Earthquakes and hurricanes and tornados, oh my!

Doesn’t quite have the same easy ring as lions and tigers and bears, does it?

This week has been quite interesting on the east coast geologically and meteorologically. Tuesday I was sitting at my desk at work and felt something strange. At first, it was like the slight swaying wind-like feeling when you know someone has walked behind you, only I was the only one in the tiny office. I still turned around, surprised by the sway and wondered if I was feeling ill. I work in an old building and when the kids are upstairs playing in the program space it always seems like sooner or later one of them will fall through the ceiling and land in my lap. I’m used to that now. But when the shaking started I honestly thought the ceiling would collapse on me and ran out into the hallway. I was properly shocked and slightly frightened. The program coordinator walked out of the office across the hall and we looked at each other, stunned. We stepped outside and noticed other shop keeps in the neighborhood were wandering out as well. “Did you feel that?” was on everyone’s lips. At first I thought there was a very low flying plane or some construction truck ramming into the building, but when it wouldn’t stop I thought, “No way! An earthquake?”  The moment we realized what it was – it stopped.