Showing posts with label Natural Disaster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Natural Disaster. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

I see you riding ‘round town with the guy I love and I’m like forget you…

Day 23: Share one of your current favorite tunes

So I uh, don’t really have a current favorite tune. But my default is almost always Seventy Times 7. It fits my life absolutely perfectly right now so look that ish up.

In case you haven’t heard there was a gigantic blizzard warning issued for most of Northern Utah and Idaho and probably part of Wyoming and whatever basically just a ton of the western states. I still went to my severe and unusual weather class today though which seemed fitting and learned a lot about blizzards. Then he made us go outside and measure that crappy old snow we had leftover from the weekend so that was annoying. But I was reminded of the time when I was in Disneyworld with my family and there was a hurricane warning that was issued and we went to Epcot for half the day and then had to settle into our condo and prepare for the storm. It was the same kind of feeling that I had to carry on normally with my life but still realize that there was potential danger coming later on. The main difference between these two events was that the hurricane was much much worse. Seriously the blizzard has basically fizzled out here. I guess lake effect snow is still possible and the severe cold is the real issue here but I was prepared for a lot worse.

But meh whatever at least we’re all safe inside our warm homes. I couldn’t be more grateful for that.

Stay safe and warm everyone.

I didn’t take this but I thought it was pretty…and fitting.

I have a thing for pictures of deserted roads. True story.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Utah's taste of the worldwide earthquake epidemic...

Dear world,
I felt an earthquake today. I was sitting on my bed answering texts for the kgb UK branch which is always very interesting because I read them in an English (or Irish depending on where they're from) accent and get to pretend I'm finding a route on the tube or whatever they're asking me. Back to the earthquake though, I'm sitting there on my laptop and my bed starts shaking. I realize I'm not moving any more than usual so obviously it's an outside source. My closet doors are rattling as is my door so I'm kind of like uhm...earthquake?! My neighbor Keith was like "No I think someone next door must be jumping around or something." (I'm in college, that can't be that strange hahaha). I'm not totally convinced though so we look outside and everyone looks calm so we ignore it. Then I get on facebook and people are freaking out about an earthquake so I assumed it actually was one. Then I got really nervous that it could trigger the big one down in Salt Lake and all my besties and family would be screwed and I got really nervous and no one up here understood and I was sad :( Luckily my sister assured me she didn't feel it and everyone was fine so it was all good.
Upon further research I found out that it was a pretty shallow earthquake so there really shouldn't be any noticeable aftershocks so it should be all good in this neighborhood.
Just thought I'd share my personal experience with our recent earthquake.