Is the Sky Falling?

Last night, something scary happened while we were sleeping. It made me think of Chicken Little who thought the sky was falling.

We were asleep and had been for a couple hours when all of a sudden I heard a huge crash/glass shattering noise and felt the giant German shepherd jump on the bed and sit on me. As you can imagine, confusion ensued. I turned on the light and looked over at our bedroom door. It has a full-length mirror on the back and if the dogs run into it, it rattles. If they hit it hard enough, it sounds like something is breaking, like glass shattering. I get mad at them for doing this all the time. So I assumed the dog had come running through the door and slammed into it causing the noise. Nope, the door looked fine. Then, I looked over at the windows and thought, did someone just break into my house? Windows were not broken and dogs were not barking. Instead, Clover was still kind of sitting on me and was obviously scared herself. Then, I looked up. Where our 60" ceiling fan had been, there was now nothing. The ceiling fan had fallen from the ceiling and crashed to the floor at the foot of the bed. Thinking back about this, I realize I should have been terrified because what if it had landed on my face? Really, though, I was just like, "Whaaaaa?Ummm. Really? Is the sky falling?" Then, it made sense why the dog who'd been sleeping near the foot of the bed was so scared. She was almost flattened by a ceiling fan.

Will installed all of our ceiling fans four years ago when we moved in, but I don't think it's any fault of his because he's super handy and careful about things. That fan in particular probably runs the most of any, but still, it shouldn't fall from the ceiling. It's the largest one too I guess, but again, it shouldn't crash to the floor. Today, one of Will's tasks is to check ALL of the ceiling fans in the house so that this doesn't happen in the living room or den and break the coffee tables or land on a sleeping guest who is visiting. My advice today: check your ceiling fans!