Was that the Skid-steer?

I totally forgot that I wanted to blog about this until I saw a similar post on my cousin Sarah's blog. Thanks for reminding me Sarah! What an experience we had Tuesday night this week. To start with, let me say that we got a decent amount snow Monday & Tuesday.

Early Wednesday morning, I was woken up by the clanging sound of the skid-steer clearing off the driveways in our subdivision. I was so irritated. As I laid there, I just kept thinking, "so help me, if all that noise wakes up Tessa, I'm going to go out there and scream at that guy." I looked at the clock, this was about 3:55 am. A few minutes later, as I was laying there, trying to go back to sleep, I experienced something I had never experienced before: my house started shaking. This was serious shaking. Our headboard was banging against the wall, the baby monitor fell off the nightstand and I watched as our bedroom shook all around!

I immediately grabbed David and shook him (who slept through the whole thing) and said, "David! Wake up! The skid-steer just hit our house!" He was totally confused, and had no idea what I was talking about. I just kept saying over and over that something hit our house because our house was shaking. Then I got up out of bed and looked out the window and saw that the skid-steer was all the way down the street and couldn't have just hit our house and gotten that far away. David proceeded to tell me that I was dreaming and that I should go back to bed. He certainly did.

I went down the hall and checked on Tessa, she was fine, so I went back to bed. I just laid there, trying to figure out what had just happened. The thought that it was an earthquake immediately came to my mind, but I thought that was just crazy, so I was trying to rationalize what had just happened. I started thinking that maybe our house was just "settling." But then I thought, no, it wouldn't have shook that hard. I just laid there for the longest time trying to figure out how I was going to tell people the next day that my house was shaking in the night. I figured that no one would believe me. Then I started doubting myself, thinking that I actually had been dreaming. Eventually, I fell asleep.

I got up at 5:15 when my alarm went off and went straight downstairs to put on the news. At the same time, I logged into facebook and saw on both the computer and the tv that there had been a 4.3 magnitude earthquake that was centered somewhere near Dekalb at 4:00 am. I was just so glad to know that I wasn't losing my mind! I survived!!