My hometown is the epicenter of today's earthquake - ask me anything!

[AwakeAtLast]

It is soooo weird seeing your tiny little town on every news channel. :wow:

[PeaceNikki]

1. Where were you when "The Great West Salem Earthquake of 2008®" happened?

[AwakeAtLast]

3. I was asleep in my bed - I slept through it

because I now live in Central Indiana. Mom & Dad however, were shaken almost out of their beds! They also felt the aftershock at 11:15 today, too.

:hi:

[PeaceNikki]

5. Any injuries or damage reported by Mom & Dad?

[AwakeAtLast]

9. They are fine, although I think a few cows fell over

That's the ultimate cow tip! :rofl:

There was more damage further away for some reason, don't know why. :shrug:

[NightWatcher]

2. what's shakin?

[AwakeAtLast]

4. Well, hopefully not West Salem anymore

My Mom will be glad when the aftershocks are over.

[NightWatcher]

7. I experienced the Atlanta earthquake from April 29, 2003

kinda close to the date, hmmmm
it was a 4.9

[AwakeAtLast]

10. Since they don't happen in the Midwest very often, they are kind of jarring

It's been the talk of the town!

[NewJeffCT]

6. Did you see the mushroom cloud?

According to Russian news services, it was a nuclear explosion when a dissident faction of the military stole an airplane that was shot down.

[AwakeAtLast]

8. Nope. I don't like mushrooms

:silly:

[Adsos Letter]

11. Well...

your username is appropriate... :rofl:

I live in California...it is an ongoing phenomenon here. :hi:

[AwakeAtLast]

16. It's good that I don't live in CA

Not fun.

:hi:

[yellowdogintexas]

12. I have actually been to West Salem, Illinois

back when Mr Yellowdog was doing wellsite geology in the Illinois Basin.

I bet it was pretty weird ..we had one in 1968 when I was in college in Owensboro Ky which was centered over in that area. Pretty strange.

[AwakeAtLast]

13. We had an oil well in our backyard

It wasn't a specatular producer unfortunately. We have quite a few on our family's farm ground, though.

I can't believe someone I am posting with has been there! It is truly a place you have to be going to in order to visit. You don't just happen to bump into it, do you?

You will be surprised to hear this....it hasn't changed a bit since you were there! :D

:hi:

[yellowdogintexas]

20. not in the least bit surprised, places like that do not change much

my little town of 200 in Kentucky still looks like it always did.

I have driven all over that part of Southern Illinois in the Illinois Basin period of Mr Yellowdog's career.
We lived in Evansville at the time

he worked a lot of wells that weren't huge producers, just plodded along. I thought they were terribly smelly when I first went up there, but since that was his paycheck, it started to smell pretty good.

are they reworking many wells up there with horizontal drilling? That is all the rage down here; new wells and reworked too

[AwakeAtLast]

22. No, I don't think so

Maybe around Petrolia (near Bridgeport) but I don't really know.

[bigwillq]

14. What were you doing at the time?

:shrug:

[AwakeAtLast]

17. Sleeping

I heard something, but thought the cat was jumping off the bed.

[bigwillq]

19. How big is your cat?

:P ;) :)

[AwakeAtLast]

23. You guessed it - she's pretty big

It doesn't matter where you are in the house, you know she has jumped down from something.

:hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. We spent the night there 2 weeks ago on our way down to Houston.

The Comfort Inn...although my son wanted to stay at the Salem Inn right next door because it had balconies. I think it's an old Holiday Inn.

[AwakeAtLast]

18. Ahhh, that happens all the time: West Salem is actually on the east side of IL, Salem on the west.

Don't ask me why that is, but people get confused all the time.

West Salem doesn't have much, so you wouldn't find a hotel there.

I've been to Salem a couple of times, not bad for So. IL.

:hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

25. I grew up right around there (well, lived for a few years) and call the whole place Salem...

It's all the same to me. I don't mean to slam on your city or anything, it's just the same place to us.

[AwakeAtLast]

26. Well, West Salem is not a city - it only has 1100 people

Where around there did you live?

[InvisibleTouch]

21. I missed it. I'm disappointed.

Supposedly I should have felt it here as well, but I guess I was asleep and didn't notice. My dogs didn't wake up either, so it can't have been too dramatic out here.

I experienced a minor one years ago, where you could feel the faint shaking in one room of the house, but not in another. Since there was no damage done, it was actually pretty cool!

[AwakeAtLast]

24. Before is started, Mom's cat wouldn't leave them alone

One of ours came up and licked Mr. WMU's face, I guess trying to get his attention!

Animals are so perceptive!