Cadre,
These are weird times. What a week it has been for most of us. But I just wanted to say, and express my day yesterday. This is also a away I am trying to cope with it.
Last night I was awake at my normal time since this all started of 6AM. A quick shower, teeth brushing, clothes on, some quick morning prayers, and grabbing some coffee. I headed downstairs into the basement where my at home office is. I was logged on around 6:30AM and started like I do every morning listening to an audio book and going through my emails. 7:09 is when it hit. The epicenter has been updated and it was 8.6 miles from my house to the north. The quake measured at a 5.7. Now we live on fault lines we have always been told to prepare and have ran many drills in school and work. But man once it hits fight and flight kick in that's for sure. So anyways when it started I heard loud banging and a lot of noise. I honestly thought my wife fell down the stairs or in the shower. I jumped up and started running upstairs. Then I saw pictures falling, and my wife's willow tree collection slide off the shelf, that's when I knew it was an earthquake, I met my wife in the hallway up an additional flight of stairs where we locked eyes and she ran into Sadie's room laying on top of her, and I ran into Connor's room and laid on him. This all happened in apparently 17 seconds. It felt like minutes though I swear. At this moment I knew we needed to get out of the house so we all loaded into the minivan and backed it out of the garage and sat with the heat on, yea it was raining too and really cold. While in the van the aftershocks started. Lots of rumbling. We sat there for about 45 min. That is when I went and checked gas lines and left wife and kids in car. Everything looked good. I tried to pick up big things and then brought the family back inside.
The aftershocks lasted all day. Measuring up to the highest being 3.8. Then in the afternoon at 1:12PM a 4.6 magnitude hit, and we were all in the kitchen and quickly got under the table. This lasted for 10 seconds of shaking and it felt pretty intense. We ended up back outside for 30 min. And i then checked everything once again and brought the family back inside. One teddy bear tipped over their teacup. So the damage was minimal here. After that the aftershocks have dwindled. One 3.5 this morning. but nothing crazy. They are being spaced out a lot too. We have had 115 aftershocks above 1.5 since writing this.
The big thing is I have now recognized that if we were not all at home and this transpired on a normal day the whole family would have been split up. So going to get religious here real quick but praise the lord that my family was together.
Anyways I want to thank this community! Multiple people reached out to me and checked in through out the day. I was scared, and was trying to be strong for my family. You all helped me. Thank you!
Well I am getting ready to go get on a conference call so I am sure there are typos above but I hope it makes sense. I love this community! Thank you!
We will all get through this, I will get the invoices out as soon as I can. I am hoping to be doing it soon! I actually had plans to do it yesterday. Thanks again to those of you that are signed up for being extremely patient!
Thanks,
Chad
These are weird times. What a week it has been for most of us. But I just wanted to say, and express my day yesterday. This is also a away I am trying to cope with it.
Last night I was awake at my normal time since this all started of 6AM. A quick shower, teeth brushing, clothes on, some quick morning prayers, and grabbing some coffee. I headed downstairs into the basement where my at home office is. I was logged on around 6:30AM and started like I do every morning listening to an audio book and going through my emails. 7:09 is when it hit. The epicenter has been updated and it was 8.6 miles from my house to the north. The quake measured at a 5.7. Now we live on fault lines we have always been told to prepare and have ran many drills in school and work. But man once it hits fight and flight kick in that's for sure. So anyways when it started I heard loud banging and a lot of noise. I honestly thought my wife fell down the stairs or in the shower. I jumped up and started running upstairs. Then I saw pictures falling, and my wife's willow tree collection slide off the shelf, that's when I knew it was an earthquake, I met my wife in the hallway up an additional flight of stairs where we locked eyes and she ran into Sadie's room laying on top of her, and I ran into Connor's room and laid on him. This all happened in apparently 17 seconds. It felt like minutes though I swear. At this moment I knew we needed to get out of the house so we all loaded into the minivan and backed it out of the garage and sat with the heat on, yea it was raining too and really cold. While in the van the aftershocks started. Lots of rumbling. We sat there for about 45 min. That is when I went and checked gas lines and left wife and kids in car. Everything looked good. I tried to pick up big things and then brought the family back inside.
The aftershocks lasted all day. Measuring up to the highest being 3.8. Then in the afternoon at 1:12PM a 4.6 magnitude hit, and we were all in the kitchen and quickly got under the table. This lasted for 10 seconds of shaking and it felt pretty intense. We ended up back outside for 30 min. And i then checked everything once again and brought the family back inside. One teddy bear tipped over their teacup. So the damage was minimal here. After that the aftershocks have dwindled. One 3.5 this morning. but nothing crazy. They are being spaced out a lot too. We have had 115 aftershocks above 1.5 since writing this.
The big thing is I have now recognized that if we were not all at home and this transpired on a normal day the whole family would have been split up. So going to get religious here real quick but praise the lord that my family was together.
Anyways I want to thank this community! Multiple people reached out to me and checked in through out the day. I was scared, and was trying to be strong for my family. You all helped me. Thank you!
Well I am getting ready to go get on a conference call so I am sure there are typos above but I hope it makes sense. I love this community! Thank you!
We will all get through this, I will get the invoices out as soon as I can. I am hoping to be doing it soon! I actually had plans to do it yesterday. Thanks again to those of you that are signed up for being extremely patient!
Thanks,
Chad
Stay safe!
