Yes--she said the river outside their house was flowing backwards and was getting her kids and pets in the car to flee. Pray for her and the other AWers in the region.
Newsflash - tsunami in Japan...how are our Japanese members doing?
Not in Japan right now (need to change my thing) but it looks like this wasn't the big bad horrible one that they've been expecting in my area for the past fifty years.
Yes the specialists on TV said that the ones we're now experiencing might trigger the great one. I hope it won't. I hope it won't because yesterday I thought I was going to die, and wasn't even in the epicenter, it was that horrible.
Are they giving any kind of timeline for that scenario?
I just heard back from one of my friends and he said the earthquake was the longest he's ever experienced by far.
No, they say it can happen next week, in a few months, or in a few years even, so I guess they don't know.
And yes it was very long, because there were a few shocks, one after another. We watched our books and stuff fly from the shelves, so we cleaned them up when the first one calmed down. In three minutes the stuff was on the floor again