Earthquake

At approx. 1:37 am, an earthquake hit Southwest Washington State. We weren't near the epicenter, but we still felt it. The door to our bathroom rattled and creaked. The bed felt as if we'd inserted quarters to turn on the magic finger machine. The entire structure seemed to shake. I was, of course, awake. Hubby woke from a deep sleep and thought it was one of the cats.

Having been through the Northridge quake in 1971 (me) and the Loma Prieta quake in 1989 (hubby) and lots of little ones in between and since then, it was nothing new. But it was a bit strange feeling one here and not in the San Francisco Bay area where we used to live. I figured one (a bigger one) must have hit Seattle. Glad I was wrong.

The kidlets slept through the entire thing. The cats didn't seem particularly disturbed except our outdoor cat, Smalls, wanted to sleep inside and that's the first time she'd done that in weeks.

But there were a couple other cats who sat on our patio howling last night starting at 1 o'clock. Guess they must have wanted inside, too!