EARTHQUAKE!!!!

in 32 yrs this is my first memorable experience w/ an earthquake. my mom tells me there was one when i was a tot and skeeter says his parents have told him of one in the 70s before he was born, so they may be speaking of one and the same.

all i know is, i don't have to ever experience another one in my lifetime! about an hour before it happened tatertot started whimpering in her sleep and then stood straight up and started screaming, eyes still closed....she immediately fell back to sleep when skeeter picked her up.

then an hour later skeeter and i were shaken awake, sat straight up, eyes wide. i looked out the window it was eerily quiet w/ the exception of the semi going by at the time. i was thinking there is no way that is making the building shake like this. we scrambled for the kids..tatertot asleep next to our bed, didn't budge. bam-bam...didn't budge. the older girls, didn't budge. it was over as soon as it began. the phone started ringing. it took the news over 10mins to give report.

final say at this point is a 5.2 mag quake centered about 150miles east of here. wow. the quake they keep predicting on the new madrid fault is now more real to us and i seriously can take a raincheck!