Woah, hold on tight!
It doesn't happen often, but the New Madrid fault spoke up again today, around 4:40 am. I slept soundly through it, thank you Ambien. But my youngest, Viktor, woke with a start! When I got up a few hours later he was eager to tell me how it felt "I think there was an explosion around here somewhere Mom! It woke me up around 4:30. But I didn't see any smoke outta any of our windows." Well, that's good, at least our neighbors homes are okay. So we flip on the local news and within a few seconds we had our answer - an earthquake - seriously, an earthquake originating in southern Illinois.
I remember another earthquake from this same fault - it was the day after my daughter was born - I was in the hospital still and my bed (on wheels) rolled away from the wall out into the middle of the room. It was so freaky! I called in the nurse to see that the deal was, and sure enough, it was an earthquake!
The weird thing about an earthquake in North west Indiana is my proximity to Lake Michigan. When I was a teenager, and life was so tenouos and we were always on the verge of nuclear extinction or rapture, I used to have nightmares about Lake Michigan tidal waving all the way to my house five miles inland. So when we get these plate shifts every 20 years or so, I have flashbacks to my calm placid stinky lake surmmounting the dunes and coming to get me. Hopefully the gulleys around my house are deep enough to protect me while I gather my loved ones and small animals and head for higher ground.
I remember another earthquake from this same fault - it was the day after my daughter was born - I was in the hospital still and my bed (on wheels) rolled away from the wall out into the middle of the room. It was so freaky! I called in the nurse to see that the deal was, and sure enough, it was an earthquake!
The weird thing about an earthquake in North west Indiana is my proximity to Lake Michigan. When I was a teenager, and life was so tenouos and we were always on the verge of nuclear extinction or rapture, I used to have nightmares about Lake Michigan tidal waving all the way to my house five miles inland. So when we get these plate shifts every 20 years or so, I have flashbacks to my calm placid stinky lake surmmounting the dunes and coming to get me. Hopefully the gulleys around my house are deep enough to protect me while I gather my loved ones and small animals and head for higher ground.