I’ll Never Sleep Again.
I have this curiosity about earthquakes. It is one of a few dangerous natural occurrences that I want to experience first hand. Growing up in the midwest I’ve been around massive thunderstorms my whole life. I’ve seen tornadoes, been in blizzards, been hit with golf ball-sized hail, watched fields of grass burn from a lightning strike, hell I’ve actually seen lightning strike the top of a car on the highway.
I have never felt anything like an earthquake though, not even a tremor.
Apparently Illinois had an earthquake this morning. A 5.2 quake they say, with tremors felt nearly 450 miles away. Everybody I’ve talked to today is focused on these tremors. Everyone I’ve talked to today, felt these tremors.
“Did you feel them?” they ask me.
I have to report, over and over again that no, I did not. Do you know why I missed out on this life-changing, ground-shaking event?
I was asleep.
The Sandman decided that today David Bickley - a generally light sleeper - would not wake up when the rest of the city felt the ground move. Oh no sirs, he would stay sound asleep dreaming of being a superhero, completely oblivious to this life-altering event.
I’m tired of the lack of earthquake experience in my life.
I’m going to San Francisco, where the earthquakes flow like wine.
Adios.
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April 22nd, 2008 15:48
Well if you didn’t stay up until the wee hours of the morning trying to figure out HOW to be a super hero, you may not have been dead to the fabulous thrill of being shaken awake by something unseen.
Oh the change rattled in the glass container on my dresser. The siding outside creaked and flapped against the walls. Thought I put a quarter in the hotel bed for a 1 minute massage. It was like being in a thunderstorm where the thunder was so loud it shook the whole house but much longer. Very eerie sensation!!
Oh the thrill of be rattled awake at 4:18 in the morning not fully understanding what was happening until it was over.
There will be more Count on it……
April 22nd, 2008 18:22
Being a mother of three teenage girls professing that I can hear everything, know everything, because I AM the Super Hero Mother. Claiming to always know if teenagers were sneaking in or out of the house. I am now relinquishing my Super Hero crown for I too slept through the earthquake!