Did you feel that?

[wolf]

Yep, felt it.

I had gone out for my walk (did 2.25 miles today, short one, yesterday was a 4 miler), and had finished taking my shower and was laying in bed watching some stuff on netflix. I had just finished a phone call with a friend, and wondered how an animal had gotten into my room and was messing around under my bed ... then the tubs of books started rocking around and I was worried that either they were going to fall on me, or that something structually really bad had happened above me in the highrise I live in, like a light plane or helicopter flew into it, or a runaway truck smacked into the wall (I'm on the very end of the building and most likely site for a runaway truck to hit, naturally).

When plaster didn't fall off the ceiling, my first thought was "Earthquake."

I grabbed my phone and hit the USGS site and saw the report for the epicenter in Virginia for a 5.8. One of my friends lives about 10 miles from me, said her macaw went nuts and panicked, but her rabbits (four of them) just kept on munching hay like nothing was going on. She didn't mention the guinea pigs.

We get one or two of these a year in the Philadelphia area, most of them I've slept through, but this was clearly the strongest.

It was quite cool to be able to enter a witness report on USGS, though.