Winter Wonderland and Earthquake

We thought that winter was over, it had been a while since we had snow. I must say that driving into town has been a breeze this winter, dry asphalt and grey skies, perfect driving conditions. However, this past week it all changed, not only did we get lots of snow we also experienced and earthquake!


Yes, last night on February 27th after 9pm this powerful rumble seemed to englobe our house, both my husband and I jumped up and ran to the windows wandering what was happening, it almost seemed like a space ship was landing on our roof top. Than we thought it was an airplane that was flying very low. I first thought of an earthquake, but my only reference was from 30 years ago in Vancouver and everything in the house was shaking, litterally, this time it was eery more like a vibration, a very loud vibration but nothing shook. We learned this morning that it had been an earthquake of 3.9 magnitude and the centre was 32km away. How odd, since a few days ago Chili got shaken pretty bad. And I thought we lived in a safe environment, I don't know if there is such a place anymore.


These past couple of years we've experienced some really powerful storms, trees were derooted, some lost their sims others just cracked. The weather has been all over the map, very difficult to predict. There used to be a time when we sort of knew what to expect, what kind of summer or winter it would be like, now days no one knows and picking vacation time hoping to get good weather is nearly impossible.