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Baraka_Guru · 06-23-2010, 12:15 PM

OMG, so I'm not losing my mind!

I felt it in my home office (the main floor of a 10-storey building). I felt the desk and floor beneath me vibrate, and then the flimsy shelf behind me rattle against the wall. I kinda had a mild panic and headed to the back patio to see what was up.

When I got there, nothing was happening anymore. I returned to my office and thought that maybe I was hallucinating from drinking too much iced tea all at once.

In hindsight, I remember feeling the tremors (the floor shook slightly, and my desk was kind of rocking side to side—at first I thought I was losing it and passing out or something) and noticing the plant on the top of the shelf waving its heavy leaves at me, but then I thought it could have been a combination of the wind coming in through the window and someone doing some kind of repair work above me.

It was all very weird. When it happened it felt like a small quake, but in hindsight it was all very dreamlike.

That said, quakes here are rare indeed, and seldom go above 3.0 (dish-rattlers). This one was a "doozy" for us I guess.

06-23-2010, 12:15 PM	#2 (permalink)
Baraka_Guru warrior bodhisattva Super Moderator Location: East-central Canada	OMG, so I'm not losing my mind! I felt it in my home office (the main floor of a 10-storey building). I felt the desk and floor beneath me vibrate, and then the flimsy shelf behind me rattle against the wall. I kinda had a mild panic and headed to the back patio to see what was up. When I got there, nothing was happening anymore. I returned to my office and thought that maybe I was hallucinating from drinking too much iced tea all at once. In hindsight, I remember feeling the tremors (the floor shook slightly, and my desk was kind of rocking side to side—at first I thought I was losing it and passing out or something) and noticing the plant on the top of the shelf waving its heavy leaves at me, but then I thought it could have been a combination of the wind coming in through the window and someone doing some kind of repair work above me. It was all very weird. When it happened it felt like a small quake, but in hindsight it was all very dreamlike. That said, quakes here are rare indeed, and seldom go above 3.0 (dish-rattlers). This one was a "doozy" for us I guess. __________________ Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing? —Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön Humankind cannot bear very much reality. —From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 06-23-2010 at 12:19 PM..