Big Jolt

Just a little while ago we were jolted by an earthquake. Actually, there was a little jolt and then a bigger one, which actually knocked a picture frame (with Donovan's picture in it!) off my shelf in my sewing room. We quickly turned on the radio expecting to hear the SF talk radio show taking calls from people about the quake and what it felt like at different points around the Bay Area. It was a timely quake, since we are coming up on the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta Earthquake, aka The Pretty Big One (not to be confused with The Big One, 1906). Anyway, the only thing the radio talk show host said was that they had received a few calls from Pleasanton about an earthquake. Later, they mentioned that it was a 3.8 centered between Pleasanton and Sunol. I went on the USGS website and with the help of Google Earth saw where the epicenter was, probably less than 1.5 miles from our house! This on top of a freak rainstorm today that dumped almost 2 inches of rain and up to 50 mph winds! Nature gone crazy!