OMFG, earthquake!!!
Monday June 28, 2004 – 1:43 amI just saw a weather crawler about this on the tv — I want to record my thoughts before I go read about it. I TOTALLY FELT IT!! But I didn’t know that’s what it was. I was sitting cross-legged on the couch and for like twenty seconds I felt the building moving, I swear! I looked around and my floor lamp was shaking. I was thinking… what is going on? I didn’t hear any noise. It wasn’t my upstairs neighbors, there were no footsteps overhead, just this very dim rumbley feeling. Were my downstairs neighbors walking around? I couldn’t figure it out. After a little bit it stopped and I shrugged it off, thinking that yes, it probably was my downstairs neighbors stomping around. The thought did cross my mind, "damn, this building must be pretty flimsy if THAT makes the whole building shake." Okay, gonna go read and find a link now. :-)
Update: Here’s a link. BTW this is my first earthquake experience ever in my whole life. I just don’t want y’all to think I’m some kinda dumbass that I would never dream there was an earthquake even though mentally, the BUILDING WAS SHAKING and I should’ve processed that info, and gotten my ass under a doorframe!! But no, I just sat there goin’ Duh-uhhhhh– What the?? I dunno, I’m from Texas, we don’t have them thangs where I come from. Maybe next time I’ll do better, now that I know what it feels like.
Cool, they’re talking about it on TV now.
June 28th, 2004 at 4:04 am
It’s so encouraging that you can still muster a smile in the face of potential disaster :-)
June 28th, 2004 at 7:10 am
We slept right through it. All that drinkin’, don’t ya know.
June 28th, 2004 at 9:06 am
I was smilin’ because it was hours after the fact — it was seeing that weather crawler that made me go OMIGOD, THAT’S what it was!! COOL!! I sure wasn’t scared when it was happening, like I said, the word “earthquake” didn’t even cross my mind. When I first noticed, it was because the couch was moving underneath me!! And I looked at the lamp, it was shaking. But it wasn’t bad enough to even make a noise — I had muted the TV when the shaking started. There had been a bit of a domestic disturbance earlier, people yelling at each other, and I’d heard a gunshot outside my building around midnight, so I had been putting the TV on mute off and on all night trying to hear what the fuck was happening out there. So I kinda added those events together and assumed the shaking was due to people stomping. But I couldn’t hear anything, so I was all… “how is it even possible that stomping DOWNstairs would make MY COUCH go up and down?” But it wasn’t shaking *hard*, just enough to make me think I was possibly going insane.
June 28th, 2004 at 11:21 am
holy shit! i felt it too! i thought there was just a big truck out something outside my building! then i thought maybe my roommate was doing it with his girlfriend! hahaha. wow. earthquake.
June 28th, 2004 at 11:53 am
Yay, you felt it too! But dear darling Alyce, can you log in when you post? I migrated all your old comments to be associated with your new profile, I’m trying to keep all member comments grouped together now. One day they’re going to give us some code to actually do something with that, like put a linked list of people’s comments into their member profiles — you can’t really do it very easily at present but it’s on their to-do list.
I am so bummed out you’re leaving Alyce! I was going to write about it but didn’t want to go on with the kvetching about how I have no friends, nobody will hang out with me etc. But, the whole world knows you’re leaving so I might as well say something too. You’re my good dear friend and really my only gal-pal in Chicago (kinda pathetic but true) and your leaving is a pretty bummer thing for me. I’m excited for you, but I’m really going to miss you tons. :-( But as much as it bums me out to lose you as an activity-buddy, I’m really happy for you at the same time. I’m just glad I have unlimited long distance now, ha ha. :-)
June 28th, 2004 at 2:32 pm
I remmember some years ago (’87 or so?) there was an earthquake in the midwest. The ground was shaking a bit as I rode my bike around the neighborhood — it was pretty wacky, but I could barely feel it. Maybe it was a 3 or so on the Richter scale — certainly barely noticeable (a 4 is enough to cause a bit of consternation).
June 28th, 2004 at 5:03 pm
i’ve always wanted to feel an earthquake, but alas, i slept right through it. this would have been a great one to feel too. not so scary, but just a little shaking.
June 28th, 2004 at 9:52 pm
They’re weird huh! I always feel kinda other-world-ish for a bit afterwards. Get little ones here in CA quite a bit; glad I’m not near any major active faults.
June 29th, 2004 at 12:02 pm
hey there edith. first time posting here, though i have perused your site before. i quite enjoy your songs too, very much so.
anyway, i felt the earthquake too. i was sitting in the family room just watching a movie when the door to the laundry room (which leads to the garage) shook rather violently… i froze and my first thoughts were that someone was trying to break into the house. i jumped out of the chair and ran away like some frightened animal. it’s pretty funny now in hindsight. but no, ’twas just an earthquake. hah. madness. just thought i’d share.
July 2nd, 2004 at 12:16 am
teehee log in? huh? got it.
OH EDITH DON’T BE SAD. I am finally now getting to the sad point of it all, being that this is my last weekend here. This week has been nuts. I still want to get together for lunch, are you busy tommorow around 4 or 5? email me or call. Also, I would love it if you came to rainbo and did photobooth pictures with me. Any normal situation and I wouldn’t want to go hang out at rainbo on a friday night (but we’re going early!), but I definately want to get photobooth pictures with as many friends as possible. PICTURES WITH EDITH!! YESS!!!! anyway we can talk about this fri.afternoon.
July 2nd, 2004 at 12:20 am
YESSS to all the above, call me or I’ll call you. We were posting at the same time there!
July 2nd, 2004 at 12:21 am
I mean no. I’m not busy, and yes I will go the ‘Bo. ha ha
July 2nd, 2004 at 11:14 pm
I just had to comment , since I’m so far from eartquake country. But once when I was living across from the chocolate factory (yes, the Ghiradelli Chocolate tourist-trap mall on Northpoint Street in S.F.’s Marina district - which was not really a neighborhood, but more a tourist destination, where I somehow ended up living while taking film classes at S.F. Art Institute a lifetime ago) I experienced my first (and still only) earthquake. I was sitting on the toilet in my third floor walk-up shared apartment in a rickety old wooden apt. building at 991 Northpoint Street. I actually felt the bathroom sway slightly. Of course what instantly flashed through my mind was: “oh no, this is a much-too-embarrassing, bared-assed way to meet my fate in a S.F. earthquake. It wasn’t much more of an earthquake than the San Andreas Fault yawning a little… It was fifteen years before that really scary quake in 1989 where buildings and elevated concrete freeways in the East Bay actually did collapse and the Bay Bridge broke open and cars plunged into the bay, just like in a Japanese ’50’s sci-fi movie. (Deja-vu: I realize I’ve told you this story before, oh well) I was 3,000 miles away in CT when that happened, but my friends out there will never forget that one. But an earthquake in Chicago seems really weird.
July 2nd, 2004 at 11:25 pm
That’s weird ‘cuz about five minutes before you posted that, I was tripping out thinking we were having another one. I kept feeling the couch thumping or something. I’m so paranoid now, any time I feel a barely-perceptible motion in my building, I’m all OMIGOD!!
July 3rd, 2004 at 3:13 pm
OMIGOD - time to move again, to a safe, suburban one story place! My little lavatory trauma in S.F. kind’ve steered me away from making that my home town.
July 6th, 2004 at 8:41 pm
I too was awakened by the swaying of my building. Maura had gone out to her folks for the night, so I was asleep on the couch. Then everything started moving from side to side. dunno why…I just KNEW it was an earthquake. I re-awoke to discover that the epicenter was in Ottawa Illinois, which is exactly where Maura’s parents live. She and her brother and their friends had gone for quite a ride! I want another one!