My bed's shakin' for different reason.

Blizzard
Earthquake
Flood
Hail Storm
Hurricane
Tornado
Volcanic Eruption

Call me crazy but there are natural disasters that I want to say I’ve experienced. Granted that’s horrible since natural disasters cost lives and resources but deep down inside me, I’m always looking forward to one.

Today we had an earthquake. It was early in the morning when I woke up to my bed shaking. You know how when you are driving your car and on windy days, it tosses you around a little? That’s what it felt like. At the time, I thought that it was the wind and that somehow some strong gusts must be transferring their kinetic energy through the walls which touch my bed. Even then, I knew that something like that has never happened before but I was so sleepy that I just dismissed it.

When I woke up, I heard on the radio that there was an earthquake in southern Indiana by Evansville. It was a 5.2 and was strong enough to be felt up here in Michiana. I was just in the middle of saying, “I didn’t feel an…” when it dawned on me that I had, indeed, felt the earthquake. I was excited. Sure, it was small and sure, I didn’t know what it was when I felt it, but it’s good enough for me. Scratch another off my list.

The earthquake was the topic of conversation. “Did you feel it?” “What did it feel like to you?” “Did you see anything move?” There were some people like Ed who said that they didn’t feel anything. I’m sure that many people out there would probably wonder why we were making a big deal about it. After all, the event was so small in this area that it went unnoticed by a large number of people. I think they would have to understand that the Midwest is largely free from seismic activity. In all my time living here, this is the first.