Dramatic photos? Uhhhh....okay. See these dishes?
Ottawa's last big quake came in February of 2006. That night I was sitting on my couch and felt the wall rumbling behind me. At first I thought it was a very large truck going by.
"Probably the furnace starting up," Mr. Beazly remarked. (We do have a very noisy furnace.) He changed his mind when the "furnace" continued to rattle the windowpanes and our walls for the next 30 seconds.
When it was all over, all I could say to him was, "Good thing you're not a seismologist. Or a furnace repairman."
So no dishes were broken in the quaking? That still must have been surreal. You just don't associate Canada with earthquakes.
ReplyDeleteAs for flooding, all the drama is in the south of Sask. We haven't had any here, just a LOT of mosquitoes. They are a natural disaster too, though, let me tell you.
No dishes broken. Power out for about half an hour, but that was our only hardship.
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