Earthquake!

Before I get into my post about earthquakes, I just want to say that I'm participating in a 31 day blogging boot camp sponsored by Problogger, SITS, and BlogFrog. By participating, I'll be working on the look of my blog, and content of my blog, and the marketing of my blog. They guarantee that in 31 days, my blog will be the next Dooce. Just kidding, they make no such claim. But I am hoping it will help things out a bit.

Now on to earthquakes! Living in Southern California, you quickly learn that earthquakes are a hazard. We've been having a swarm of them since April. Not that I've felt a single one, but they have been happening. Seismologists are worried about the pattern of them, and think there's a very good chance we'll have a significant earthquake soon. They don't say things like this very often, so I'm kind of worried.

To prepare our daughter, my husband and I held an earthquake and fire drill over the weekend. This involved going over safety procedures in case of a fire. Apparently, I scared my daughter last week when I was putting her to bed. She was holding on to me, making it difficult for me to make my escape. I told her that I had to hurry to the kitchen to get something out of the oven before it started a fire. My husband had to spend the next half hour with her, assuring her the house wasn't going to burn down. Ooops!

So, we first went over fire safety! Then we went over earthquake safety, which involved going to every area of the house to point out the safest and worst places to go to in the event of an earthquake. We started in the dining room. My husband started shaking the chair our daughter was sitting on so she could feel what an earthquake felt like. She started screaming and crying. Wow, what acting, I thought! Nope, my husband hurt her foot. Luckily, it wasn't hurt too badly, and I joked that her injury was probably worse than anything that would occur in a real earthquake.

I hope I'm right!