I may be one of the very few people in the area to have not felt that earthquake yesterday. Fun fact - when driving in a car, you don’t really feel it.

Disappointed, upset and then driven into panic, I went about my hectic day trying to talk to business owners about their experiences with the earthquake. But, one thing I did remember was my own experience, the night before.

I have this thing, I like to call it a gift, most people just think it’s disturbing or creepy. I have dreams, well I’m sure everyone else does as well, but my dreams slowly start coming true - more like premonitions. I dreamt Monday night and early Tuesday morning about a post-apocalyptic Leesburg.

I was jumping on the roofs, scaling across traffic lights all to avoid the police force and mayhem that was on the streets below. But, as I started to enter businesses, they were empty. One in particular, my own personal watering hole, Ball’s Bluff Tavern, was completely dark, with no one in it, except for one bartender who I tried to escape with. For some reason all the police in the town were trying to destroy everyone who survived, what we survived I’m not sure of. Now, this is all in my dream.

Yesterday, directly after the quake hit, I was driving back to the office with my fellow report Andrew Sharbel, and we were entering our parking lot. This is when we saw everyone from the Loudoun County Government Center filing out into the streets - we had no idea what was going on. After discovering we had had an earthquake, I went running around like a crazy woman trying to talk to businesses. I end up at Ball’s Bluff Tavern, and went up to the top bar King’s Court, where there was no one. Completely empty with just the TV on with the news flashing pictures of mobs of people evacuating their buildings.

I know what you’re thinking, ‘Wow, this girl really can predict what’s going on!’ And you’re right, I can. But it’s freaky right? How did I dream about this and then have a sort of apocalyptic day following it?

Maybe I’m just upset I missed the real thing, but the dream itself was pretty traumatic for me. So, I guess I’ll just have to wait for the aftershock - but I already think I’m experiencing that - the aftershock of predicting a next day natural disaster. What will my dreams bring for tomorrow? Stay tuned ...