Blaze Staffers Give First-Hand Accounts of the East Coast Earthquake
- Posted on August 23, 2011 at 3:43pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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A woman in Midtown Manhattan watches news coverage of the East Coast earthquake. (Photo: Zaheer Cassim)
Editor’s note: The following is a collection of first-hand accounts from Blaze staffers describing how they experienced the 5.8 magnitude East Coast earthquake.
Liz Klimas:
At approximately 1:50 p.m. the town house I just moved into over the weekend in Arlington, VA, began to shake. I thought it was a large construction truck at first or just something weird about the new house. Then, it didn’t stop. Looking out the window from the desk where I work from home, I saw the cars parked out from swaying from side-to-side. Then my instincts from when I was 5-years-old growing up in Los Angeles, CA, kicked in. I stood in the door jam, said a little prayer and tried to think of just what I would do next 1) if the shaking didn’t stop within a reasonable amount of time or 2) damage was done.
Within 10 seconds after the quaking, friends in the area who were on g-chat started pinging asking if we all felt it. One working in a coffee shop in Alexandria, VA, said she got under the table and that no one else in the shop did. One, in Reston, VA, even farther from D.C. and therefore closer to the epicenter of the quake quickly chatted “owowowowowow earthquake g2g”. Another who worked for the Express, a tabloid-style magazine produced by the Washington Post and give at metro stations and other locations, when she came back 10 minutes later said they evacuated and initially thought a bomb went off.
It didn’t take long before I heard sirens running to whatever emergency or scare that was caused because of the quake. But still, within just three minutes I saw cars moving on the road again and friends g-chatted that they were shakily getting back to work or being told to go home. Luckily, I hadn’t hung anything on my walls yet from the move.
Zaheer Cassim:
I could feel the tremble in the bathroom as I was washing my hands. I initially thought the bathroom was shaking and that I should get out of it before it fell down a floor.
Chris Santarelli:
In The Blaze midtown office we all felt a tremor. The office lights were swaying back and forth. Only a few blocks from Grand Central, Empire State and Chrysler buildings. We ran to our windows possibly fearing the worst considering all those landmarks. But they looked fine from our view. Went straight to Twitter, incredible to see the tweets come in confirming the earthquake. Can hear sirens from the street below as we speak. A few moments of fear and uncertainty, followed by awe of the effect of social media connecting people across the eastern seaboard.
Becket Adams:
I was working out of my apartment in Arlington, VA. on a Blaze article when everything started to shake. Funny enough, I thought the washing machine was going crazy in the next room. It suddenly became apparent that it wasn’t and that this was an honest-to-God earthquake.
It seemed that as soon as it started, it was over (but not without knocking some of my books off the shelf).
I wonder if the fact that I was working on a George Soros article has anything to do with it.
Buck Sexton:
I was putting the finishing touches on a post when I stood up and it felt like the walls around me were moving. For a second I thought it was too much coffee, but I threw on sneakers and hurried into the hallway. A neighbor said it must be nearby construction, but I knew that wasn’t it. A quick internet search told the tale- Aftershocks from VA quake hit NYC.
Chris Field:
I was walking from my office to my kitchen when the house started shaking a little in our home in Northern Virginia. (We’re about 25 miles south of DC and 85 miles north of Richmond.)
When it first hit, I thought there was construction going on outside, but there was no one out there. Then it really began to pick up strength. I went and stood in the kitchen doorway (like a good West Coaster is taught to do) and just waited it out.
Our infant son slept right through it. And our dog did NOT appreciate it. In fact, I think she sensed it coming — she’d been acting a little weird before it happened.
We have a brick home, but thankfully there appears to be no damage and everyone in my family and in our neighborhood is fine.
Madeleine Morgenstern:
Glover Park, Northwest Washington, D.C.:
I’d just gotten back to my second floor apartment when I felt rumbling a little before 2 p.m. I’m from Los Angeles and assumed it was a heavy truck driving by, but when it didn’t stop I knew it was an earthquake. I grabbed my computer and stood under the doorjamb until it stopped, pulling up Twitter to confirm what it was and who was talking about it.
The shaking seemed to last between 20 and 30 seconds and got more intense the longer it went. Nothing fell, no damage and no alarms went off in the building, but it sent neighbors out into the hall asking if everyone had felt it. I tried calling my boyfriend and got through on the third try. His building in Foggy Bottom near the State Department had been evacuated. After I got off the phone with him, cell service cut out and I couldn’t send or receive calls for the next half hour.
I have friends working all around D.C., including the Capitol and the Washington Post, and they were posting on Twitter about evacuating.
Billy Hallowell:
This afternoon, I was with my family enjoying our vacation in Wildwood, New Jersey. I was laying down on the sand staring at the ocean and reading Dr. Carol Swain’s new book, “Be the People” (an excellent read if you haven’t yet had the chance to check it out). A little before 2 p.m., I started to feel a little woozy. I sat down in a beach chair and realized that the earth was moving. My family and I essentially noticed the quake simultaneously; others on the beach began getting a bit nervous. But, the movement was over almost as quickly and abruptly as it had started.
Being that I’m obsessed with technology, I was able to use by Nook Color to search for news stories about what had happened (my cell phone didn’t have a signal). Reading the accounts on Twitter and The Blaze, I quickly learned more about the details. My family and I came back to the house to call family in Washington, D.C. and New York. It’s been a adventurous vacation, to say the least.
Dave Urbanski:
Afternoon in central New Jersey. Blue sky. A few puffy white clouds. No heat or humidity (finally). And then the shaking starts. There were two distinct tremors. The first felt like the brief rumble of a monster truck careening closer and closer before moving on down the road and out of earshot; the second, almost right on the heels of the first, lasted longer and felt like being perched atop a washing machine in spin cycle.
That second jolt got me up and checking for possible damage or carnage. Fortunately there was neither. Nothing even fell or broke. Just a little rumble near the urban jungle. The sky stayed blue and the clouds didn’t go anywhere, either—but Facebook lit up like Christmas tree, folks all up and down the eastern seaboard fascinated.
Having lived in southern California for nearly a decade, this felt like a pretty minor quake…but for the lifers on this side of the country—with little to no quake quotient to draw from—-it was more akin to a “sensurround” movie theater with Charlton Heston saving an entire city (remember Earthquake?). Hopefully we’ll be spared aftershocks.
Mike Opelka:
Our home is nestled in the middle of an arboretum on the northern edge of Wilmington, DE. As I was grazing between the cable channels, watching coverage of the Libyan Looting Festival on the Gadhafi Compound, my wife screamed from the other room, “What is happening?” China rattled in the hutch to my right, and a thunderous sound seemed to be coming from the basement.
“Get out of the house, our boiler’s going to explode!” she said. I explained to my panicked bride that we don’t have boiler, but exiting the house was a wise idea. So the three of us… (the dog goes everywhere we do) walked out of our back door and into an eerie silence… just like they always show in movies when something bad has happened.
The typical symphony of birds and crickets that is the soundtrack of our property was totally muted. “EARTHQUAKE!” I muttered
Within a few seconds, the shaking had stopped and about ten minutes later the sounds of mother nature came back… All seemed to be fine, except on cable TV, where every single channel had forgotten about Libya and was now in full Quake coverage.
I wonder how quickly the graphics departments will have the new titles ready?
Meredith Jessup: (via cell phone)
Talking with ppl on the street who are worried about going back inside bc of threat of aftershocks. Everyone is in a bit of shock here in DC bc earthquakes never happen here. Heard someone reading a news report on their phone that said last quake like this in the area was back in the 1800s. Ppl also very reluctant to go home, worried about getting caught in the metro. Sadly, living in DC and this close to the anniversary if 9/11, the first thing that jumped to everyone’s mind was that the tremors might be some kind of terrorist attack.
Eddie Scarry:
I was in my office, which is about a 20min walk from the Capitol. I had just finished up chatting with an intern when the entire office (located on the 6th floor) began shaking as if it were on stilts! The intern and I looked at each other confused, then stepped out into the hallway to see what everyone else was doing.
The office receptionist was entering back into the office and was saying, “Wow, that was an earthquake!” So everyone evacuated and waited outside for about 30min before reentering. The worst part is that people who commute to DC by train are pretty much stranded because they’ve shut them down!
Jon Seidl:
I was sitting at my home office desk working on a story about Libya, when I started feeling my chair sway. I looked around and heard rumbling. It felt like I was on a the first part of a roller coaster: that part where you‘re climbing up and it’s kind of jerky. I looked at my TV and it was swaying back and forth.
At that point, my dog jumped out of his blanket and started barking at the noise. I went to grab my camera, but before I could get the video to load, it was over.
That’s when I heard people screaming in the halls. I grabbed my dog and headed out. When I got to the lobby, a young girl asked if I felt that — it became the common question as everyone filed in. At one point, a middle-aged Hispanic woman came running down the steps, crying and holding her head in disbelief trying to assure the person she was talking on the phone that it was alright.
When I realized what had happened, I ran back upstairs and started writing. I tried to call Editor-in-Chief Scott Baker, but the phone lines were jammed and not working.
Luckily, the internet did.
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Comments (99)
SilentReader
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 5:39pmGlenn Beck comes back from a man-made disaster at the the Restoring Courage Rally where the Hamas terrorists are showering rockets over Israel after tomorrow’s Temple Mount event to a natural disaster in New York where an earthquake has now struck the East Coast and Washington D.C.
It’s really hard to keep up with all the calamities going on in the world.
In a completely unrelated story that was never reported by the government MSM. On June 8, 2011, Mustafa Ceric, the head of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovinaa in Bosnia called on the Mujahideen to kill Serbs and Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I wonder if the agenda-driven media will ever report on that. I rather doubt it. It wouldn’t fit their dhimmi agenda of apologizing and appeasing the Islamist aggressors who seek to wipe out all Christians, Jews, Hindus, Egyptian Copts, or anyone else who won’t kneel down on their bloodied mats of slavery and paying the jizya (Muslim tax).
Report Post »GoGamecocks
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 5:32pmThis is unrelated to the earthquake- but is related to blaze staffers:
What happened to the website!? I have an ipad (but not liberal, by any means)
Report Post »When I click on “desktop version” it just reroutes me to the same difficult page.
I like my headlines!
one years food ration like glenn says
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 8:02amBecket Adams:I was working out of my MOTHER’S BASEMENT in my boxers Arlington, VA. on a Blaze article when everything started to shake. Funny enough, I thought the washing machine was going crazy in the next room. It suddenly became apparent that it wasn’t and that this was an honest-to-God earthquake.
Report Post »It seemed that as soon as it started, it was over (but not without knocking some of my moms books and pictures off the shelf).I wonder if the fact that I was working on a George Soros article has anything to do with it.
TeaPartyPatriot
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 5:30pmThe quake was strong enough to wake-up nearly HALF of the thousands of federal government bureauweenies sleeping through a normal day at “work”. Also, there are reports that the internet porn being watched by the other bureauweenies was temporarily disrupted – causing great anguish amongst these “public servants” and provoking strong protests to their union reps about these “intolerable” conditions.
Report Post »I support God's Israel!
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 6:18pmHa ha ha ha ha……..very good!
Report Post »PA PATRIOT
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 6:25pmOh, TPP, (Terrorist)
Report Post »They are just passing time, waiting for retirement on the public dole.
Without any doubt, there will be another EARTHQUAKE on November 6, 2012.
WTP are going to rock their world…
Helllllooooooooooooo
PA PATRIOT
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 6:26pmOpps
I forgot to sign my post
Repsectfully
Report Post »“The Terrorist”
BibleGunClinger
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 9:19pmAlways hilarious to watch the media freak out when something happens in their immediate area! If this happened out here in Minnesota, we would have made the scroll news on the bottom of the screen for a couple hours. And you know what? We like it that way in “flyover” country!!
Report Post »snoops49
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 9:59pmOh, so very true, TeaPartyPatriot! More of our tax dollars being racked up while these cowards stand around talking about the rumble from below….and wish that they could get back to their games and internet porn!
Report Post »bigbear_awake
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 5:05pmwhite house better watch because God is for sure Test Him i dare you
Report Post »corbecket
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 6:23pm@encinom
” ……it is quite clear that God is attempting to shake some sense into the tea-bagging party.”
Or it could just be an earthquake, most folks don’t speak for God, or at least the smart ones don’t.
On a side note, we Coloradans had a fair sized earthquake down by Trinidad this morning. It was nearly the same size as the one on the East Coast, but most folks don’t get bent out of shape about such things out here.
What was funny is that one of the 911 centers had a call from someone (no doubt a progressive Democrat), who was very concerned about whether there were any tsunami warnings from the quake.
Can one do anything but shake your head about about such foolishness?
Report Post »encinom
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 6:40pm@corbecket
Report Post »Given how many “Christians” on the Blaze believe that this is a message from up on high, I just attempting to file in the context.
MHP
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 8:01pmencinom,
As usual an idiot. did you not know earthquakes are on the rise in all 50 states the last 50 years.
Report Post »As for healthcare, you can go to any county hospital emergency room, so no need for OBAMACARE,which we in this state do not have, and I’m having surgery shortly, and it ain’t gonna cost me anything.
So enci, you lose again.
corbecket
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 9:00pm@encinom
“I just attempting to file in the context”
Are you being honest, or just silly? You do seem to be trying very hard though, whatever you’re up to. :-)
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 10:04am@MHP
Report Post »Typical welfare mindset, it doesn‘t cost ME anything so it’s FREE. Wrong, who do you think pays for all those people showing up in emergency care? Who do you think pays for your “free” medical care? Answer – EVERYBODY, YOU IDIOT.
mule creek ridge
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 5:03pmFirst thing I saw on this quake was a Huff post. It said 5.8 quake hits New York. Epicenter was VA.
Report Post »Typical of the Huff PO that thinks the earth revolves around it.
ENDtheFED2012
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 5:27pmThis video just came out. The Tea Party is exposed and the truth is out.
Report Post »I‘m a member of the Tea Party and even I can’t deny it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bNiDx7qTjA
teddrunk
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:58pmImagine an America where both coasts split off and sink into the oceans. It could cure a lot.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 6:08pmYOu mean a religious extremist nation like Afghanistan?
Report Post »MHP
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 8:03pmenci
Report Post »MHP
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 8:07pmenci
Afghanistan’s coasts have not fallen off into the ocean.
BTW them earthquakes for all 50 states range over last 10 years.
Looks like this one suffered some major damage in the Wash DC areas.
Report Post »Cathederal damaged, and the monument leaning over.
cloudsofwar
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:40pmGood thing Glenn isn’t here, he would still be crying.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 5:10pmI thought he was and slipped on the lard butt.
Report Post »circleDwagons
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 5:53pmglenn is not here but hannity is. he such a big whining wimp
Report Post »freeus
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:33pmLife goes on.
Report Post »paulusmaximus
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:31pmOK, Barney enough is enough!
Report Post »CommonSenseis Missing
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:28pmNote to Blaze staff: Who cares?
Report Post »Waterlyly
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:38pmNote to commonsenseis missing: Many of us find it interesting. If you don’t care, move on, don’t feel compelled to comment.
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:51pmCommon
That is such a callous thing to say. I do care. Move on. Maybe Move on.org.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 5:11pmNote to Blaze staff, God was attemtping to shake some sense into you, if you still believe and trust Becky, I guess you didn’t get the message.
Report Post »TX_45_ACP
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 5:31pmNote to encinom, God was trying to shake that dingleberry out of your rear.
Report Post »junior1971
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 5:58pmI did’nt realize encinomonkey was a Bob Beckel fan. Lackofcommonsense ####off!
Report Post »PA PATRIOT
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:26pmCabellas is having an awesome sale this weekend on hardware.
Report Post »Docrow
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:21pmOfficial Obama press release: Bush’s fault
Report Post »SingerGuy
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:23pmI heard that the fault line was previously unnamed, so President Obama, by Executive Order, has renamed it “Bush’s Fault.”
Report Post »louise
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 5:21pmSingerguy, now that was funny! rofl
Report Post »red1
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 6:39pmhaha you guys come up with some funny comments sometimes
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:20pmMy first encounter with a quake was in 8/1982 at Cubi Point Phillipines. I went to the door jam as well.
Note: Rescue teams have found more people dead through standing in the door jam which will collapse and kill you like a guillitine. They found people crushed under sofas, tables and such. Never crawl under anything but lay down in the open space next to an object such as a sofa so that when total collpase comes, there will be a space to live in until rescue.
Report Post »louise
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 5:30pmChiefgeorge, good information to know. Never knew about the door jam thing nor though about laying down next to a higher object like you said.
Report Post »Thanks!
sle
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:03pmwonder if the good Lord is getting ready to REALLY shake up wash dc and all the criminals that reside there, who are the process of ruining this great nation!!
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:00pmYou’ll never guess what i was doing in bed about 37 miles from the epicenter, but it enhanced everything. I found out later the earth had really moved.
Sadly, once you go Quake, you can never go back. My SO is destined to be a mover and a shaker.
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:04pmMy guess is it involved 3 billy goats.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:07pmDon’t any of you have jobs?
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:08pm@model
Report Post »yes, and I need to get back to it.
loriann12
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:24pm@MODEL82A1
Maybe that is her job…..
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:29pmLORAINN, touché. well played.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:46pmGood One! LoriAnne 1-2 I really was touched by you!
Thanks for your cervice!
TEA
Report Post »junior1971
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 6:00pmEncinomonkey, you must be my neighbor. Perhaps well meet one day.
Report Post »moreteaplease
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 3:57pmI have never felt the ground move like that before here in Va. Beach…pretty weird. Felt like I was standing on Jello. At first I thought I was having a dizzy spell but when I saw the door to my office swaying back and forth then I realized what was going on.
Report Post »hersey10
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:04pmI can’t be the only 1 who think Buck Sexton is a porn name .
Report Post »MrButcher
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 6:26pmsame here, Moretea
I’m in Charlottesville and I thought the water pipes in my basement were exploding at first. Then I realized it was an earthquake. Yelled for the wife and kids to get out of the house and ran room to room looking for them.
It was actually quite thrilling….
I wanna ride it again.
Report Post »fastfacts
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 3:56pmAccording to http://www.americanparchment.com Obama was just about to start a round on the golf course. Nuclear power plants, Pentagon, Airports, etc have all been evacuated. You would think these people had never been in California before. These small ones happen a few times a year.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:28pmI had 5 weeks training in Ferndale, CA back in the 80′s. There was a guy stationed there permanently and he had a pocket watch hanging from the ceiling by his rack. I asked what it was for. He said if he wakes up and the room is shaking, he looks at the pocket watch, if it’s moving, it’s an earthquake. If it wasn’t moving, he was still drunk from the night before.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:52pmSweet – LoryAnne 12!
Sounds like a real clock stuffer action story. So, so nice that he was sharing that intimate view of his rack with you.
The socialist naval service lifestyle is a real eye opener when young shipmates are first exposed to each other. That’s for sure.
Thanks for your serves.
TEA
Report Post »TX_45_ACP
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 5:25pm@MONICNE
More brilliant posts from the larger-than-life MONICNE. Your posts may be pointless, but at least you give the Blaze lots of hits and accounts. So, I guess they can thank you for that. ;)
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 5:42pmWe are first & foremost a capitalist website that serves to please. Two Big Likes!
TEA
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 3:56pmThe fun was watching the panic on the faces of my co-workers here in the Peoples Republic of Jersey who have never experienced one before.
Report Post »Texas Hills Patriot
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 3:55pmI was watching the Mariners-Indians game, and they said they wondered what the slight shaking they felt in Cleveland was. Apparently they felt it that far away.
Report Post »paulusmaximus
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:29pmYes, mirrors moving and such ever so slight.
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 3:53pmI hope a 9.0 opens up a huge hole in Martha’s Vineyard and sucks the entire region into the depths of the earth. Now that would be interesting.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 3:59pmI wonder if anyone will be sending aid…all my beer has been shaken and could go thermal any minute
Report Post »saranda
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:02pmIs martha’s vineyard in a red state? With the Texas drought, Dakotas floods and now Virginia earthquake it seems God is only po’d at red states.
Report Post »homeschooler
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 6:07pmMe too!
Report Post »Liberty2011
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 3:52pmGlad to hear everyone is ok. Felt it here in NJ…..interesting way to break up the work day!
Report Post »staggerlee32
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 3:51pmI wonder if they turned on HAARP?
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 3:59pmI thought HAARP only affected the atmosphere, specifically, the ionosphere.
Report Post »staggerlee32
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:05pmThey can use it in many ways. Do you know the technology they use to detect oil under ground?
Report Post »If used on a massive scale it can generate an earthquake. Supposedly HAARP ca do that too.
injunjoe
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 3:49pmgo live in CA for a year or so, you’ll feel some pretty good ones…
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 3:47pmLike I said, I was taking a leak at the urinal and was swaying from side to side…I thought I was having a severe dizzy spell. It was weird and I feel for those that were stuck in high rises and in the city. It was WEIRD… my son thought it was pretty cool though.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 3:55pmTo quote Elvis whole lotta shakin going on.
Report Post »I wonder if the good people of Haiti will be sending us disaster aid…..LOL
I wonder if anyone will be sending aid…all my beer has been shaken and could go thermal any minute.
cessna152
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:04pmI think my remote fell on the floor during this whole ordeal… Oh the horror! Can someone spare some valuable time and help me pick it up?
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 3:47pmIn all honesty, for those of us who didn’t feel the tremor (and, therefore feel like we’re somehow part of something important), this story has gotten old and boring already. Now, if it’s followed by a 8.5 or 9 Ripper, that will keep our attention.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 3:54pmWhen is the last time you heard of a 5.9 Quake in DC? Philly? Baltimore? Just sayin’….
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 3:58pmThere are minor earthquakes all over the world all the time. Just because you felt this one doesn’t make it important. Just sayin’.
Report Post »Restored One
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:07pmI agree, if there are no injuries and major damage, move on, there are more important things going on in the world. Dont be sucked into that “A good crisis cannot go to waste.”
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:07pm…and there is snow throughout the world, but when it happens in the DC area, it’s big time news. Just sayin’….
I guess this will be the “crisis” this administration “needs”. Earth Quakes will require a new tax and permit to live in this “earth quake prone ” area.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:26pmCessna, don’t quite your day job to chase your dream of becoming a geologist or seismologist just yet. Comparing snowfall probability to earthquake probability is laughable.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:30pmDon’t “quit” your day job, either.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 4:33pmGood thing I read your comment as I was on my way to the bosses office to quit… Thanks for your wisdom.
Report Post »junior1971
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 6:26pmModel, when you see earthquake in the title, don’t read it, dumb a##!
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