Earthquake

A belated post. I had this all typed up on the 18th, but didn't get a chance to publish. Here goes:

I never thought I'd experience an earthquake living in the Midwest. These parts are where tornadoes happen or sometimes flash floods, and I've seen warnings for lots and lots of those. But it just so happened that today I felt the first major earthquake in the area in 200 years!

That's right, a 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck the Wabash Valley fault system in Southern Illinois at 4:30am and then we felt a pretty big aftershock at 10:30am. It was pretty scary the first time around - the bed was shaking, the closet doors were rattling, and we had no idea what was going on. The second time around, I still hadn't heard it was a earthquake, but I was feeding Taylor in bed and everything started shaking again. She just looked up at me and gave me the widest milky little grin. :) I think she thought it was a pretty neat trick I was doing, shaking the bed like that. I don't think Phoebe reacted at all, silly dog.

See the ABCNews story, Wikipedia, or articles on STLToday.com.