The conversation with my mother took a number of unexpected turns. If you arn't familiar with my mother, or are, but not well acquainted may not know how very psychic she is. I, however do.
She came right out and told me she is very scared for me, my well being, my life. She's walking around the house, wringing her hands saying "Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear." That's all she had to say to get my attention. I've lived with her enough to know what her "Oh dear," mantra coupled with frantic pacing and hand wringing means.
PAY ATTENTION!
"Oh dear, oh dear" preceded the car crash that totalled Granny's car so long ago, leaving her with a broken leg. Also, the train accident that would claim my uncles life and leave his youngest daughter a Jane Doe for days because no one could recognise her from the swelling and bleeding, it was also the very action that alerted her to my imminent departure when as a toddler I sat choking to death in another room. She was able to find me and revive me in time, but not before all life signs ceased, I turned blue and found myself floating on the ceiling.
Mom thinks the big one is coming. I've seen her predict earthquakes before, I've also known many of her intuitions have turned out slightly, to greatly different from her expectations. That's the nature of intuition, simply a natural mechanism of survival. Because the future hasn't happened yet, potentialities and possibilities can only appear in symbol form, drawn from the personal landscape of the intuitives imagination. Many times the psyche can interpret these"ripples" fairly accurately, other times the imaginative brush paints wide, leaving lots of room for interpretation. Either way, events presented in such a way, may never even manifest simply because the warning is properly heeded, or circumstances avoided.
The most succesful prophecy, is the one that doesn't come true.
First I asked her for a time frame, she said one word, "imminent." Then I immediately began to re-assure her, I've lived here for ten years now. I have a plan of action. I have my supplies packed and ready, and recently rotated. We are set. Her innate survival skills had rubbed off on me over the years afterall.
After we hung up, I got on line and checked out the emergency prepardness guidlines for Earthquakes and Tsunamies for my area.
I now know the biggest threat to my household and neighbourhood would not be the tsunami caused by earthquake or underwater volcano, but the quake itself, as sadly Vancouver Island, while decimated, would likely shield most of the mainlad cities. We have native memory that recounts the Tsunami of January 26th 1700, 21:00 hours, according to corresponding Japanese records of the time we know it had a mag of 9.0.
At the moment, I am glad things didn't work out as I had originally hoped for, to relocate to the West side of Vancouver Island, or even along the sunshine coast of the mainland, those folks would be in for a challenging though not completely impossible run at survival.
Tsunami's are terrifying, did you know that the first wave will not be the largest? And that monster waves may continue every ten minutes or so for up to several hours? I can't imagine how any one survived the Christmas Tsunami in Thailand and surrounding nations.
The Tsunami warning of June 14th gave BC a window of two hours after two 7+ mag quakes hit in California. That's a good amount of time, despite that I didn't hear a thing until after it was over, and after making general inquiries around my neighbourhood, found my experience wasn't unique. No one I spoke to received the warning, a few hadn't heard of it at all till I mentioned it. I suspect that has to do with the timing of the quakes, around 9 pm. Lets hope and pray if a tsunami does make its way here, it happens during a peak media hour like just before morning rush hour, while many adults and children havn't yet left their homes, or say around dinner time when families are gathered and the liklihood of turning on a media source is high.
I thought about packing up the jeep with my husband, feline lady and canine baby, supplies and running for the hills but then I remembered, I'm where I want to be, I'm where I'm supposed to be. If it were my time, I'd be dissapointed, I havn't finished yet, I don't think its my time. But I do feel what mom feels, I've been so worried about her, like she's the one in danger. It keeps me up at night.
In the News
Macleans.ca top stories
May 16, 2005
When B.C. gets hit
Chances that a massive earthquake and tsunami will devastate the Lower Mainland are frighteningly high. Consider this a wake-up call.
also see
BC Hazard Information Links
Seismic Monitor: North America ~ daily record of Earth's Quakes
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