Thursday, August 25, 2011

Earthquake

Hi everyone!  I haven't posted in a while.  I also realize that the title fore this post is irrelevant to my blog, but I thought this was pretty important.  So, two days ago, me, my mom, my siblings, my cousin, my aunt, and my grandmother all went out to eat.  We thought about going to this old- ish resturant called the "Armadillo" but decided not to.  So we went to this other place.   We had just ordered our food (keep in mind, we were at an old building) then the lights started swinging.  At first I thought  a big truck or something was zooming by and the wind from it shook the building, but the lights were flickering, which was wierd.  Then it hit me: this was is an earthquake.  The walls, the floorboards, the game and knick-knacks on the shelves, the chairs and tables, everything was shaking. It did that for a few seconds, then it settled down.  We ran outside because my aunt thought the building might colapse.  She's been in an earthquake before so apparently she knew what she was talking about.  We thought the earthquake only occoured where we were,  but my brother got a text  from his friend who was about 34 miles away sayng "Did you feel that?"  and same with my sister, so it didn't just happen where we were.  I was pretty freaked out at that point.  A couple  of buildings were cracked, and one if them was the "Armadillo".  Freaky, huh?  We tried calling and texting, and we had full reception, but it didn't work.  It was because everyone was trying to call and text people.  We wen back to the resturaunt, but ate outside so we could run if there was an after-shock.  While we were  eating, my aunt googled the earthquake, and it turns out, it struck the ENTIRE east coast and the epicenter was all the way in Virginia.  And this was only halve as strong as the one in Haiti.  That earthquake was on unforgetable moment.