Did You Feel It?

I was awakened at around 4:30 am because my bed was shaking. Then I heard that sound, the sound that only an earthquake makes. I guess it comes from the resettling of buildings, trees, the ground — everything that is normally still. It's sort of a simultaneous groaning and creaking kind of noise. It's eerie and somewhat unsettling, or maybe the unsettling bit is the part where you've just felt the ground shake beneath your feet, or bed, whatever the case may be.

Just wanted to share my favorite line from the article in this morning's SFGate. Apparently, the epicenter was in Oakland, so it was stronger for people in the East Bay. My sister, who lives over there, said it was "scary." But in general, the people who monitor this stuff said it was not major.

"It was all pretty minor," said U.S. Geological Survey spokeswoman Leslie Gordon. "It didn't interrupt doughnut production."

Yes, that would have been a tragedy. ;)