Pretty exciting day yesterday. I was painting my daughter’s bathroom (yes, I do take time off during the week since I work a lot of weekends) and all of a sudden, the whole house started shaking and it sounded like a freight train coming through! I thought our 275 year old house was having some kind of a bizarre catastophic plumbing incident. Or shades of Amityville Horror! After a few seconds, I sort of figured it out but never thought I was in an area where this would happen. The funny thing is, earlier that morning I saw on the news
Damage in ca. 1734 Fireplace
where southern Colorado had had a 5.3 earthquake. I couldn’t remember what you were supposed to do so I just “rode the wave” and then went downstairs to try to figure it out.
My phone rang and it was my sister in Colorado asking if we were OK. She said the news said we had just had a 5.8 earthquake. Well, that was news to me.
Suffice to say, the plant shut down as designed and no serious damage or injuries have been reported. Louisa schools closed until after Labor Day (they opened last week) and my understanding is that there is a clean-up needed in every aisle at the Louisa Food Lion!
All joking aside, the aftershocks have me a little on edge but I am so relieved that everyone is OK. We have some damage, primarily things that fell off our shelves and walls and one pretty substantial chimney crack but that’s about it,
I will be patrolling my out-of-town listings for damage this afternoon but don’t anticipate much. Thanks to all my clients, friend and family who called or emailed to check on us.
Tags: earthquake, Lake Anna
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