SHAKE IT UP

We have had some unusual activity around here first it was a 4.7 magnitude earth quake, then a few hours later a 5.6 magnitude,and i have lost count of the 2 to 3+ magnitude quakes. so far I have only found one small crack in the sheet rock at an outside corner where the bead had moved a little won' fix it till I paint. The news said these after shocks can last for 5 days to 2 months.The epicenter for the large quack was 5.5 miles from my house.And we had a small fire going in the stove. No fires for a while,will be using propane until I get every thing checked out on the chimney,and let mother earth settle down.It will take a few days to check everything I can get to. If it was tornado's,hail,wild fires or zombie attacks I would be ok but this earth moving is un-nerving. You can hear the bigger ones coming, they sounded like a jumbo jet was coming right for the house,and a loud BOOM the every thing starts shaking,hanging light fixtures some bouncing,others were spinning in circles,wall hangings banging and slapping the wall,a few items fell over. The magor damage to us was just cleaning the s*** out of our pants.Others were not so lucky, brick chimneys falling through the roof,brick falling off the house,roads and Bridges damaged, a bunch of damage at large buildings,and a one of my sons place of employment a lot of products were damaged,as to be expected since he works in a glass plant, fortunatelly they were closed when it hit,or there could have been some bad injuries.

The chimney is class A but I will check it out to be safe, am finding some damage nothing major so far. We are still getting some after shocks. And in other news an area of the state south west of me got 9 inches of rain last night in the Arbuckle mountains , and this afternoon Multiple vortex tornadoes in the Witchata Mountains,Ahhhhh, another day survived, Tornadoes, snow storms,ice storms,fire storms earthquakes,hail storms. Well at least we have something to do around here...... repair and rebuild.. just got the new roof on the house in August from the hail storm, Don't ya' just love it......

Well I got in the attic and the chimney is fine, found 3 2x6s pulled about 1/2 inch away from the ridge,will be putting metal corner steel plates on them with hardened screws,after I make a plywood platform that I can screw to the ceiling joists,and make something to attach the ladder to the plywood,we have had a few more small shackings as well as two more 4.7 magnitude quakes. Also found one 2x8 rafter that is spliced and pulling apart at the splice and will put a temporary jack stud under it and put heave mending plates on it tonight again with hardened screws. Not real sure these problems were earthquake related or just time and drying out in the hot attic but they will be repaired. other than that the only damage is one sheet rock joint crack on the cathedral ceiling.