forces of nature

as far as natural disasters go we are generally pretty lucky here in jersey...the worst we get is a couple feet of snow in the winter...but that isnt even that bad compared to places further north...all that changed last week...we experienced an earthquake and a hurricane!...what?!?

so the earthquake happened last tuesday (i think it was tuesday...haha!)...i was minding my business eating lunch in the caf when i felt the bench i was sitting on start to shake...i thought someone was sitting behind me and moving around a lot....but then i noticed that the table was moving...no way could someone sitting behind me do that...so i started to look around wondering what was going on...the only thing i saw was everyone else looking around with wtf expressions on their faces...haha!...i figured it was nothing so i continued to eat my lunch...when i was done i started to head back to my cube...on the way a saw a lot of people standing outside and thought to myself "hmm...i wonder if they evacuated the building and failed to tell the people in the caf"...but i didnt let that thought stop me from getting in the elevator...oops...haha!...when i got to my floor is when i finally found out it was an earthquake...it really wasnt that bad...it was just really weird...

then saturday night into sunday is when we got hit with hurricane irene...it was a category 1 so it was just a baby hurricane but it was still a hurricane!...during the day on saturday i ventured out to target to get supplies...and by supplies i mean things to keep me entertained while im stuck in the house...haha!...so i got things like this months gq with my future husband mark sanchez on the cover...and season 6 of boy meets world...and something borrowed (the book)...and other fun things like that...i settled in with all my fun new things and waited for the storm...the worst of it happened in the middle of the night while i was sleeping...little sis refused to go to sleep...she thought a tree would fall on her in the middle of the night...haha...anyway...i dont think it was as bad as it could have been but when all was said and done so many people were left without power...and there are a ton of roads that are flooded which makes it hard to get around...but other than that nothing too serious...which is great!

so those are the stories of my first earthquake and first hurricane...i survived!...i hope everyone stayed safe throughout the whole thing!