I'm going to share with you what happened with me when the earthquake that took place this summer hit NJ. I was at my parents beach house with my mom, her friend, her friends daughter, and her friends daughters friend. So I was on the top floor of the house eating my breakfast at the counter. I was talking to my mom's friend who was eating in the kitchen and my mom was in her room. Next thing I know, I feel the whole house swaying back and forth. I felt like I was in some kind of funhouse as we shook. When it stopped, I sat in my chair confused about what had happened.
My mom's friend looked at me with a worried face and said "Chris, has that happened before". "No" I said. "What the hell was that?" I thought to myself quietly "Must have been a strong wind. But there's no way wind could shake an entire house. Maybe the structure of the house is weak and that's why the wind was able to move it. What moron would build a house so unstable that it could be moved by a gust of wind". As I pondered what had happened my mom came out of her room. "Did you guys feel that?" she asked. "Yea" we said. "Has this happened before?" my moms friend asked my mom. "No, never" my mom said. My moms friend headed for the stairs. "We need to get out of this house right now, I think we just had an earthquake" she said. "What, no way" I thought "we don't get earthquakes in NJ". The thought of an earthquake had never even entered my brain earlier. Still, I decided to follow the rest of them outside.
When we got outside others were walking out of their house. "Hey" some guy that was across from us yelled "did your house just shake?" "Yea" we said. "Mine too" he responded. "Yea" my moms friend said "we just had an earthquake". "COOL!" I thought to myself "My first earthquake". This story will be concluded in the next post.
No comments:
Post a Comment