Last night after being rattled to death in the car for 6 hours we decided to go out for food rather than cook and found a little place over the road. We sat down and ordered our food and played a few games of cards. Suddenly I began to feel really strange, 'is it cold' I asked Sam and Will, they both looked at me as if I was crazy because it was obviously still really warm even if it was 8:00 at night, 'look' I said, and all of the hairs down my arms were stood on end and I felt really chilly. I thought perhaps I was just really hungry and feeling a bit run down after the drive but about 30 seconds later I felt really odd. 'stop pushing the table' I said to will, who looked at me again as if I was crazy. 'I'm not pushing it' he said. My head felt as if it were moving and I felt as if the chair was rocking... this is it I thought, I'm going to faint! and then I realised that it wasn't my head moving, it was the floor and we were experiencing an earthquake!! Suddenly I wasn't cold anymore, quite the opposite, I was boiling. The woman turned on the news and we saw the presenters trying to read the news, but the table they were sat at was shaking, 'where are they?' I asked, 'In San Jose' she said, which is about 3 hours from here and they seemed to have it worse than us so I figured we weren't at the epicentre. The quake itself didn't last that long and wasn't actually that scary but I couldn't eat my food when it arrived because I was so worried that another, bigger tremor might occur - it's the first time I've been properly scared since we set off. Sam on the other hand was very very excited and kept saying that it was 'cool' and he hoped we would have a second, bigger one!!
Anyway the night passed with no further traumas (apart from when I went to the loo and a massive cockroach ran out - but will caught it). Today we have eased gently into Santa Teresa living and are settling in nicely. Sam is reading Harry Potter, Will has just got out the sea and I'm about to make a pasta... happy days (and hopefully no quakes tonight!)
I looked it up. It's epicentre was San Jose area. Of course, you now know that you are a wonderful person to have around! If ever you get that sensation again, you know to get yourself, Sam and Will to a place of safety quickly. But lots of places apparently have these kind of earthquakes all the time, and the locals tend not to think about them. I think NZ South Island is also 'shaky'...so if I were you, I'd stick to the North Island when you go there, because I know you don't like the sensation very much.
ReplyDeleteThe place you are in now looks beautiful. And you all look really well. It was smashing talking to you on Skype last night.
Hope Sam's ear gets better quickly.
Lots of love and kisses,
Mum
It sounds to me as if you are an Earth Empath. Not as scary as it sounds. A lot of people are tuned to the earth but just don't recognise it. Characerised by a sudden drop in blood pressure (the faintness you would have experienced) and a physical attraction to the electromagnetic centre of the earth at the time of seismic activity which is something to do with your silicone becoming a good conductor
ReplyDeletewhich would account for your heat loss and the hairs on your arms being attacted to the earth's centre. Apparently those with breast implants are particularly 'good' at it. On the other hand, one might comment that you are just like your mother, exoticly wierd.
Dogs are really tuned in too. I remember that Sam would sometimes suddenly race off in a panic from where he was lying (often asleep)and I always considered this behaviour to be the result of the occasional flea up his arse. Now I think it just as likely, if not more so, for him to have been experiencing activity hundreds of miles below the earth's surface - and the panic to be nothing other than an instinct for self-preservation.
Well bugger me! You and Sam both.
Lots of love
Dad