Old Hat

We had two more good shakes today within 80 minutes of each other: 5.5 magnitude at 1:pm and 6.0 magnitude at 2:20pm. Power was knocked out to our house for about 3 hours, and the water is running from the tap at a slow dribble, but other than that, we're fine. Rocky and The Squidd were at their respective schools, both of which were evacuated. And as before, The Squidd would've slept right through the quakes had the teachers not had to wake him to clear the kids out of the building. Rocky left his office and made the short walk with a fellow dad to the daycare to pick up the kiddos. I met them there with the car an hour later (traffic--grr!).

These things have been happening with such regularity that we're becoming very practiced at the recovery drill. Before daylight faded, which happens early now that we're near the winter solstice, we pulled out candles and supplies from our earthquake preparedness kit. We also prepped a simple dinner of PBJ sandwiches, Pringles, and fruit. Trickiest part of all of this is considering how to keep The Squidd warm as he sleeps. Merino wool shirt under his pjs plus two sleep sacks and a blanket? Bring him into bed with us when we're ready for bed? Thankfully we didn't have to follow this thread of thought to it's conclusion as the power came back on around 5:00ish.

So here we are in a very familiar situation: well shaken but definitely not rattled.

Note: Heard on the news that a few (6 or 7) people sustained injuries from falling debris in the central business district, but so far, no reports of the widespread damage and loss of life as last time. Keeping our fingers crossed . . .