Sunday, December 02, 2007

Earthquake


Thursday afternoon there was a 7.4 Earthquake here in the Caribbean off the
coast of St. Martinique. It was the most fucked up thing I have ever
felt. Everything was rocking back and forth: the cars, the ground, the
buildings.

I had just come in from the sun and sat down on my
couch. I was thinking, damn, I must have gotten a lot of sun as I felt
that the whole room began to sway back and forth. But then i was like,wtf, everything really is swaying - I ran outside and saw the parked cars swaying, the buildings
swaying, and people running out of the buildings looking around
confused as ever. I felt like a was surfing the ground, trying to stay
up.

Stories were shared all that night and the next, on where
they were when it all happened. Some told of being at the beach, where
the waves got bigger and where locals jumped on the roofs of buildings
looking out for a tsunami. One lady was interviewed and though someone
was kicking her chair. One man said he felt drunk, and in his own words
he finishes "but I knew me never had one drink yet, me drink nothing".

In all, we had 2 minutes of tremors, and it was an unbelievable feeling. Luckily there was very little damage here, and no one was hurt. It actually turned out to be kind of interesting and neat in some bizarre way.

For some reason the ACDC's song came on into my head later that night, and has been with me for the past few days: 'you shook me all night long'

At least that song is better than Hanson's MMM Bop. I'm just surprised it took an earthquake to get that stupid song out of my head.

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