October 13, 2010
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No Pictures, but guess what???
While I was sitting at my desk this morning, the house began to shake.
Dummy me, I think, “I wonder if that’s a sonic boom?”
Of course, there was no sound and I quickly realized my stupidity.
Then chills ran though me, as I remembered the sensation of the building shaking when downtown Oklahoma City was bombed, April 19th. I paused, reluctantly went to the window that faced downtown, looked to see if there was smoke rising in the sky and did a 360° to see if smoke was ANYwhere.
There wasn’t.
By now, the girls are discussing arguing among themselves *WHO* slammed a door and rocked the house.
That’s when the thought hit me,
“I wonder if we just had an earthquake?”
I’m no stranger to them, having grown up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and I had a vaguely familiar sensation within me. We have frequent earthquakes in cities around us, and most people don’t know it. They are so low 1.something, or 2.something, on the Richter scale. The news usually reports what only a few people feel.
I turned on the T.V. in time to hear the local newsmen saying,
“We just experienced an unconfirmed earthquake of a 5.4 magnitude. Details to follow.”
WOW!
That’s a big earthquake and, for Oklahoma, it’s an off the records unusual event!!
I told my girls to remember the day and we would study (sometime soon) what makes an earthquake happen.
I want them to never forget, what I hope to be, a one time experience for them.
Be Blessed ~
Comments (6)
Scary stuff, glad no one was harmed. Thank God for that blessing.
We even felt it down here along the Red River–strange thing for this part of the country
Wow… We’ve had an earthquake here a time or two, nothing to write home about though. Hope you’re doing well!
Glad you are all OK. We had an earthquake on a Sunday afternoon when I lived in KY as a girl. As I recal, it was only on the high end of a 3. something, or else on the low end of a 4. something. I know it wasn’t considered very big/strong, but I definitely still remember it!!! We were used to our house shaking when they did the explosions for a nearby coal mine, but that NEVER happened on Sunday, so it was like, “Huh?! What is going on?!” and then the next day it was in the newspaper.
I want to say how exciting but I know that seems strange as earthquakes are really quite scary, however I grow up with them in California also and though I saw much saddness from the one that hit Granada Hills (my dear friends house split in half) I still can’t get it out of my blood that they are pretty exciting too. This probably makes no sense but I feel the same way about tornado’s now that I live in Mo. Maybe it is that I have become so dependent on trusting the Lord that I can feel so at ease with these types of happenings. I have not forgotten how to be humbled though when someone I love is hurting because of them. I am going to press the bottom now if you want to quit being friends I will understand why.
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Quit being friends? Nah! I find ALL weather to be exciting! It’s such a miracle to watch our planet and everything work together, orchestrated for good and what appears bad. Any loss of human life is always sad, but, I understood exactly what you meant!