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Updated: 9:59 AM Apr 18, 2008
Area Residents React to Earthquake
Here are some of the e-mails that we received from people all over our viewing area about the earthquake... Posted: 8:44 AM Apr 18, 2008 |
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i didnt wake up but my parents had thought it was a tornado.it was around4:36am . the light fixture and dishes rattled.
my whole house shook for 10 to 15 seconds around 4:35 am. At first I thought a helicopter was going over our house rattling the windows until the bed began to shake. A little startling first thing in the morning.
i thought it was storming it sounded like wind than rain and my husband heard we had a earth quack on his way to work
"My dog woke me up about at 4:30 am and he was whimpering."I thought he needed to be tookin' for a walk but in the morning."About at that time my bed started shaking."
MY HUSBAND DAVID HAD LEFT FOR WORK AT DOLLAR GENERAL. I DECIDED TO WATCH TV. AT 4:39 A.M. THE CHAIR I WAS SITTING BEGAN TO SHAKE, MY YORKIE THOUGHT SOMETHING WAS GOING ON. HE BARKED FOR SEVERAL MINUTES. I HAVE FELT EARTHQUAKE TREMORS BEFORE. IT IS STILL A WEIRD FEELING.
"Im a heavy sleeper but this earthquake woke me up."Then I fell back asleep."
I was awake for the whole thing (which was NOT 5-10 seconds as some reports I've heard are saying). 1st noticed my floor shaking and then tried to figure out why that was. Then it got worse; things started rattling, the dogs started barking, the cats came out of nowhere, windchimes playing beautifully & I sat here looking around the room with only my eyeballs wondering what the heck was going on. The whole thing lasted between 30 & 45 seconds. Once it was over, I got up, opened the front door, to see what the weather was like - NO wind (remember the windchimes?). Figured it HAD to be an earthquake and started trying to find confirmation of that somewhere. Finally found it a bit later. Whew! I'm NOT crazy! What a relief!
I was asleep when all of a sudden I felt the bed shake and the air conditioner rattle. It only lasted for about 5 seconds.Here in Columbia (Adair County)Ky.
I live in an older home and didn't realize it was an earth quake in sleepy Rocky Hill........I thought someone had broken into my house from the noise and popping of the home.......weird.
I woke up to the whole house vibrating as if my 10-year-old son were running and jumping in his room (as he often does-- which jars the whole house). I got up to go find out what he was doing out of bed so early to find him fast asleep. Convinced it was a dream, I went back to bed for the precious hour of rest I had left. When I got to school, I learned it was a quake. Then at my desk-- around 10:15ish...items on my desk (especially the pc monitor) began vibrating...an aftershock, possibly? It was strange!
i live in greenville ky i was woke up at around 4 am bye my dogs barking like crazy.at 4 36 i felt my house shaking and windows rattling and my pictues rattling on the walls my husband and 3 children selpt throw it.i woke him up and told him i thank we just had a earthquake or im going crazy. he told me i was crazy and went back 2 sleep i was glad 2 find out i wasnt.
I missed the big one last night but I work at a lighting showroom & I was sitting here this morning at about 10:15 and the mirrors and the shelves on the walls started shaking! It only lasted for about 5 seconds(that's the way it seemed anyway) but it was weird!
This brings back memories. I was in the 1989 quake that hit in California during the world series. I was only 5, but i remember like it was yesterday. Lets just pray that one that big never hits this area.
I was awaken by my bed shaking but I thought it was my daughter shaking the bed to wake me up for something but when I looked around to see what she wanted, no one was there. My dog was barking though. Our dog sleeps with my daughter. Anyway, later, my daughter got up for school and told me that her bed started shaking and it woke her up and that our dog was barking during it. We started to check the news and calling people. We found out it was an earthquake after speaking to other people. It happened so fast. Thank goodness it wasnt a bad one.
LAST NIGHT APPROX 10:15-10:30, THERE WERE ALSO TREMORS. THE FARM ANIMALS AND DOGS WERE ACTING STRANGLEY LAST NIGHT APPROX 8:00 AND SOME PERIODS THROUGH THE NIGHT BEFORE THE EARLY MORN. QUAKE. I WAS IN LOUISVILLE IN 1968 WHEN THAT ONE HIT- ABOUT THE SAME REACTION.