tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29864506.post1119462029797060399..comments2023-11-03T05:49:10.841-04:00Comments on Storytelling Rules: An Earthquake in New Jersey... Seriously?Maureen McGowanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00494408580378817045noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29864506.post-78124976168139889672011-08-29T08:50:46.448-04:002011-08-29T08:50:46.448-04:00Molly! I never go on fb but I will just to see pic...Molly! I never go on fb but I will just to see pictures of glowing worms and cows!<br /><br />Hope you're having a fantastic time. <br /><br />As for the storm - the media did it's absolute best to scare the crap out of me... but I survived no problem. Just 24 hours of no power.Stephanie Doylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448686465587131952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29864506.post-32573316856575818602011-08-29T01:34:01.580-04:002011-08-29T01:34:01.580-04:00Oh, Molly! The kids are going to love the glow wor...Oh, Molly! The kids are going to love the glow worms! I forgot about that. <br /><br />Hope you're having a fabulous time and from the smiles in the photos on FB, I'd guess that you are. :)Maureen McGowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00494408580378817045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29864506.post-69432736016369437642011-08-29T00:52:50.797-04:002011-08-29T00:52:50.797-04:00Hey steph - how about the storm? everyone okay??? ...Hey steph - how about the storm? everyone okay??? <br /><br />HI GUYS!!!! I'm in my camper and outside my window is a cow...like right there. we're off to see glow worm caves tomorrow. All is well, there are updates on my facebook page and pictures on Adam's if you're interested.Molly O'Keefehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15171236688541657736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29864506.post-9134755166078346122011-08-26T09:36:38.253-04:002011-08-26T09:36:38.253-04:00I felt nothing.... I had to see it in the news be...I felt nothing.... I had to see it in the news before I realized anything had happened..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29864506.post-67507540386395226552011-08-25T18:55:52.011-04:002011-08-25T18:55:52.011-04:00Steph, you are so powerful!
BTW, my agent just cl...Steph, you are so powerful!<br /><br />BTW, my agent just claimed responsibility for the quake. Said it was his Deviant ability. Inside joke about my book...<br /><br />But seriously, Steph, batten the hatches!<br /><br />And Eileen, thanks for being so generous in your interpretation of my behavior. LOLMaureen McGowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00494408580378817045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29864506.post-59242377146575468172011-08-25T14:15:56.107-04:002011-08-25T14:15:56.107-04:00Okay so I mentioned a Hurricane in my post... now ...Okay so I mentioned a Hurricane in my post... now Irene's headed for us.<br /><br />It's like Natural Disaster week on the Discovery Channel!Stephanie Doylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448686465587131952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29864506.post-62939216220897840772011-08-25T13:14:53.904-04:002011-08-25T13:14:53.904-04:00It was totally the morphine, Maureen. Although I d...It was totally the morphine, Maureen. Although I don't think you can count it as narcissistic and needy since you didn't call anyone. You were ready to make the sacrifice and be forgotten while they tended to the hideously injured people in your head. Brave girl! Even while drugged and casted!Eileenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09803986849921870941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29864506.post-67400235583844138302011-08-25T13:04:06.585-04:002011-08-25T13:04:06.585-04:00Supposedly people felt that quake in Toronto, but ...Supposedly people felt that quake in Toronto, but I didn't. <br /><br />But I have felt several earthquakes in my life. My usual reaction is to assume it's not that bad. To trivialize it. To assume it's no big deal. Even the few that have continued for a while.<br /><br />The one time I reacted (very) differently was while I was living in California. I was in hospital and it was the middle of the night. I'd just had surgery to repair a ruptured Achilles tendon, so can probably blame the morphine, but I got really upset. All the nurses continued to bang around (I swear nurses are louder at night than during the day) as if nothing was happening and meanwhile I was imagining horrible things. <br /><br />I still hadn't been out of bed since the surgery, and had a toe-to-crotch, very heavy cast, and I assumed that the hospital would be overrun by seriously injured people and the staff would forget about me. But I didn't call out for a nurse, I just quietly cried and felt sorry for myself.<br /><br />Clearly, I am a narcissistic needy wimp in crisis. But I still blame the morphine. <br /><br />(Meanwhile, my poor sister who'd flown down from Toronto so I wouldn't be alone for my surgery, was running around my apartment, protecting all my pottery. :) She had her priorities straight. :)Maureen McGowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00494408580378817045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29864506.post-36250825576873278632011-08-25T12:46:34.286-04:002011-08-25T12:46:34.286-04:00I've felt four or five since I moved to the we...I've felt four or five since I moved to the west coast. The biggest one happened relatively far away and woke me up, but I wasn't sure why until I heard about it on the radio the next day.<br /><br />Another time, we were at a playground in San Francisco and I didn't so much feel it as wonder why all the swings were moving when no kids were on them at the time.<br /><br />The last ones were when a series of earthquakes hit Carson City while we were there for a soccer tournament. I was just falling asleep when the first one hit. It sounded like a train was going down the street, but it was over in seconds.<br /><br />Now . . . to your other point. Most of the emergencies I've been in have been more medical than natural. I tend to be (surprisingly) very calm during the actual event and then fall apart completely when it's all over and everyone's okay.Eileenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09803986849921870941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29864506.post-19833832251910091452011-08-25T11:10:44.796-04:002011-08-25T11:10:44.796-04:00I felt nothing, haha. ;D
The first earthquake I c...I felt nothing, haha. ;D<br /> The first earthquake I can ever remember experiencing was when I was in first grade: The ground just started shaking suddenly, and I was OK with it... until some kid yelled "STAMPEDE!" Then I was absolutely terrified of being crushed by an angry rhino(of course!!), and I swiftly tucked myself beneath my desk.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com