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Thursday 4th Dec 2025 10:10:09
EARTHQUAKE!
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Well, that was weird . . . So M**** and I are just chilling out in the lounge, watching television. It would have been some time between 23:00 and 23:30 (although in hindsight, exactly 23:23). Suddenly there was this massive crash . . . somewhere . . . and we (or at least I) went into full-blown, adrenaline-fuelled panic mode (I remember the last time something similar happened was when a precariously balanced, but fully packed, suitcase fell from the bannister onto the hallway outside our bedroom in the middle of the night, when we were living on Windsor Avenue). The best way I have of describing the feeling was as if a large vehicle had just collided with the house, or perhaps if a significant, structural part of the house had just collapsed. So that's initially what we both thought: that something, somewhere had just collapsed, or perhaps that a solar panel had fallen of the roof. I ran straight for R******'s room, as M**** wondered if he had fallen out of bed (blimey - he's not that heavy!). R****** was still in bed, and had been asleep until I burst in, checking he was okay. I then checked the rest of the house and all seemed in place. I grabbed my torch to check outside, whilst M**** checked some of the rooms I had missed. Everything seemed in order outside, as far as I could tell. And, having checked throughout the house, nothing seemed out of place there either. As we stood around on the patio outside the summer house, whatever it was had obviously disturbed other people in the neighbourhoor, as there were lights coming on and people talking and milling around in the distance. Not long after the disturbance, my phone started going crazy with posts in the Silverdale neighbourhood watch group. It wasn't long before we realised it had been an earthquake, 3.3 in magnitude, with an epicentre barely a few miles away. Anyway, exciting stuff. House intact, although I noticed a chunk of limestone from one of the rockeries had fallen to the path, although I'm not entirely sure when that happened . . .
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