Duh! I always thought one of the great things about this country was that it was flat. You know, all the volcanic activity and shifting of earth underground was over and done with eons ago. 'Ooh no' sez I.
You would never catch me living anywhere there are tornadoes all the time, or earth tremors or wotnots.
I love a sunburnt country, the land of stable plains.
I blame Frankston. Seriously. Never ever ever felt a tremor before in my life. Sometimes The Other would say we just had a tremor and I would say "Bollards" and not believe. Now I'm a convert.
It happens regularly here, sez The Other, going on about some plate, platter or trifle dish.
Most reports vary about how long it lasted. I know exactly - the time it took for The Other to tell Maude to stop scratching, realise it wasn't Maude making the house rattle, and run downstairs to find a safe spot under a doorway.
What would I know about doorways? I was sitting here in my study when it began, and had no idea I was supposed to know what was happening. It's good being slower than a wet week and close to the bluntest knife in the drawer [thanks Windsmoke], cos I didn't have time to get concerned.
Of course, I'm still shaking, but that's probably just because it's so darned cold here right now. [Looking forward very much to the winter solstice].
Only one question remains... whose 'fault' is it? Julia? Tony? Ted? La Gina? The public transport system?
Never been in an earthquake before, eh?
ReplyDeleteVery funny post.
After nearly 8 years in Frankston there was only one previous occasion when I actually felt a teeny tiny itsy bitsy wiggle causing just one umptieth of the movement this house gets in a high wind. I was a doubting Thomasina til then, but still blithely unconcerned.
DeleteI love the dry tone in your comment. In fact you sound so blase about it I won't rush out to buy the idiot's guide to "how to stay safe and unruffled during an earth tremor".
However... just to be on the safe side I might have to stick closer to Maude. She reportedly gave The Other a greasy look for accusing her of scratching, but no low growl of warning as on the day of the great hot water pipe disaster. Dogs know these things.
Airplanes? No wurries. Boats? No wurries. The only thing I fear more than earthquakes is 'the scoops'.
Yep, i felt the earth move last night to. Its just mother nature flexing her muscles letting us know she is still around and able to rock 'n' roll our world when ever she feels like it :-).
ReplyDelete"Whenever she feels like it". Hmm, sounds like a capricious, grumpy, punch-drunk old hag. I bet she's divorced.
DeleteToo funny! I live on a fault zone too, the only one we really 'felt' I didn't, the parrot went nuts tho!
ReplyDeleteI would hate it if anything happened to that beautiful place where you live. Now, talking about parrots... I guess there was no bird noise because it was late at night. [In face, at first I thought there was a whole party of possums hosting a house warming on the roof].
DeleteWhereas if it happened in the day time there is a good chance some kookaburras might have been laughing at my expense.
LOL
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about a week ago that we were due for another rocking after last year's effort and Mother Nature didn't disappoint!
Who's fault?
All of the above whom you mentioned, in triplicate, with bells on, of course ;)
Ah... the power of thought!
DeleteStop that right now!
It is the second one of have experienced here. Our building seems to bounce up and down. But I have felt other very minor tremors, almost just vibration, that have not been reported.
ReplyDeleteStrangely enough, I would feel safe in a high rise,because I've been told they've been engineered for flexibility.
DeleteYour last line cracked me up.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you're okay.
Better you should crack up than a high rise apartment building.
DeleteThank you for your concerned wishes, Dina.
I blame the government.
ReplyDelete:)
Aha! A wise and knowing man!
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