The wind is blowing so hard, my bed is shaking

[lunda]

Is what I thought when I was woken up very early this morning because the 85-year-old window next to my bed was rattling hard like it does when the wind is coming in from the east. And my bed was shaking. I couldn't quite figure out how the rattling window was making my bed shake, but it was

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[aviendiora]

Heh...I move from the Midwest to California and y'all get the earthquake instead of me. =)

Glad everything is okay!

[lunda]

Hee. I thought of you guys and how you must have felt when you first went through one (or will feel when you first go through one!).

[ladysilverlark]

I remember being in a few as a child. One here is IL. I was out side handing tools to my dad while he was fixing the car. I was maybe 6 or 7 years old. You could see the water moving in the cup on the ground. And then a few more small ones with visiting my Great Aunt in California.

[lunda]

Did you guys feel it?

[ladysilverlark]

I noticed it. My dad noticed it after he say the water moving.

[ladysilverlark]

Some times news programs are useful. The earthquake that I felt with my dad was June of 1987.

[vampirefan]

i was sound asleep! tricia called me at 6am to tell me about how she felt it. she said it was a weird sensation...

[lunda]

I'm like the Princess and the Pea. Everything wakes me up: light, sound, earthquakes :)

[ladysilverlark]

Good thing you don't live at my place then you would get no sleep. We live very close to train tracks. They are behind the house on the other side of the street. We get both commuters and freight trains. And the upstairs shakes pretty good when a heavy freight train goes by. In fact I can see the trains go by from my living room windows. I an sure when Mattias gets older he is going to love watching the trains go by.

[lunda]

That's funny. In college, I lived three house down from the train tracks and was fine. But now, I'm guessing that would be not so much!

I bet Mattias will love watching the trains. My cousin's son was completely enthralled by trains when he was little.

[meryddian]

I wondered about that myself, as Rogue has been extra po'd towards Kaylee for the past 36 hours.

And then she calmed down again this morning. o.O ! Cats.

[lunda]

Pumpkin's yowling has been waking me up between 3:15 and 4:30 all week. So, I wonder if he knew something was up or on its way.

[sparky77]

The was one in outside of Chicago when I first came back, but I was the only person I know who felt it and everyone else thought I was insane until it was on the news and then I felt very smug.

[lunda]

Smug is good. Bummed I missed that one. I guess there was an aftershock this morning, but, sadly, I didn't feel it. Or since my floor at work vibrates whenever there is construction going on in the area or even if someone walks by my cube, maybe I just thought it was that.

The shaking early this morning was kind of cool, since I'd never experienced it before and I was safe in bed and mostly asleep.