We have had an interesting week with natural occurrences here in the southeast. You midwesterners will laugh, but we have had quite a snowstorm. Didn't get the 8-12 inches originally forecast, but we did get about 6 total - the first two melted after the first wave of the storm, and the rest was pushed down by ice. And the storm lasted over 48 hours, which is very unusual for the south.
The neighbors called and offered their four-wheelers - Mary Lee (who came home for the duration) and Mike went out to enjoy them.
Then, late Friday night, we received . . . an earthquake!! I had gone to bed and heard this massive shaking sound, and also what sounded like someone who weighed about 500 pounds running up and down our hallway. We live near a small airport so thought maybe a plane was making too low an approach, but that didn't sound right either. I went out and asked Mike and he said the only thing that could have caused that kind of shaking and noise was an earthquake. A few minutes later the U.S. Geologic Survey had it on their website--it was 4.1 magnitude and centered in Edgefield, which is about an hour and a half from here. (For you history and political buffs, that is also the birthplace and burial place of Senator Strom Thurmond.) The quake was not big enough to cause much damage, but definitely big enough to experience.
Rhoda is here now, spending a three-day weekend with Mom and Dad. Hopefully it will be a quiet and peaceful weekend!
Have any of you ever been in an earthquake?
