aftershocks

I'm renaming aftershocks tremors because I'm just not shocked by them anymore. Mildly to increasingly annoyed by them due to the very inconvenient timing of them and varied size of them. The most annoying ones are the jolts cause they are so little that you can't help but think what else coming? The bigger ones you just kinda of go, oh that's done then. Mags doesn't even notice the little ones which are smaller than a large truck driving by. We have a lot of large trucks with generators driving by at the moment.

11.40ish last night - I used to know exact times of the tremors but there are so many of them - the 11.40pm one was 5.4 and woke me up enough to get out of bed cause these suckers go for a long time and then another about 3.30am. 5.14am was 5.3. Plus the other 10 overnight. It's hard to go back to sleep after those 5am ones. I am so tired.

Every tremor brings worries about no power or water or damage or injury - not so much for us but for those further north than us who are really suffering - although they don't have all the mod-cons like power, sewerage and water like we do. I thank Heavenly Father all the time that I live in a town that was smart enough to get it's own sewerage plant and that I don't live in the city. You don't realise how important that is until raw sewerage is bubbling up through the ground and new springs are pushing up through the sand. We have a spring so we will be always be fine - provided it doesn't disappear.

Worst thing about civil defense emergencies? being over it and wanting normality back but realising this might be normal for a very long time.

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