I must say that today was quite an eventful day! I woke up this morning around 12:33am to learn that we had NO POWER! Our house was completely in the dark! Cory ended up waking up around 1:30am only to see that he could not see, haha! I had to walk him into the bathroom and then back into bed. Then Caiti ended up coming into my room at 3:33am to let me know she could not turn the light on and that she had to pee!! So I informed her the power was out and walked her back into the bathroom then into bed. Two hours later, Jay and I got up to start the day. We walked around the house trying to find all of our flashlights by the light of my cell phone which is VERY hard, haha! We found them and started getting things together for when the kids got up. Thankfully...just in time....the power kicked back on at 6:30am...right when the kids alarms go off! Perfect! So our day turned back into a normal routine at that point!
I went on a very long and very nice walk with Jeannie! 4 miles today and tomorrow we will hopefully extend that to 6!! After my walk, I came home and wanted to nap!! Jay and I just kind of relaxed all day. He played video games and I napped!!! When I woke up, Jay decided that he wanted to was his car. It's now about 1:30 in the afternoon. So we head out back to wash his car. Get completely done with that and I'm mid conversation with Jeannie when all of a sudden she screams through the phone "OH MY GOSH....IT'S AN EARTHQUAKE!!!!!" Instantly I saw everything around me shaking and I heard loud rumbling!! Me, Suzi and Jay all ran outside...instinct!! Apparently it would have been safer to run into our basement. Definitely going to have a family meeting in regards to a safe zone! We stood outside for a few minutes until we felt it was completely over. Jay and I just kind of stared at eachother. Realizing it was an earthquake but not really believing the fact that we just had an EARTHQUAKE!!!! Jay said to pull my car out of the garage just in case. We did that and then tried getting into contact with the kids' schools but our cell phones were not working!! I drove over to Jeannie's house to make sure she was okay and to see if she was able to contact the school. After a while she was able to get through. The kids were fine and the schools were okay. THANK GOD!!! As I drove back down to my house, I looked at everyone standing outside and they all had the same confused and shock looks on their faces! Who would have thought?!
I definitely thought that we had left the whole "earth moving under our feet" thing in California but I guess I was wrong! We had a few pictures and decorations knocked over but thankfully, no major damage!! Our cat, Max was completely spooked and did not come out from under the bed for a while! I too was spooked...I couldn't stop talking and moving. Jay finally just grabbed me and held me. I have never done well with earthquakes...kind of why I was glad to leave California! HA! So much for that!! However, we did survive and our family is okay! Thankfully, everyone who endured this today is okay. There were no deaths but plenty of structural damages. Including my friend, Tiffany's office. Her ceiling basically collapsed right onto her desk! The building is damaged and they all made it out safely!! PTL!!!
Those are just a few pictures of the few things that fell over today. I will take today's events and use it as a learning tool. We definitely need to be more prepared for when things like this happen. An emergency plan for our family needs to be set into place and I need to make my emergency tote!!! Thank you God for watching over us today!!
