First off, let me start by saying that we live in Indiana. In Indiana you don’t get many earthquakes. Big trucks driving by that make your walls shake, sure, but earthquakes? No, that doesn’t really happen.
This morning, around 5:30, Sam and I both woke up since our bed was waving and our headboard was thwacking against the wall. I was still half asleep, had no idea what was going on, and kept suggesting different far out ideas until Sam reassured me that it must’ve been an earthquake. It was so crazy feeling and lasted what felt like about 30 seconds. When we woke up a couple of hours later, the news confirmed that we felt an earthquake.
A photo recreation of how I felt and what I would’ve done if I had been near a door at the time. Maybe.
Then around 10 or so this morning, there was an aftershock that felt worse to me than the original (this may have been since I was sitting at a desk rather than lying in a bed and the fact that I work on the second floor of our building). For a couple of seconds it felt like my desk was just waving. Some people around here felt that one, some people didn’t.
It was a really weird feeling. I’m glad I don’t live in California. I can’t imagine what it must feel like to be in destructive earthquakes!
Jane says:
How scary. We’ve been experiencing what my friends and I call “earthquake weather.” lol. Like it’s crazy hot and sunny one day and the next it’s about to rain. Pretty scary. That’s not normal weather over here. Earthquakes are so scary because you never know when it’s going to come and how long it’ll last… That’s so weird that you had one over there. Glad you’re ok though. =]
April 19th, 2008 at 3:47 pm