I survived the 8.2 Earthquake... (Patreon)

... And didn't even get a lousy T-shirt. :)

For those people asking, thank you, the shaker was exciting for a few moments there. Probably the strongest 'quake I've ever sat through, even if they did downgrade it to a 7.9 from the preliminary magnitude 8.

But I suffered no damage, nothing fell off the walls or shelves, the cat was largely nonplussed. A floating NOAA bouy out in the ocean a few miles north of the epicenter DID, however, supposedly record a "ten meter" spike in water height, which caused a Tsunami Warning and the coastal cities of Kodiak, Homer and Seward to be partially (voluntarily) evacuated.

The evacuations apparently went fairly smoothly, and there have been no reported incidents or injuries because of it. The warning was cancelled a few hours later and it seems everyone went home.

It IS, of course, better to be safe than sorry, as the '09 Indonesian and '11 Japanese tsunamis weren't all that long ago, and were certainly still fresh in people's minds.

Technically, if we had a monster wave like Indonesia got, I'm technically close enough to the shore that I might have gotten some minor flooding, but I think the underwater geography would have been entirely wrong for that.

Well, exciting for a little while, but then, there's a reason they call this the Ring of Fire. :)

Doc.