04-07-2009, 10:00 PM
(vikm) wrote:
Never been at the center of a major quake but have had some minor ones and felt larger ones from elsewhere. Every one of them has actually been "kinda fun". Like I said, they were all more like a gentle shift back and forth and none were what anyone with experience would call violent. I certainly feel for those that have had to deal with the large ones but as someone that grew up back east, it was just another "this is a little different" moment for us and luckily wasn't terrifying.
I remember...
Standing under a doorway during a "shifter" and watching the doorway deform from a rectangle into a sloping parallelogram.
Driving a car at night during a long "bouncer" and feeling the road drop out from under me.
Out hiking on a mountaintop during a "slider" and feeling my feet dragged in different directions as the earth ripped itself apart.
Waking up during a "roller" and feeling my bed slam against the wall a few times.
Yeah. Fun.
After the fact.
When I knew that I wasn't going to die from it.