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mother nature
Mother Nature must be feeling pissy, lately.

First there were the fires.
Yesterday, there was a thunder and lightning storm.
Today, there was an earthquake.

Except for the destruction caused by the fires, this is kind of exciting :D (The thunder and lightening, and the earthquakes. Darl, my parakeet, seems a bit traumatized from them, though.)

I was home from school yesterday, sleeping. When I woke up, it was to thunder. Today, I discovered (when I was trying to find out the homework from a class that I missed) that a good deal of people were sleeping in and missing class. It's like the thunderstorm had a soporific effect that seeped in throughout the morning with the gathering clouds, and was only let out at the onset of the storm itself.

I was changing into my nightclothes when the shaking started. I didn't want to run into the doorway of my room (supposedly a very stable part of a house's structure) because I was half-into my nightgown, and not really decent. My brother had it worse - he was in the glass-walled shower, and wondering if he was going to become one of those people who had to run out naked into someplace safer, like in the stories of the San Francisco earthquake.

My mother just got off the phone, and announced that the earthquake measured a five point six.

I wish I had been lying down. Only once before do I recall laying down flat against the floor during an earthquake, and it woke me up - I'd been sleeping, at the time. The sounds of everything as my ear was pressed against the ground were eerie - like a rumbling, growling ROAR, and not the sort of sound you expect the earth to make, at all. (The only earth sounds I think of are squelchy dirt sounds, from the occasional rain. An earthquake used to mean the sound of things rattling -- but I'd never pressed my ear to the ground to hear the resonations.)