Date: April 18, 2008
Time: 6:28 am
Listening to: The News
So, I’m up at 4:30 this morning, as usual because I’m an insomniac, right? Well, the entire house starts to shake, my cat is going nuts, and the couch is moving while I’m sitting on it. At first I was like, holy shit! Someone is trying to break into the house and then it hits me.. I’m experiencing my first earth quake. I run into my room and Donnie is laying there eyes as big as his ears. He gets up, we inspect the house, everything is cool. I turn on the news, sure enough, it was an earthquake.
They say that it was 5.4 in magnitude on the richter(sp?) scale.
Pretty big in these parts of the midwest. The actual earthquake was in West Salem, IL. The shock waves were so massive that it shook tall buildings in Indianapolis! It also reached Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Kentucky. ( Can I get a “Holy F*ck”?)
A lady in here in Missouri called into the news and said that her property sits directly on the fault line and it split through the entire front room of her house. FREAKY! Another lady said that her mother in law heard a big BOOM and was then thrown out of her bed! One man called in and basically said he and his wife were scared (this is the midwestnot California!) so they called 9-11. 9-11 was busy!!
There are no reports of anyone being injured, thank God, but unfortunately there are several reports of structural damages.
I was absolutely terrified, I started shaking uncontrollably. Anyway, I have yet to go to bed, so maybe I’ll venture into that or watch some Saved by the Bell. So if anyone else felt this little earthquake we had, leave a comment, this is really interesting to me, because like I said, we don’t normally have earthquakes in these parts. I’m peacing out. Hope everyone is ok!!!
