RUMBLE RUMBLE

We were awoken this morning at 4:08 by a 2.6 EARTHQUAKE!!! Here! In Roanoke, VA! It was WILD!

The house literally shook for 3-4 seconds... the windows rattled, the furniture shook, it was loud. And then it stopped. We had no clue what happened... did a tree fall? Did one of the hospital's helicopters crash into the yard? Was there a train crash in the railyard not too far away? Did our A/C unit just explode? ;) We got out of bed and heard my parents in the kitchen. They had no clue what happened so we went outside to see if we could see anything... smoke, fire, hear police/ambulance/fire.... nothing. We thought it was an earthquake but those aren't supposed to happen around here so we turned on the TV to the local stations to see what was going on. Nothing! My dad got on USGS.com and sure enough around 4:40, a listing of a 2.6 earthquake in the Cave Spring area of Roanoke occured at 4:08. The center was about 2 miles away from the house so that is why we felt it harder than others talking about it on Facebook this morning.

As a neurotic child, my parents always told me that tornados & earthquakes couldn't happen in SW Virginia. LIARS!! haha