Jolt Country

No, it's not just Flack walking around in his storm shelter, it was an earthquake. The second largest in OK's history.

This morning they upgraded it to 5.6, making it the strongest earthquake ever recorded in Oklahoma.

The rumble (both the feeling and the noise) lasted somewhere between 15-20 seconds here. This was the first earthquake I ever experienced, and the sensation was quite unique. I didn't notice the house shaking as much as it was vibrating. By the time I figured out what was going on, I ran out to the living room (I was laying in bed) and it was over.

It's kind of weird timing because if this had happened a month or so ago it probably would have knocked over a bunch of precariously perched action figures over at the old house. As it is, there's nothing in the old house, and most of our things (including my action figure collection) are boxed up at the moment, so there really wasn't anything to fall over at the new house.

Flack wrote:It's kind of weird timing because if this had happened a month or so ago it probably would have knocked over a bunch of precariously perched action figures over at the old house. As it is, there's nothing in the old house, and most of our things (including my action figure collection) are boxed up at the moment, so there really wasn't anything to fall over at the new house.

god works in mysterious weighs lol

Mason and I made this last night.

Oh, that. Yeah, we've had earthquakes 3 days in a row now.

The earth is spitting in two in Oklahoma for chrissakes.

The big thing on the new right now is Earthquake Insurance. Apparently people are scrambling and begging their insurance companies for it in an area that, before this month, nobody had and nobody wanted.

On the radio this morning they said the going rate here for earthquake insurance is $30 per $100,000 you wish to insure. In the fine print however is a little thing thing known as a $10k deductible. I'm thinking you would really, really have to sustain some serious earthquake damage for that insurance to ever pay off.

Instead of a walk-in pantry in our new kitchen there's a giant set of shelves ... like a cupboard that's 7' tall. It's in the corner, and attached to two walls. All the way around the thing now is a fine crack in the sheet rock. If you're looking for it you can easily spot it. It definitely wasn't there when we bought the place last month. It looks like the "big quake" shifted it just enough to put pressure on the wall. It's nothing a coat of paint won't hide, but it makes you wonder what else shifted ...

$30 a month? Or $30 a year?

$30/year per/$100k, which seems incredibly cheap, right? For us it would be right around $100/year ... but there's still that "gotcha" of a $10k deductible. My car insurance has a $500 deductible and it needs several repairs and I won't make a claim because I don't want to pay the $500, so $10k seems pretty unlikely.

I have lived in Oklahoma for essentially my entire life and have never felt an earthquake before last month, so I'm thinking earthquake insurance might be a little premature. If we keep getting them, then yeah, I'll look into it for sure.

Two year bump for new evidence (and a largely unsourced news article) pointing to fracking being the cause of this earthquake - http://www.nature.com/news/energy-produ ... es-1.13372

Yeah, that too has been on the local news here.

I don't know enough about the topic to argue intelligently about it one way or the other, but if we can get the price of a gallon of gas back down to $2/gallon by causing earthquakes and destroying Oklahoma in the process, I guess I'm in.