So what happens when you stay up late one night after everyone else has gone to bed? And the answer is not "see Santa". The correct answer is "feel your first earthquake". Yes, you read that correctly, earthquake!
I was laying on the couch using the laptop and I felt the couch shaking. I paused to see if it was really moving or just my imagination and sure enough it was moving. For about 5 seconds, it was moving enough for me to feel the rocking.
I thought one of my boys might be pushing on the couch being silly, so I got up, but no one else was in the room. It was quite disconcerting; I couldn't figure out what had been moving the couch. The best I could come up with was the support that Stephen and JR had fixed in the couch when we got the couch had broken and it was shaking from instability. But it didn't seem like a very good explanation.
Low and behold, after checking online resources (USGS site), at approximately 10:53 pm local time a 5.2 earthquake hit about 70 miles outside of Oklahoma. I checked with some local friends here in Little Elm and I wasn't the only one who felt the shaking.
It felt very weird! That was my first earthquake. Glad it was a little one. (Mark/Elaine felt it much stronger in OK, according to Facebook conversation.)
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