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I know this sort of thing is very common for those of you in California, but I was awakened to my dog freaking out this morning, which was then immediately followed by an earthquake. My understanding is that no one was hurt and that the damage was fairy minimal, and with that being the case, I have to say that it was pretty fucking cool. Never experienced anything like that before, and it was positively surreal. I'm laying in bed, the house starts to rumble and then stops after a few seconds, and I'm thinking "Holy shit, was that an earthquake? In St. Louis?"
I can imagine that a big quake would be really scary, though. With almost any other sort of natural disaster, there's somewhere you can go and be assured safety. When the ground itself is no longer your friend, though, that's got to be pretty unnerving.
Was really odd that Truman (my dog) was up and about at the time. You always hear about animals having a 6th sense for that sort of thing -- they were even talking about that on the news this morning -- and although the rational part of me thinks that's ridiculous and that it was pure coincidence that Truman was up, it's really intriguing. He gets up in the middle of the night all the time for any of a host of different reasons and rarely bothers to let us know that he's up, but last night he jumped off the bed, spread out and crouched down on the ground, and started this growling/whining sound and just became more insistent with his growling when I asked him what was wrong. A few seconds later, the house started rumbling. Pretty wild.
I can imagine that a big quake would be really scary, though. With almost any other sort of natural disaster, there's somewhere you can go and be assured safety. When the ground itself is no longer your friend, though, that's got to be pretty unnerving.
Was really odd that Truman (my dog) was up and about at the time. You always hear about animals having a 6th sense for that sort of thing -- they were even talking about that on the news this morning -- and although the rational part of me thinks that's ridiculous and that it was pure coincidence that Truman was up, it's really intriguing. He gets up in the middle of the night all the time for any of a host of different reasons and rarely bothers to let us know that he's up, but last night he jumped off the bed, spread out and crouched down on the ground, and started this growling/whining sound and just became more insistent with his growling when I asked him what was wrong. A few seconds later, the house started rumbling. Pretty wild.
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