Are They All Yours Blog - Rumblings in the night

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Posted by: drewberk	4/17/2008
I woke up this morning at 4:37 AM to the sound of my wife screaming "Drew! Something... DREW EARTHQUAKE!!!!" I awoke to what sounded like peals of thunder outside and my bed bumping around like a washing machine who's spin cycle is out of balance. Amy was beside herself not knowing whether to grab Micah from his bed or run downstairs and wake the children before they were crushed. In my soberminded 4:30 AM way, (aren't all fathers soberminded at 4:30 AM in the middle of their first earthquake?), I encouraged her to wait and not wake anyone just yet as it seemed things were settling down and not getting worse. She paused and indeed it seemed things were slowing down. In a few more seconds everything was still again. I laid down while Amy stood guard for another minute or two. When she laid down I suggested that maybe it would be a good school project for us to study earthquakes and figure out what in the world we were supposed to do next time if it were worse. For those who are wondering, it felt like everything below the first 10 feet of soil was moving about 30 MPH as we just bounced around on top of it while it went by. This morning the first thing I did was go to Google news to see just how big a quake that was and if it even made the headlines. I'm from Texas and have never experienced anything like that before, so I really didn't know how big it was. Sure enough it was the second article on the front page: "5.2 Earthquake rocks large region of Midwest". I wonder what Amy's parent's will think if this happens again next week? :-)

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Re: Rumblings in the night	By Donald (as in Duck) on 4/18/2008
So, this is what it means to B-L-O-G... God bless you as you trust the Lord to keep you through the ripples....

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