Shake it up
I was going to post this earlier today, but I taught all morning then had a lunchtime meeting.
I guess there was an earthquake here last night. I found that out this morning when Angela, one of our teachers asked if we felt it. Apparently, around 3:30 this morning, things started shaking. Not enough to knock stuff of shelves or anything, just enough to make it seem like someone was shaking the bed. A couple of other teachers said they felt it, or had relatives who did.
Erin & I did not, we were sleeping like the dead. Erin did say that the cat woke her up being unusually snuggly and weird, but that's not that unusual. Beans is always unpredictable and weird, so I don't think he'd be a very good gauge of changing weather patterns or upcoming natural events.
I was a little disappointed though. I've never felt an earthquake and from the sounds of it, the one last night would be one to be in. Just some mild shaking with no threat of damage or death. That's not to say I hope we have some more, because I really don't, but I guess this just comes from that irrational guy side of me. You know that side. It's the side that thinks it would be cool to get some sort of heavy off-road vehicle and go chase tornadoes.
Ironically, stuff like that sounds like fun, but you could never get me to bungee jump or skydive. My wife is the complete opposite. She was sort of freaked by the knowledge that we slept through mild tremors. Tornadoes and bad weather like that scares her. But she would be completely willing to strap an oversized tablecloth to her back and throw herself out of a perfectly good airplane.
Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
I guess there was an earthquake here last night. I found that out this morning when Angela, one of our teachers asked if we felt it. Apparently, around 3:30 this morning, things started shaking. Not enough to knock stuff of shelves or anything, just enough to make it seem like someone was shaking the bed. A couple of other teachers said they felt it, or had relatives who did.
Erin & I did not, we were sleeping like the dead. Erin did say that the cat woke her up being unusually snuggly and weird, but that's not that unusual. Beans is always unpredictable and weird, so I don't think he'd be a very good gauge of changing weather patterns or upcoming natural events.
I was a little disappointed though. I've never felt an earthquake and from the sounds of it, the one last night would be one to be in. Just some mild shaking with no threat of damage or death. That's not to say I hope we have some more, because I really don't, but I guess this just comes from that irrational guy side of me. You know that side. It's the side that thinks it would be cool to get some sort of heavy off-road vehicle and go chase tornadoes.
Ironically, stuff like that sounds like fun, but you could never get me to bungee jump or skydive. My wife is the complete opposite. She was sort of freaked by the knowledge that we slept through mild tremors. Tornadoes and bad weather like that scares her. But she would be completely willing to strap an oversized tablecloth to her back and throw herself out of a perfectly good airplane.
Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
posted by Travis @ 12:32 AM
1 Comments:
At Saturday, February 10, 2007 10:42:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
I'm with Erin on the scary weather. I hate it. I hated living in St. Louis because of the scary tornado warnings. St. Louis never actually got hit with the tornados, the storm cell always broke up and then got back together before ripping into the Illinois side (which, there is some crazy conspiracy theory out there that claims that there are people in the arch that use radioactive waves to control the weather and that is why the storms always break up. Seriously.). But I always ended up spending a good two hours in the closet, crying, my little dog on my lap, ipod playing Jennifer Knapp, praying that it would not rip apart our house. Part of it was that I am from Colorado, and not use to storms, and part of it was that we had no basement and no storm shelters and were on the top floor. We spent the night at our friends house. Twice. So, I get ya Erin. Storms are scary and not natural. They are cool (I love a good blizzard), but they just remind you of how little you are how big everything else is.
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