Earthquake!!

Last night was one of those nights that someday I will think "when did that happen?" so I am putting it on my blog so I can look it up if I wish. Last night about 11 pm there was a 5.6 earthquake in Oklahoma that was felt in Wichita! It was really quite exciting - I have never been in an earthquake. I lived in California for a year back in 68-69 and there was an earthquake when I was there but I was asleep and missed it. But last night I watched K-state lose a fabulous game against #3 Oklahoma State. I have never been prouder of a losing effort - they really played their hearts out. It ended about 10:45 so I went upstairs and started turning the clocks back for daylight savings time. Worked out just perfect - I was in the bedroom turning the clock back to 10:00 and the news was just coming on because it had been delayed because of the game. The house felt funny and it sounded as if someone was stomping in the bathroom and then there was a very strange buzzing noise. I thought "what in the world" and then it was all over and I was so annoyed because I figured I would never know what caused those events. Then the news came back from a commercial and Larry Hatteburg said "folks - we just had an earthquake here in Wichita" I was so excited! I grabbed my phone and went on Twitter to announce I had just experienced my first earthquake. Of course everyone in Wichita that is on Twitter was doing the same thing. It was such fun to read all the tweets - at first it was just "earthquake" or something similar then people started getting creative and the results were so funny. One tweeted to text a number to donate to the Wichita Earthquake relief fund. That is the thing I love about Twitter - it brings everyone together when something happens. I was up for another hour reading tweets until I finally got to sleep. Dennis was (of course) gone deer hunting. We joke that he is always gone hunting when things happen. He was gone hunting with the tornado hit our old house. Jimmy really felt it at his house but it is older and I am sure the foundation isn't as good as ours. Glad it wasn't serious - I guess there was some damage in Oklahoma.

So I can mark off "feel an earthquake" off my bucket list now. :)