Shake, Rattle and Roll

Yes we experienced the earthquake Friday morning. At 4:36a.m. Erich and I woke up to the house shaking and a low rumbling outside. At first we were very confused. I thought a plane was landing on the house or there was a tornado going down our street. Erich thought the kids were running up and down the stairs or something strange like that. (he's normally confused when he first wakes up anyways so it was a typical morning for him.) Once everything settled down we figured it could have been an earthquake but c'mon...what were the chances? So we turned the t.v. on and there was no reports for about the first 30 minutes. Soon after that they started reporting. What a strange thing to have happen. When you live in central IL you REALLY don't expect to experience and earthquake!! There was an aftershock about 10:15 a.m. but neither I nor Erich felt it. Apparently on the other side of the store that Erich works in, THEY felt it but he nor anyone near his office did. I was on the road at the time so I obviously did not feel anything.