Shaking Things up a Bit

Good Sabbath morning to all.
I thought I would post a note about the earthquake that we had occasion to experience here Friday morning.
Dad and I were up having coffee and watching Fox news, and around 4:39 our couch that we were perched on started to move side to side, sort of a gentle rocking motion. Dad looked at me as if I had done something to cause this motion. But, Alas, I was sitting quietly, sipping my morning Joe, and trying to listen to the news.
At first I thought it was just me, being a dizzy dame, and then realized this felt faintly familiar.
Being I am from California, I realized what was happening. I looked at our entertainment center, and could see it slightly moving from side to side.
Now I would like to say that I was all wise and totally composed. Actually, I was wondering, if this thing was going to pick up intensity, or if this was just the first one, and a bigger one was to follow. At this juncture, dad gets up and looks out the door. What he was looking for I am not sure, but maybe he wanted to see if anyone else was up and had noticed it too. who knows.
Now Bella, our WATCH DOG, was sleeping next to me on the couch and she didn't even stir. (she obviously is not a California Dog).
My next thought was.. "OH no.. my china." I envisioned another earthquake to follow and went to the cabinet to protect my dishes.. Exactly was I was suppose to do if the whole thing toppled over on me, I am not sure about, but I was going to try. Aren't we all glad that didn't happen, can you envision the scene here. OH WELL !! The article in the evening paper could have read, " Woman Dies in Attempt to Save China". (OK so maybe that's not so funny after all, but doesn't it sound like a Nobel thing?)
Dad was checking for news, just to make sure it was indeed an earthquake, and not just our house settling.. anyway he had the TV on the fox news, he had his police scanner on, and I think even his handheld CB radio on. But he found nothing. I finally suggested to check the local station.. (HEY, made sense to me.. Fox is not local.. duh..)
As it turned out it was a 5.2 centered on the ill.-Ind. border, and was about 230 miles East or north east. Really anything more than 25 miles out, doesn't even get honorable mention. But that was our excitement.
I remember so many years, as we would prepare to go out to visit loved ones in California, that Grandma Trumbo, would always invite us over to dinner, the day before we left. She had mentioned several times that she was afraid that we might get into a big old earthquake. We never did, but she was concerned. One thing is for sure, she is a really good cook, and I really appreciated not having to cook the day before we left.
I found out that some of the people who live in trailers felt the earth move more than those in homes built on a slab.
One lady told me that she thought some deer had come up to her home, and was rubbing their behinds on her trailer.
Another lady told me that she could hear the lamp in her sons room rocking, and she thought his room was haunted.
Most people had good enough sense to be asleep and totally unaware that anything happened at all.
well, just goes to show, if you don't get up early enough, you could very well miss out on all the best excitement...


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