I know my mum too well, so much so that I now know what she says in certain situations. There are certain stories that, as her first born, I’ve heard time and time again. I predict them now, it’s rather amusing.
One such prediction happened this weekend.
If you watch the news, the big story this weekend was the Kent Earthquake. Of course, it was rather piddly, so much so that when it was announced as breaking news, the words “I didn’t feel a thing” were said in unison by a large number of Kent residents. The first time those words have been said in Kent since I split up with Han.
Of course, being a slow news day, it was all over the news, with big orange breaking news banners straddling the bottom of every news channel in the UK, Press Conferences were held, big flashy diagrams were used, and all sorts of Geophysics experts were drafted from the dole line to talk about rocks. Whoopee doo.
Anyway, was sat when this was announced with my mum. Whenever there’s an earthquake in the world mum mentions the 5.4 Richter Nefyn Earthquake in 1984, which my mum (and a very young sexy Welshman who happens to write this blog) experienced. I said to Aled “I bet you that mum’ll mention the earthquake we had up here.”.
It came on the news.
“Oooh! There was an earthquake up here when you were little Rhys! The plates shook and I spilt my tea, but it was a bit exciting!”.
I burst into hysterics.
Also, I can say I have survived a natural disaster. What’s been the most extreme weather or natural disaster you have been a witness of? My dancing is not a natural disaster by the way.
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Rhys Wynne, the author of this blog, is a 20 something web designer from Colwyn Bay. 
I must have also survived that sucker.
It rained here quite bad the other day… I’m lucky to be alive
Despite being in the middle of an area affected by the earthquake I didn’t feel a thing as I was playing tennis, I feel cheated. I wrote a post about the over-reacting of the news because it just made me laugh how they went on about it.
I have been in 3 earthquakes and one of them was quite large but somehow I missed them all due to either sleeping right through them or being out and not noticing.
I felt the one with the epicentre in Dudley. I was in bed, and my room shook for a few seconds. Was pretty cool
I thought tha article was amusing when they went on about the unstable chimneys! Thats all we ever worry about in canterbury!
The wind on Blackpool seafront can be a bit ferocious at times
I think I vaguely remember a flood in my town when I was younger-that was fun tho-not scary
Aww, leave her alone!
Rhys, your blog is starting to get very similar to Ryan’s!!! He asks the questions!!!
I survived living in a 3rd world counrty. Of course it helped that I had 3 pools, tennis courts, a park, BBQ areas…
I hate earthquake or tsunamis or cyclones. Good to hear that you haven’t experience a strong quake, I have and its nerve wracking.