Posted on 07/16/2010 6:03:47 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
3 miles? Too deep for a Tripod.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTITnLR8QWI
Probably just reach for the meds.
(I've seen snow here a couple of tmes, hail more often - remember building a snow gnome when I was five but there wasn't enough to do the cap.)
I live in Montgomery County and I think it was sooo cool. Why? I never experienced one before and now I have. You can read about what it is like (the sound, the feel) but I guess it is something you have to experience. My husband was standing out on the lawn right before it happened. He said that the deer he was watching looked suddenly spooked and all of the birds got quiet. Then he felt a vibration moving his way and everything shook. I woke up and assumed it was the fighter jets that scramble when someone invades the D.C. air space or “what the heck just blew up and is there a mushroom cloud?” (a thought usually assumed by the people living close to D.C.) The kids slept through it which proves the point that they could sleep through an earthquake. No damage, no injuries so this is pretty neat to me. (not neat enough to want it to happen again but neat).
We felt it in Olney. You just missed it although we have a Rockville mailing address. Our kids didn’t wake up. I did and the dogs didn’t seem too thrilled with the idea but we all got back to sleep.
You're kidding, right? We Angelenos cancel everything if it even rains! Snow would bring total chaos and panic. (But get everyone not used to it off the freeways... Hey, that would be a good thing...)
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I get that. My first earthquake, at elementary school age, was kind of “fun.” But once you are older and have kids, you get pretty scared when one hits, wondering if this is the One. No one is ready to have their home destroyed or lives lost. Or even to live without power for days. Or defend things from looters. Etc. At least hurricanes can be planned for a little.
Honestly, other than being started awake by the "boom", I'm simply relieved it was "just" an earthquake. We live kind of near a few "high-value targets", if you know what I mean.
I agree with that. Remove the senate and house from DC never allow these people to congregate in one place.
Why can’t they stay home and work from networking. Have their staffs with them for research etc. but never step foot in DC.
Think of the savings, less lobbying, perversion, collusion and on.
More townhall meetings and contact with the home folks.
I first proposed having the Congress & Senate telecommute most of the year about 15 years ago to an OK Pol.
The constituition “requires the Congress meets once per year” and specifies the date (now changed). There is nothing to legally prohibit this being done. But Pols of either party will never “volunteer” to do it. They will have to be forced.
The Legislature in Texas meets once every 2 years, unless the governor calls a special session. It has worked for many years.
It is TIME to DownSize DC!
We’re just off the Pike near where Old Georgetown Rd comes in...
Yes, you are really a target area. EQs are always unsettling, truly. You expect the earth to be solid, and then — where to run where it is solid? And upstairs, the windows and doors rattle more, it shakes more. I hate earthquakes and I don’t care how small they are. Hope it settles down for you.
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