deep breath.....okay, exhale...20 seconds

oh boy....
i really want to call home,
but of course it would be the middle of the night and you would be worried if i did...
but we just had an earthquake...
the biggest one yet (that i have experienced), it last a good 15 to 20 seconds...
i know this doesn't seem long...but with the errie-ness of the earth moving beneath you...it's long enough.

i woke early yesterday morning and thought it was simply the wind, but checked below (the link) and it was a quake...a tremor in comparison to what just happened. no everything is fine yet indescribeable, but seriously uneasy feeling...i even have that woozie feeling after an elevator ride.

weird.

(p.s. even the big black housefly living in the walkway is a bit shaken it seems...)

http://www.geonet.org.nz/recent_quakes.html

(p.s.s....in savannah and greenville we had hurricane parties...why aren't we having earthquake parties??? perhaps they come with no real warning....but actually, i think i heard the club down the street just give a big shout....shout another kiwi word)


shout: to buy, to treat one, to celebrate. (ex. we just had a quake...i'll shout you a beer)
http://www.nz-immigration.co.nz/lifestyles/slang-words.html