Still can't get a call through on the cell phone. Am home now. Some wall stuff askew, slightly. Checked on a neighbor's house and she had one platter fall off a hutch and also some paintings askew.

Lots of sirens and evacuees from nearby office buildings are milling about throughout the neighborhood.

Unusual amount of traffic on neighborhood streets. Not anywhere near 9/11 gridlock but some peops are obviously calling it a day and going home early. Fortunately this is the height of summer vacation season for locals so commuting traffic is lighter than normal to begin with.

News reports of a nuclear plant's automatic shut-down does get one's attention. There's just no getting out of this city in a hurry unless it's between midnight and 4:00a.