It was 7:09am when the entire house began shaking\u2026and I mean\nSHAKING! I\u2019d only fallen asleep three hours before that but I went from totally\nasleep to 100% awake in less than a second! Both my husband and I shot up in\nour bed and my husband yelled out, \u201cTHAT\u2019S AN EARTHQUAKE!!!\u201d It felt like everything shook for the longest\ntime (although it was probably only 20 seconds or so\u2026but the longest 20\nseconds ever\u2026) and the sound of the world\nshaking was terrifying. We were experiencing\na 5.7 earthquake, one of the biggest in Utah\u2019s history. The epicenter of the quake was only 20 miles from\nour home and the quake was felt as far as Logan, Utah, which is over two hours\ndrive away. It was nuts!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The quake knocked out power to more than 55,000 people. The airport had to be completely shut down due\nto a waterline break that resulted from the quake and all incoming flights had\nto be diverted in air and the entire airport had to be evacuated. The world famous Salt Lake Temple located downtown\neven sustained damage and the trumpet off the Angel Moroni statue perched at\nthe top the Temple\u2019s spire broke off and fell during the quake. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Immediately after the first quake my children and I got on a\ncall and agreed they would jump in their cars and get right to our house so we\ncould all be together. My daughter Ashley texted all of us a few minutes later\nto say she was getting McDonalds breakfast on her way to our house because if\nit would be our last meal she felt it would be fitting that for our family it should\nbe McDonald\u2019s (\u2026don\u2019t judge\u2026we love it!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We stayed together at our home the rest of the day experiencing aftershock after aftershock (90 total aftershocks!!). They just kept coming with the largest aftershock quakes being a 4.5 that occurred at 8:02am and a 4.6 earthquake that occurred at 1:12pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m not going to lie \u2013 it\u2019s been a bit terrifying\u2026\u00a0 When the earthquake hits – your fight or flight instinct kicks in but you know you can\u2019t fight it, and you realize taking flight won\u2019t make it stop \u2013 the best way I can describe the feeling is that its similar to that feeling you get in your stomach when you step off a ledge without realizing and you get that falling feeling of terror for a second \u2013 it\u2019s just like that.\u00a0 And the worst part is that even after the quake stopped the feeling didn\u2019t go away because you find yourself bracing on edge all day waiting for the next quake to hit\u2026it\u2019s a most unsettling feeling… I wonder how many days it\u2019s gonna take for the uneasy feeling to go away where I\u2019m not bracing for the next quake to hit…hopefully not many…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve done pretty good to keep myself focused on the positive during this Coronavirus Pandemic, the stock market crash, and this period of lockdown, but when this earthquake hit today I was like \u201cCOME ON ALREADY!!!!!!! What\u2019s next??? Our pet\u2019s heads falling off???!!!\u201d \u00a0But then I reminded myself that getting negative won\u2019t help anything\u2026that\u2019s when I decided to end our day by ordering \u201cShake Shack\u201d burgers (emphasis on the word\u201cShake\u201d) for dinner tonight in honor of today\u2019s earthquakes\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n