Earthquake

This afternoon we had the first earthquake I've felt since I've lived in San Diego. It turns out it was a five point two on the richter scale, which isn't all that big, but big enough to give everyone a tense moment. It has me remembering the 7.6 quake I lived through while in Taiwan and how fricking scary that was. The bridge I took to school each day had collapsed. My school had significant damage, one whole wing was not re-opened. Three of my 25 kindergarten students had lost their homes. Aftershocks for weeks... such a tense time for the Taiwanese, the whole city basically camping in a park until the aftershocks stopped. I remember the six.five aftershock that I survived riding in an elevator. All of that was scarier than today's event. I went into the lab where I worked and loudly blamed today's rumbling on the Mexican food I had for lunch.