Tuesday I am sitting at my desk talking with a client on the phone to work out the logistics of their truck load and suddenly my chair rolled back about two feet. As I was rolling I had a vibration starting literally at my core, which by the way scared me because I had a moment of, OH SHIT...it's coming back- am i sick? Almost immediately there was a roar that sort of sounded like an explosion and all hell broke loose. The walls were literally moving and my cubicle wall started bending in towards my face. The office windows were buckling in and pictures and papers started falling and it shook like nothing I have ever felt in my life. I jumped up and tried to push the wall away from me because I have two glass panes in it that were coming right at me. Not knowing it was an earthquake I just wanted it away from my eyes. About 15 seconds later there was such a eerie silence while we all stood there trying to figure out what happened. Was it a warehouse accident? Did a plane go down at Dulles right behind the office? Or worse, was it a terrorist attack around the 10th anniversary of 9/11? We're 14 mi from downtown DC so for us it's way to realistic. It might sound sick but we were really relieved to find out it was an earthquake though once it sunk in we were totally freaked out. The miracle of mother earth's generosity is noone in the office or the warehouse were seriously injured and not one of the giant pallets, stacked three high in the warehouse came down and killed someone. She was very kind as she sent us a serious message that we need to take better care of her.
Thursday was severe thunderstorn day which caused a ton of accidents and made traffic impossible. It was one storm after the next. Kind of surreal.
It is now about 1am on Saturday and we are set to get battered by hurricane Irene later today. I am glad today is the last day of the week and sincerely hoping it will break the weather chaos that reigned this week. Please keep all those who have lost homes and businesses this past week with all the natural disasters. I send them love and light and healing and pray that earth mother will see fit to give us a little longer to try to do right by her even though we don't deserve it. Peace, light and love.
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