Geological madness

Early this morning, an earthquake registering 5.2 on the Richter scale struck the Midwest. The quake was centered in West Salem, Ill., 200 miles south of Chicago. There was a little bit of damage from the temblor in southern Illinois. In Chicago, buildings swayed and people woke to the rumbling of the earth. The New Madrid Fault, named after a town in southeastern Missouri, is a seismic zone that extends into the Wabash River valley.

Elsewhere in this increasingly wild metropolis, reports surfaced of another cougar. Naturally, there were going to be copycat sightings, pun not intended, of a million cougars after the one found on the North Side. Every tomcat in Alsip is going to be identified as a puma. I stand by my theory that this was the same cougar that was seen on the North Shore a few days ago.

Also, tonight, there are two crows roosting in the maples in front of our building.