We had an earthquake yesterday around 10:20 or so in the morning. I was in the ER, sitting next to the Hubz, the Patient (who is considerably better but will be there for a day or two more). Ground floor. And the building shook. Really shook! Magnitude was 4.8, which is nothing from a west coast standpoint, but a lot for New Jersey (east coast and on bedrock). The epicenter is about 12-15 miles from here, so not far away at all.
It seemed to go on forever. Not much damage that I could see. A few things fell off shelves at my house. There are lots of aftershocks, but I think I have felt only one. And I was sitting in a Starbucks in the hospital around noon today and I think I felt a something move. On the other hand, my table was wobbly and needed a shim under one of its feet. So who knows? At any rate, I don't ever have to feel an earthquake again. Been there, done that.
And what was I doing while all this was going on? Knitting a sock of course. What else do you do when you are in the ER for 7 hours? Medicinal knitting which soothes my soul while I worry about the Guy.
I'd take a pic of the sock in progress, but it's just a sock in stockinette. We knitters knit through storms, floods and earthquakes! And also in Emergency Rooms.
And that's all the news here.
