Earthquake damage — exclusive photos!
As reported earlier, the individual hardest hit by the 5.4 quake‘s ferocity was this 12″ Hawkgirl figurine. The plastic figurine plunged over 15″ off the top of my computer monitor to land in this supine position on some papers. Top-heavy due to her large, unposable wings, she has always been a special risk in times of earthquakes. She is expected to be put back on top of the monitor later today.
Hawkgirl’s longtime companions atop the monitor, 7″ Wonder Woman and 6″ Trinity, were unharmed.
In Sam’s room, the body of a Sandtrooper lies face down on the floor, while a Darth Sidious Pez dispenser collapses nearby. Only the providence of springy, wall-to-wall carpeting saved these 4.5″ toys from possible scuff marks.
The mantises were unharmed.
Earthquake!
Well, boy howdy! Now I can say that I’ve actually lived through a genuine Southern California earthquake.
I was, of course, asleep, but was awoken by a strange shaking sensation. It felt as though one of my children was shaking the bed, trying to get me to wake up. Then, as I came awake, I thought what it felt like was one of the cats perched on the head of the bed, steadying himself before making a big jump to somewhere — if our cats weighed about 100 pounds more than they do.
Then I became aware of a rattling sound, which, were I in a different bed, I would have attributed to the bed frame rattling against the wall. Then I woke up enough to see that it wasn’t the bed frame, it was the framed paintings at the foot of the bed, and they were all swaying back and forth. By the time I was awake enough to register it, it was all over. Dogs in the street barked a little, passers-by laughed and related their tales of minor peril.
I sat up in bed, said “Hey. That was an earthquake,” and called my wife to make sure she and the kids were okay (they were — and at swim class, so, perfect).
I went downstairs to see if anything was broken. Not only was everything not broken, nothing seems to have even fallen down. Bookcases, dishes, tiny little porcelain figurines, everything was intact. Oops, no, wait, there is a casualty — my 12″ Hawkgirl figure fell off her perch on top of my computer monitor — maybe I should start up a funding campaign to stand her back up again.