Breathe in, Breathe out

[KitchenWitch]

:scared:

:yoiks:

Really want to go get the air mattress and sleep in the driveway.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. You know you are really safer in the house...

The wood creaks like crazy, but it bends and does not break...

Outside, anything could fall on you....

:hug:

[KitchenWitch]

2. I will trust that you are right... even though my logic tells me that there is nothing to fall on me

out in the driveway....

[charakter]

3. The best remedy for the stress

To breath deep 6 times every second.

[KitchenWitch]

4. Do you mean 6 times every minute?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. It's impossible to breathe that fast!

Not deeply, anyway, lol!

BTW, Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[Parche]

5. its party time!!

:woohoo: :woohoo: :party: :party: :hi: :hug:

[reyd reid reed]

7. She's right.

Safest place really is in the house. If you're nervous, sleep in a hallway or something. Away from windows or mirrors. The walls are going to bend. Outside there's a lot more (and scarier) stuff to come down.

Breathe. Just breathe.


(I used to *hate* when the earth moved when I lived out there. #1 son, though, always slept through it)

[KitchenWitch]

8. I *want* to believe that... I really do

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

9. Fear is the mind killer.

"I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain."

So it came from a sci-fi novel. It's still a worthy quote.

[ThomCat]

10. Oh no! What's happening?

Is there an earthquake?

:hug:
Please be safe.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. A very small one, my dear ThomCat!

3.5 on the Richter scale...

You'd only feel it if you were right on top of it...

Thanks, sweetie...:hug:

[ThomCat]

17. I'm glad it's minor.

Being from someplace with stable ground, that would freak me out even if it was minor.
:hug:

[KitchenWitch]

13. I am safe...

It was a 3.1, to native Californians, that is nothing. To this Minnesotan....it is freaky deaky.

[ThomCat]

18. I can totally understand.

Are the aftershocks done? I hope it's all over. :)

[KitchenWitch]

21. I have no idea.

Not sure if there will be any aftershocks.

[huskerlaw]

11. Was there an earthquake?

:shrug:

On edit: Oh yeah, there was! I didn't feel a thing.

I'm told a 3.1 is nothing. Though I know it doesn't feel like nothing to those of us from stable ground. ;)

:hug:

[KitchenWitch]

14. The epicenter was about 2 miles southwest of me

Do you ever get used to it?

[huskerlaw]

16. I haven't, but

I've only felt ONE since I moved here 2 years ago. It was about the same strength as the one you just felt and it woke me up in the middle of the night. I had a :wtf: moment and then went "oooooh...earthquake!". Kinda freaked me out a little, but I went back to sleep fairly easily.

So no, I'm not used to them. But everyone says that you do get that way eventually. The thought of them still scares the living sh*t out of me though.

[Shakespeare]

27. I always THINK I'm used to them....until I feel another one.

Then I get all freaked out again. The worst one I've felt was a 5.2 right under West Hollywood (where I live) on 9/9/01. It dominated the local news until 9/11/01 (for obvious reasons)--had some moderate damage in Westwood.

I was lying in bed taking a nap when it hit (around 5 p.m. on a Sunday afternoon); it felt like I was in a shoebox that somebody started shaking violently. Yikers.

[FloridaJudy]

15. Put your air mattress in the bathtub

Really. It's solid, the floor's reinforced under it and there's usually not a lot of stuff in there that can fall on you. It's what they recommend here for hurricanes.

Fill a bunch of buckets with water first, just in case.

Of course, if your whole house slides down a hill you're SOL anyway, but that rarely happens.

edited to add: I'd send you good vibes, but right now vibration is probably the last thing you want!

[Haole Girl]

19. I'll trade you a minor quake for a season full of tornadoes!

Hang in there!

I assume the old neighborhood is fine, right? :hug:

[KitchenWitch]

20. yes, no damage

I would take a tornado over this... seriously. At least most of the time one knows a tornado is coming.

[Haole Girl]

22. I was in El Segundo during the Whittier quake

That was a big one. Woke up to the sound of the pictures slapping back and forth against the wall.

It was over 6, if I remember... and El Segundo is on sand (pretty much like Irvine) so it has/had that "shaking jello" sensation. I was in one doorway, just staring at my roommate who was standing in her doorway. And I remember thinking to myself - very calmly - "I am going to die not being able to say a word." I laugh about it now... but when I really think about it, it was scary. :hug: Still, I hate tornadoes more!!

p.s., Sorry if you've heard that story before. I'm exhausted, but have insomnia, and I ramble when I get like this!

Here is news footage, from that one: http://video.aol.com/video-detail/6-quake-south-of-paseda-kills-4-whittier-narrows-earthquake/1081601371

[KitchenWitch]

23. I had not heard that story before...

Thankfully K slept through it. My husband was at the gym when it hit, so he did not notice it at all. Even if he had felt it, they don't faze him at all.

[Haole Girl]

24. Some people just take them in stride...

a guy in our apartment complex, when I was in Irvine (before El Segundo), used to run out into the parking lot to watch the Palm trees sway! He was a crazy dude...that one!! lol

[KitchenWitch]

25. sounds like he has the personality needed to be a storm chaser.

:hi:

[FloridaJudy]

26. How are you doing?

I've been thinking of you. Earthquakes can be effing scary.

[KitchenWitch]

28. I did not sleep for crap last night... I will be doing a lot of pausing for HALT today!

:crazy:

May hit an extra meeting tonight. Thinking I am in need, since I am letting the quake blast my serenity.