Earthquake

Kris left this morning around 5 am and afterwards I fell into a deep sleep. At 5:38 am I woke up to our house shaking, rattling, and rolling like crazy! The dressers were moving, the ceiling fan looked like it wanted to break free, and the amount of noise outside was incredible! Terrified, I lay very still for about 1.5 minutes until it all stopped. I had no idea if I was dreaming or hallucinating, but either way, I was freaked out! I called Kris, who was on his way to work, to ask if he'd felt anything. Of course he said no, so I was even more convinced that I'd gone crazy! I swore it was an earthquake and being as early as it was, there was no one to confirm my suspicions! When I woke up this morning, I logged on to facebook to see Leslie Galema's status say something about an earthquake as well. Now I knew I wasn't nutty! I called Mom and she confirmed! A 5.4 earthquake hit Illinois at 5:37 am...the largest in over 40 years. The quake was felt in many neighboring states and I'm sure scared thousands of people to death, like it did me! Fortunately no one was hurt and the only thing lost here was sleep! I must say, I've felt them before, but that was by far the largest and scariest...especially since I was home alone :-(