We haven't felt any after-shocks up here in the Valley. Did you see the surveillance video at Martin's Market in Mineral of the quake throwing stuff off the shelves? I don't scare easily, but I would have been scared inside that store or the Food Lion. I saw where the schools were closed until Sept. 6 in some areas.
Augusta County's first day of school was yesterday. It shook our schools pretty hard, too. Our church just got a new pastor from North Carolina, with a young family. This was the first move since his children were born, so they uproot the kids and move six hours away from grandparents, family and friends, right before the oldest child's first day of school ever. They haven't been here long enough to make many friends, so it was going to be a tough first day of school. He spoke on Sunday about how nervous his son was and that he was probably even more nervous. We tried to reassure him that all would go well...then we have an earthquake! There were only two schools in the area that had to be evacuated, and one of them was his little boy's school. Caleb probably won't want to go back to school, either.
