At about 2:30 this morning, my dog went into a state. He paced, he barked, he had the tornado tongue. Only, there was no storm.
Still during storms he finds solace in the little bed in the guest room. We were snuggled there when the house shifted.
The very moment it happened, Gary had rolled over in bed, and I thought for a moment he had broken the house somehow. Then I looked outside to see if a very well-padded semi had hip-checked my house. Then I thought, “Earthquake! Check Twitter!”
No one else tweeted it, so I wasn’t going to call it, but I did report it.
The dog went in the kitchen, peed on the floor, and calmed down. Back to bed. And come to find out it was a earthquake. St. Louis media reported, “Yeah, had an earthquake. But WHAT ABOUT THE FUCKING CICADAS HUH?”
None of the elevators at work had active Seismic alerts.
4 responses to “Early This Morning”
weird. i remember something like that in manhattan a long time ago. i thought a big truck had driven over a steel plate in the road, until i realized that there was no steel plate and i didn’t live on the kind of street that would have big trucks in the wee hours. yup, earthquake.
We only had a couple folks here that felt it. I slept right through the earthquake. It has made me redouble my efforts to finish my emergency box and put it back in the closet. (Which is probably good before I break into the emergency wine and chocolate in the box.)
Worst I was ever in was a 5.5. in California. But I was right near the epicenter and it was very shallow. Scary. I hope never to be in a major quake.
Magpie – In manhattan? What fault is up there? Amy in StL – There is no way I could keep chocolate in an emergency box. You are strong.Hattie – Me too. I know our fault is known for the one big quake that changed the course of the Mississippi, but it hasnt done anything on that scale since the 1800s.