so, I live in Los Angeles and we had a pretty big earthquake the other day. It actually registered as a 5.4 on the scale, which is pretty big in the scheme of things! But, for those of you that have never been in one, I thought I would kind of explain wha it was like from my point of view.
So, I was just sitting with one of my friends on our couch watching TV. She's from Nashville and was just out in LA for the week, so she's really not used to things like that happening. So, we were just sitting there watching tv when all of sudden the house just starting rumbling. It wasn't like a violent shake, but it was kind of like if a big 18 wheel truck drives right by your house. I initially thought it was a plane flying over head. So, it did that for about 5 seconds and then started to build and build. It got up to a pretty violent shake. Now, I didn't really react too amazingly on my feet, because all I didn was sit there, look at my friend, and say, "I think it's an earthquake." You're supposed to get up in stand in a doorway, but I just sat there and smiled. It was really shaking for about 10-15 seconds, and I started to get a little bit worried. At first it's kind of fun and exciting, but you start to get to the point where you start thinking that it's not going to stop. Thankfully, right when I started thinking that, it started to slow down and stop. All my roomates ran out and we started laughing and talkng about it. It was quite an experience going through something like that. I don't mean to be a dork, but my heart was definitely pumping pretty hard after it happened. I wasn't really ever scared, but it got my adrenaline going pretty darn well!
I am a little disappointed with our dogs, because I heard that they are supposed to sense these kinds of thing before they happen, but all they did was lay there and sleep. Worthless I tell ya, worthless.