Fünf auf der nach oben offenen Richterskala

[muckefuck]

goodboi asked for earthquake stories, so I borried me one from a co-worker. (Due to poor scheduling, I was asleep when this one struck, just as I was for the two before it. Why couldn't it have hit at 4:37 in the p.m., when it would've added to the festive atmosphere of a Friday afternoon?) She's originally from Little Egypt (this is the one I told y'all about who used to eat dirt) and her mother still lives down there. The old lady must not be doing too well, because she has a hospital bed at home. In any case, she woke up a little after 5 a.m. this morning and noticed it shaking (aftershocks?), so she got up and unplugged it (on the assumption that it was malfunctioning somehow), and went back to sleep!

My co-worker Pablo watched the t.v. news this morning and felt a certain empathy for the hapless reporters dispatched to the south of the state searching behind bales and under bushels for any sign of telegenic damage and coming up empty-handed. I've yet to call my relatives down in STL to find out whether any irreplaceable figurines fell off high shelves, or baked-playdo frames from the wall.

Comments

[oh-meow.livejournal.com]

We had one a few weeks ago, and our bed is next to the boiler cupboard (only place it can go - sloping attic ceilings) and the boiler is old and creaky and generally inefficient. I woke up to weird shaking and creaking noises and was convinced that the boiler was about to explode, and tried to wake my boyfriend up, but he was all mmmfffmmm and wouldn't wake up, and then it stopped and I went back to sleep. It was nice to find out it was just an earthquake and I didn't have to worry about the possibility of being showered in boiling water.

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

Heilige Kuh! 5 richter earthquake in Chicagoland? How often does that happen?

[cpratt.livejournal.com]

Wait. You're an EN fan?

[decamerenne.livejournal.com]

Good album.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Ist ja jeder, nicht?

[cpratt.livejournal.com]

This is still the best thing they've done since Als Hitler das rosarota Kaninchen stahl.

[bwillsouth.livejournal.com]

Let me add my voice to the chorus at "hey, you like EN?"

I might have to put that album on right now.

[itchwoot.livejournal.com]

Ich nicht. Ich kenne aber auch nur "Stella Maris", wie ich zu meiner Schande gestehen muss.