One of the things I enjoy doing on a hot summer day is floating on my back in the ocean. So I'm fairly well acquainted with the rocking motion that comes from drifting over ocean swells.
If I spend a lot of time in the water on a given day, that sense of rocking sometimes reoccurs when I lay down in bed at night.
But never have I had an entire office rock back and forth.
That's exactly what happened today when the earthquake shook the east coast. The concrete floor rolled beneath me, the walls creaked around me, pencils on my desk fell to the floor. It was as though my office had been transported to the bridge of a ship.
It was quite an unnerving experience. One I hope never to experience again.
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