Shake, Rattle, and Roll!!!

It was pretty exciting around here yesterday! Having lived in California for 30 of my 49 years you would think I was used to earthquakes, but I'm not sure you every are- at least not me! Lynn and I were at the office with Aunt Marcia and everything did fine- even the two glass walls that Lynn assured me afterwards were tempered glass and would just shatter into little chunks- I felt much better after he informed me of that. Whit had just left with Sydney for the beach but we got hold of her right away and they were okay-just wondering why the telephone pole at the stoplight were shaking back and forth! We were worried how the dogs did at home alone, but didn't even think about how close our house was to the center of the earthquake and really didn't worry about damage because it was only a 5.4- just moderate in size. Lynn and I headed down to NB and I got a call from my friend Karen who asked if we had gone home to check on things- she had gotten to her house to find lots of breakage- I of course immediately panicked about the dogs and she ran over to check on them while we headed home. Poor Karen was so worried- Trixie came right to her, but she couldn't find Emmie anywhere- after looking all over the house she went into the backyard and Emmie was by the front gate waiting and didn't want to come into the house! We were so surprised when we got home and walked through the house to find things off the walls, tipped over, and broken in every room! I have lived here for much bigger earthquakes and have never had any damage- maybe a picture frame knocked over, but not things broken and off the shelves. All of our drawers that faced a certain way were open and luckily only a few cupboards opened and had things fall out. I guess it was just our proximity to the center that caused the damage- but can you imagine if it had been much bigger??? They were saying a 6.4 would be a 1,000 times stronger and so on- it might be time to rethink where I have some things placed and time to get some cupboard latches! Oh, and this morning we have NO WATER- they had a water main break and a pumping station go down in Fullerton so we may not have it back until tomorrow!!!


This is everything that was broken- so sad!

Our house shook front to back and thankfully this hutch was perpendicular to that otherwise we would have lost everything on it. Right before the open house I had put my great-aunt's china from the 1920's up in the hutch and then decided I didn't like it there- thank heavens!!!

We found poor Trixie passed out- Emmie refused to come into the house and when we got home and opened the garage door she stuck her head in the cat door to the garage but wouldn't come to us!


These are pictures of how we found everything- it was just such a surprise to walk through the house and find things broken and down in every single room!