The world with its brilliant colors and shapes. Who would have known that the things we do to survive, would be our down fall. My name is Kay Louise Griffin, I live in Enid, Oklahoma. On day I lay in my bed and looked out the window for hours. As the day passes by I start to feel the calm coming over me. I closed my eyes and as I did I felt as if I was being sucked into a different place. It startled me at first but, as I opened my eyes realized I was not being sucked into a different place, but instead my whole room, house, world was shaking. I was on my bed, but was being shaken off onto the floor. As I slide to the corner of my bed I pier over, what I saw was nothing I had ever seen before. My bedroom floor was opening up. It was trying to devour me as I try to slumber peacefully in my bed. I jump from my bed screaming for my parents. They were out side in the yard. I ran to them as fast as my legs would carry me. My mother Susan was a reporter, she was on the phone with Austin Holland a research seismologist with Oklahoma Geological Surveys. She was trying to find out what was going on in the little town we called home. My dad Jim is a cop, and was walking up and down the side walk, talking with other people in the area, making sure everyone was OK.
I stood in the yard trying to calm myself so I could talk to both of my parents. When they approached me I started to cry again. I did manage to tell them that the floor was trying to eat me alive. We couldn’t stay at the house, so we packed up some things and went to a friend of my moms. His name was Kris, he was another reporter, so when mom and Kris started working on trying to find out what was going on, dad and I played games and just listened to what mom was talking about with Kris and she would tell us any hard facts she came across.
The next day we awoke to another shaking mess. This one was worse then the first one, the walls in the house were cracking from floor the ceiling, dust was coming out and filling up the room. There were loud bombs coming from outside, I held my mom and dad burrowing my face into them both. The quake lasted the longest five minutes of my life. After it was over, we went outside to find trees knocked over, buildings lay in crumbles, people bleeding, the sight was devastating. Susan my mother ran inside the house, we followed her. She turned on the tv to the news, grabbed her phone and made a call. A few hours later, her friend Austin Holland knocked on the door to Kris’s house. As soon as Austin come in the door he was busy at work setting up all kinds of computers and monitors. I had to go outside after a while, all the noises from the machines were very loud. They also made it very hard to sleep, but after a few days I got use to them.
Finally, after a week of waiting, and a earthquake everyday. Austin had found what he was looking for. He explained everything to us before he had to leave. He told us that he has done a little investigation on Oklahoma and its oil drilling habits. He had found that Oklahoma lies in the middle of the North American tectonic plate, as opposed to more quake-prone areas like Japan or California where plates rub together. But Oklahoma does have fault lines that run through the state. He said that he researched that on nytimes.com and he also found that there were 23 earthquakes recorded over the weekend the smallest and first was a 5.6. which was a record for the state. Austin showed us a map of all the oil drilling areas and compared them to maps of where all the earthquakes were. The maps were almost the same, the main places that people were drilling for oil was on the eastern side of Oklahoma and that is also where the earthquakes were hitting the hardest.
Austin was going to go back to the National Earthquake Information center, and tell them of his findings. My mother, being the reporter she is set down and wrote what Oklahoma called the best story ever wrote about natural disasters. And Austin Hollands was made captain of the National Earthquake field team. The reports are still coming in about what is happening in Oklahoma and all over the world. They are saying that if we keep drilling for oil and extracting oil and natural gas from the earth at the rate we are, that in less than 10 years we will have all of the earths natural resources which will result in the collapse of the world. An end to everything we have made for our selves, and the end to human kind.