since they knew I was the foreigner who hadn't been through a real one before. Certainly does make your heartbeat jump up a bit, even while you know it's probably fine and not much to do if it isn't, anyways...
Kimberly said she saw Liz sitting and bumping her head against the wall... Then after that realized everything was shaking. Later she figured out that maybe Liz fell down from the shaking and it was the wall that was bumping Liz's head. Anyways, headed for front door, Ashley asked "Mommy, what's going on?" - don't know response, but they weathered it, watching chandelier sway back and forth, Kimberly being all stoic (while she was totally freaking out on the inside), until that too passed.
Later when Kimberly was putting Ashley down for a nap, she said "I want to take a nap in the living room where it shakes, Mommy." and then "I want it to be bumpy!" Yep, we now have a girl who loves typhoons AND earthquakes. Pretty soon we'll have child saying "Daddy, I want the chickens to sneeze on me!"
So - after the fact, we now know it was 7 at epicenter, which was about 75 miles off coast, about 4 magnitude in Taipei. Nothing crazy, but nothing to sneeze at.
Oh, and in the "what else is happening seeing as your in the land of constant natural disasters" department - we have another typhoon headed this way, and maybe another one behind it.
Good news, to temper - we should finally be getting internet access at home today. So Kimberly's non-self-imposed exile from all things WWW & email should finally be over by the time you good people wake up (Friday morning, your time).
That's about it for this edition. Keep watching the skies - and we'll see some of in just another week or so! (pending approval by any typhoon that might be over us at the time)
-a
UPDATE - The telephone people are at the apartment, so hopefully Kimberly will be online soon!
New Update - ARRGGGG. Someone at AMD gave them wrong address. :( So looks like no internet this week. Dammit.
posted by The Armstrongs at
10/15/2004
