Earthquake!!!

Thursday: 2:24am - I am awakened by the vigorious moving of my bed - but I know that I am not the culprit. It takes a few moments to register that things are NOT normal - and in my subconscious I register the fact that the curtains are moving. But they are not moving in a way that hints at wind - but in a way that one would expect movement on a boat. I sit up - hoping to find the culprit lying on the floor shaking my bed - trying to make sense of this bizarre experience. Within seconds I feel very ill as I watch and feel my room move like a boat on some ways. Finally it registers - though it seems like such an impossibility I feel the need to immediately call for Katharine. To make sure I am not insane. But I am not. It is an earthquake!! The house continues to shake - and I glance out the window to see the walls moving - and our house is swaying like it is on water. I start to feel slightly seasick. After about a minute - the moving stops. And then silence.

Within minutes the cellphone networks are so busy that you are lucky if you get a call through. There is no internet - but we are one of the ones with power. Others don't have any. It is not until the next morning that we find out exactly what it was.

I had to go to sleep with the light on. I have felt shakes like before - but never to that extent. Wow - it is just amazing to me that the firm thing (or what I think is firm) really isn't. I think it is a call to attention when you get things like that. Nothing here is firm. We need God.

\manda