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Apr. 18th, 2008

  • 5:12 AM
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Earthquake!!!!

5.4 (so my sister heard on the radio)!!

I would have slept through the bed shaking but it woke Pete up and all the handles on our dressers started rattling. Cats freaked and jumped off the bed. After it had all died down we heard Kevin's door open and a little voice say "Why is the earth shaking?" It woke the baby up too--but hey, I was supposed to wake him up at 5:30 for a feeding anyway, so no biggie. Is there a place in the baby book for Baby's First Earthquake?

Best quote:

Kevin said "Why didn't [info]quasigeostrophy warn us?"
We told him that he does weather, not earthquakes. :-)

Ok, kids back asleep. Must try to do the same.

Comments

[info]quasigeostrophy wrote:
Apr. 18th, 2008 11:32 am (UTC)
Oddly enough, the same equations are used by both geologists and meteorologists. Despite the term "solid earth", both are really fluids. Mine are just a lot thinner and move a lot faster. A lot faster. :-) I'm sure some of my colleagues in the other half of my department at Purdue are going ga-ga about it this morning.
[info]datagoddess wrote:
Apr. 18th, 2008 11:51 am (UTC)
Oh, poor Kevin in that raised up bed, I bet he was scared while it was happening, poor guy.
[info]gremlin44 wrote:
Apr. 18th, 2008 04:00 pm (UTC)
Actually he was barely awake when he came out to ask us and showed no fear at all. More curious. I suspect that if he had been really scared he would have called for us instead of coming down to our room.

I suspect Gabey just figured it was normal. Weird shit happens around him all the time that he can't explain anyway. :-)
[info]lightning_rose wrote:
Apr. 18th, 2008 04:49 pm (UTC)

I know just how Gabey feels. ;)

[info]klwalton wrote:
Apr. 18th, 2008 06:53 pm (UTC)
Is there a place in the baby book for Baby's First Earthquake?

I'll check out the Hallmark stores here in California :).

[info]purplerifka wrote:
Apr. 19th, 2008 03:21 am (UTC)
Kevin said "Why didn't quasigeostrophy warn us?"

that's great. have i told you how great i think Kevin is and how much i want to meet him (and his parents and little brother)
[info]inkedmamajama wrote:
Apr. 19th, 2008 02:50 pm (UTC)
we felt it too-shook our entire house but good. the girls asked me why the house was shaking and i told them, its not go back to sleep-i was out of it on cold meds, lol

the aftershock at 10ish was a BIG one for us, also shook our house.
[info]cornflakegirl wrote:
Apr. 19th, 2008 03:36 pm (UTC)
I was completely unaware of it.

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