Earthquake

Chip woke me up at six something this morning to tell me that there had been a large earthquake in Mt. Carmel, Il. in the middle of the night.  My dad's sister and her family, all my cousins and their families live in Mt. Carmel and the surrounding area.  Reports are that there are no casualties so I'm not immediately worried, but am waiting to hear word from them.  I'm told some in the KC area felt the rumble.  I did not, but a couple of my dogs are acting a bit strange this morning.  They're acting very needy and they have the scared eyes.

Comments

[Laura]

Oh my gosh. Where is Mt Carmel? Near Chicago? I could look it up I guess.

About 16 1/2 yrs ago there was a guy who had a theory about an earthquake that was supposed to happen along the fault line that runs through the St. Louis area and we lived there at the time. The quake didn't happen but everybody really did a lot of prevention measures (securing filing cabinets, etc) in case of something crazy like that.

What was the Richter scale of it?

[Leslie]

Weird to think of earthquakes so close to home. Hope your family is O.K.!

[shannon in oregon]

Hope you have heard from the family and all is well.

We've had a few quakes since living in Portland. I've only felt one. Kev's never felt any of them.

[dawn]

All ok Kyra? Sure hope so. Read your past few posts. Stick with what makes you happy girl. Life is toooo short. You have a wonderful thing going with letting your creativity fly on Etsy...Keep letting it flow, and take the best care of you that you can. Inside and out. Sometimes the husbands just say really really dumb things. It's the eighth wonder of the world that we understand each other at all! I don't love to exercise either. We get older, need more muscle to burn those calories. I just joined a "girl-gym". 30m mins-- you know the ones... you can live through anything for 30 mins! Especially with the GREAT music ( snicker-- toot toot, heeeeey, beep beep!)Hang in there sister! email me if you want. xo