Friday, October 31, 2008

Stranger Things Have Happened???

This morning I woke to find out that there had been a couple of earthquakes in the middle of the night...yup, in Texas. Believe it. Or not. It's not like it's never happened before, it's just that I've never heard of one here. Plus, the epicenters of the two that are being talked about most are within a couple of miles of my home. I guess like thunderstorms though, I just slept right on through them.

Tonight as I was driving home from shopping with my kids, I had to drive over a bridge that is quite high in the air, the kind that is part of a mixmaster of highway intersections. Knowing that there were earthquakes here this morning, had me re-thinking the decision to be on a bridge that high. I managed not to panic and made it off the bridge and home safely.

How big were these quakes, you may ask? The biggest was a 3.1 on the Richter scale. Yeah yeah, I can hear you California people laughing at me...

7 comments:

Joan said...

I think an earthquake would freak me out alittle. Glad you were ok though.

God Bless

Unknown said...

We live in Dallas. I've never felt an earthquake before and really never want to! I wouldn't have gotten on that bridge either!LOL

Becky said...

You know, in all the earthquakes we've been through in California, I've never ONCE thought about it being dangerous to cross any of the bridges in my area.

Maybe I should, lol!

Jenster said...

I'm like Becky - growing up in earthquakeland I never think much about that sort of thing. We had a small earthquake when I lived in Arkansas once and it was kind of surreal to me - like it wasn't supposed to happen there. lol

Susan said...

We had an earthquake in Atlanta one time and it was way weird! It was the talk of the week.

Chelle' said...

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I'm HONORED. Thanks so much for including me.

Sorry to hear about the earth quakes... have to tell you that I too would be a bit uncomfortable on bridges that high. :-)

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Gretchen said...

Heck, our Alaskan Way viaduct still hasn't been fixed since the 6.8 earthquake 8 years ago. Cracks, shmacks. I wasn't living here yet, but my hubby was working here and forced his 6'4" frame underneath his desk. Glad all is well with you, though.