Shake rattle roll

It shook me awake this morning and I said "Was that an earthquake?!" My wife just told me to shut up and go back to bed.

It shook me awake this morning and I said "Was that an earthquake?!" My wife just told me to shut up and go back to bed.

You should call her, just to say, "nyah!"

I slept right through it ... Mary was up and said she could just barely feel the floor rattling and thought it was a truck going by.

Now you and I are in the same neighborhood and it shook my house pretty good. My house is pretty rickety though. My first reaction played into my dreams - I thought there was a big dog at the foot of my bed scratching behind it's ears - and I don't have a dog. Once awake, it was unmistakable as an earthquake. Could it have anything to do with my house being on the edge of a hill?

It woke me and the hubby up and I convinced him it was just the wind blowing outside... later he enjoyed pointing out how wrong I was.... The thing the really got me was the aftershock around 11:15. I am several stories up in a buidling downtown and everything started swaying. I got seasick for a minute before I realized what was happening....

Thunder Under Louisville: The new beginning...

Take care all!
Kim

It shook me awake this morning and I said "Was that an earthquake?!" My wife just told me to shut up and go back to bed.

My wife did the EXACT same thing! Where do we get these women!

[Robin Garr]

Now you and I are in the same neighborhood and it shook my house pretty good. My house is pretty rickety though. My first reaction played into my dreams - I thought there was a big dog at the foot of my bed scratching behind it's ears - and I don't have a dog. Once awake, it was unmistakable as an earthquake. Could it have anything to do with my house being on the edge of a hill?

That's so funny, because we are RIGHT where the top of the hill ends on the Grinstead side, and the street plunges down just past us. I attributed our non-shaking to all that rock underneath.

Maybe I just sleep deeply? Normally, earthquakes wake me right up, because I was in a pretty hard-shaking area for the Los Angeles-area Sylmar quake of '71, and it scared the bejeezus out of me.

Our house was very well shaken: our four-poster bed on the second floor was actually swaying. I'm guessing we felt it even stronger as the headboard on our bed is on a structural wall that goes all the way down to the foundation. bed As a Bay Area native, I knew immediately what it was, but then reminded myself that I was in Louisville and so second-guessed that there might be something else going on...

Guess growing up in earthquake country gave me a knowledge I never realized I had: I told Brian tthat I thought it was a 5.0 when we went back to bed, and sure enough found out I was right when I turned on the news at 7:45.
Deb

Our house was very well shaken: our four-poster bed on the second floor was actually swaying. I'm guessing we felt it even stronger as the headboard on our bed is on a structural wall that goes all the way down to the foundation. bed As a Bay Area native, I knew immediately what it was, but then reminded myself that I was in Louisville and so second-guessed that there might be something else going on...

Guess growing up in earthquake country gave me a knowledge I never realized I had: I told Brian tthat I thought it was a 5.0 when we went back to bed, and sure enough found out I was right when I turned on the news at 7:45.
Deb

I've talked to many people and those that seem to have felt the shaking were 2nd floor-ers. My house only has one floor and I'm a heavy sleeper, so would have slept through it. But the cat licked my nose at 5:40 so I was awake for the big event -- thought it was a train at first (crescent hill) but was obvious after a second of two that it wasn't. That after shock at 11:15 actually bothered me more. I was in my 3rd story office in Butchertown and the joint was moving! Kinda hoped the shaking was due to a stampede of porkers on the lam, but no such luck.

I'm on the third floor out in Crestwood and it was really rocking me. My cats woke me first then my alarm went off. No getting back to sleep after that!

Funny timing - Business First today has an article on earthquake insurance.

That's funny! My super cool boss pointed that out to me today. And then our UPS guy came in to tell us something about his daughter having a safety-awareness class about earthquakes yesterday. Seems to be a reoccuring theme in some lives.

Funny - I couldn't feel a thing out in La Grange, but Crestwood and Westport felt a lot. Perhaps the 4" memory foam on our bed did its job and absorbed the shock

Well my husband was in the basement sending off early work emails and felt it enough to send him flying up to the second floor to herd me and the dogs out of the house. Usually this is the season that sends him rushing into the house from the barn or something to herd us into the basement, whereupon he collects the big flashlight and stands in the back yard looking for tornadoes.

2nd floor here...definitely sway-ey, YIKES!

That's so funny, because we are RIGHT where the top of the hill ends on the Grinstead side, and the street plunges down just past us. I attributed our non-shaking to all that rock underneath.

I felt the quake at home, but I did not feel the aftershocks at work (none of us did, actually). Considering Robin's description, I must work on that same hill. So....I think I know where I want to be in the next earthquake. Crescent Hill- the last bastion of Louisvillians everywhere!

The quake woke us both up and I stumbled over to open the door. Our two doggies rushed in with Eddie, our border collie mix, laying down and panting and Josie, our red girl, hiding behind the door while she gave me her, "Should I be scared?" expression. Altho I knew what it was, still I yelled at Jim, "What is it?" He got his clothes and I just stood there in my nightie, trying to figure out what I ought to be doing. We had definitely felt this thing but it seemed over so I went back to bed. This was really an exciting way to start our 10th Anniversary!