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My life is becoming a SyFy movie
Aug. 23rd, 2011 03:46 pmOkay, so I'm a little freaked. Which is probably hilarious to those of you who live in places that get actual earthquakes (I can imagine Crys and Ash laughing already) but whatever. We don't get earthquakes! I just told ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rowanmikaio a couple days ago that we've had two small earthquakes in the last hundred years, which is enough for me.
This morning, me and Chloe watched the Power Rangers movie, and I was napping on the couch while she was downstairs playing Xbox with the boys, so when the tremor happened, at first I thought it was just some weird part of my dream because of the movie, then I thought maybe it was a storm or something (we've never had high enough winds to shake this house, but it used to happen at the old house all the time) but it was perfectly sunny outside and the trees were all perfectly calm. I decided it was ME and a reaction to my meds or a hallucination or something when both my cell and the house phone started ringing.
Richmond is about three hours from me. I measure distance in time, lol, but looking it up, there are about 161 Miles / 259 Km between Roanoke and Richmond. And the earthquake was a 5.8 centered outside Richmond but from friends I'm hearing it was felt from NC to NY on the East Coast, as well as in PA and MI. (Sidenote: this is the largest recorded earthquake in VA since 1897.)
What's bothering me is that we've had three sinkholes on the local section of interstate in the last WEEK. I wouldn't claim to know anything about tectonic plates or about what's under the surface of the land or whatever, especially in other places, but I do know what's underneath this part of Virginia. Caverns and limestone caves. Lots and lots of them. It's not solid. This is why we don't have a lot of houses with basements that are actually underground more than a couple feet, and why digging is always an iffy prospect because you never know when you're gonna hit a patch of nothing. In the Dixie Caverns tour (which I do have memorized, thank you very much - we love Dixie Caverns, esp the year round steady temperature), there's a huge boulder that is held in what looks like a precarious spot by only a small piece of stalagmite. Even a small tremor could cause that rock to shift, which would block the current entrance to the cavern. So imagining that underneath ALL of the valley is kinda freak-inducing.
More pictures of local tourist caverns, which are actually awesomely pretty when I don't think about the fact they're actually underneath me, lol:
Natural Bridge Caverns
Luray Caverns
Skyline Caverns
(Note, we're all okay, other than me being freaked. Chloe and Ronnie and Davey didn't even notice anything. Stupid Xbox.)
rowanmikaio a couple days ago that we've had two small earthquakes in the last hundred years, which is enough for me. This morning, me and Chloe watched the Power Rangers movie, and I was napping on the couch while she was downstairs playing Xbox with the boys, so when the tremor happened, at first I thought it was just some weird part of my dream because of the movie, then I thought maybe it was a storm or something (we've never had high enough winds to shake this house, but it used to happen at the old house all the time) but it was perfectly sunny outside and the trees were all perfectly calm. I decided it was ME and a reaction to my meds or a hallucination or something when both my cell and the house phone started ringing.
Richmond is about three hours from me. I measure distance in time, lol, but looking it up, there are about 161 Miles / 259 Km between Roanoke and Richmond. And the earthquake was a 5.8 centered outside Richmond but from friends I'm hearing it was felt from NC to NY on the East Coast, as well as in PA and MI. (Sidenote: this is the largest recorded earthquake in VA since 1897.)
What's bothering me is that we've had three sinkholes on the local section of interstate in the last WEEK. I wouldn't claim to know anything about tectonic plates or about what's under the surface of the land or whatever, especially in other places, but I do know what's underneath this part of Virginia. Caverns and limestone caves. Lots and lots of them. It's not solid. This is why we don't have a lot of houses with basements that are actually underground more than a couple feet, and why digging is always an iffy prospect because you never know when you're gonna hit a patch of nothing. In the Dixie Caverns tour (which I do have memorized, thank you very much - we love Dixie Caverns, esp the year round steady temperature), there's a huge boulder that is held in what looks like a precarious spot by only a small piece of stalagmite. Even a small tremor could cause that rock to shift, which would block the current entrance to the cavern. So imagining that underneath ALL of the valley is kinda freak-inducing.
More pictures of local tourist caverns, which are actually awesomely pretty when I don't think about the fact they're actually underneath me, lol:
Natural Bridge Caverns
Luray Caverns
Skyline Caverns
(Note, we're all okay, other than me being freaked. Chloe and Ronnie and Davey didn't even notice anything. Stupid Xbox.)
