The boys and I were sitting watching TV this evening. I was in the recliner and John was laying on the floor below me. I told him to stop kicking my chair, and he giggled, but then I looked up and the light-pulls on the ceiling fans were moving too. We could still feel it, a little, before we got up. Seamus said he felt it on the couch. Things in the other rooms were rolling a little too.

I was second-guessing myself, since a train went by right after we felt it, and sometimes we feel those too. We went to the USGS web site, and nothing was up yet, so back to TV-watching we went.

After the show was over, I refreshed that site, and there it was, a 5.6 in San Jose, just over the hill from us.

It was very mild here. I’ve only felt two since I’ve lived in the valley, but I grew up in the Bay Area, and have been through a couple of that size. I bet things are knocked off walls, but I hope it wasn’t big enough to bring down any freeways or buildings. I don’t even have the jump-into-doorways reflex any more; we all jumped up, sure, but to go see what was swinging.

I hope my San Jose friends are all safe. I see that CNN says there were no injuries, and that it was a deep one, which explains the gently rolling effect.

Whee!