Earthquake!

This past week, Winston-Salem was hit by some earthquakes.  The first happened in the middle of the night Tuesday.  It woke me up.  My immediate thought was that this was what i expected an earthquake to feel like, but i dismissed that notion and figured it was just one of those big-sky thunder-rumbles you hear.  The long, rolling percussive effect when thunder seems to be taking up the entire sky.  We were expecting rain that night, so it had to be thunder.

I was back asleep within seconds, and would not have even remembered the episode.  Didn't give it another thought until Julie asked me later that afternoon if i knew that we had an earthquake.  So i was right!  Must have been an instinctive notion, my sub-conscious discerning that the rumble was from the ground up, not from the sky down.

It only measured 2.8 on richter, so my west coast friends may scoff.  These are noted only for their novelty, not for their impact.  No damage at the house, but there was reported damage at the mall stores.

Later that day, in primetime, we felt another rumble, also a 2.8.  It freaked out the kids, and they didn't want to be upstairs by themselves.