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EARTHQUAKE JUST HIT DC AREA, MY HOUSE SHOOK LIKE xxx [Mag 5.9 in VA]
self ^ | 8/23/2011 | STOCKPIRATE

Posted on 08/23/2011 10:55:19 AM PDT by stockpirate

DAMN


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: North Carolina; US: Ohio; US: Pennsylvania; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; dcearthquake; earthquake; northannapowerplant; northannareactor; obamasfault; quake; virginiaearthquake
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To: TheConservativeParty

Yeah...but he was conveniently out of town.

Maybe the hurricane will get him up in MV.


901 posted on 08/23/2011 1:03:17 PM PDT by Palladin (Sarah: Are you gonna fish or cut bait?)
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To: Voter62vb

My son’s daycare lady said ALL her phone service was out - land and cell until I called 45 min later. Weird! I’m 10 min from her and my phone was fine! I called my parents within 5 min.


902 posted on 08/23/2011 1:03:19 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: relee

YIKES, not good, hope the injury is not too serious


903 posted on 08/23/2011 1:03:47 PM PDT by Enchante (9 year cancer survivor this month - last surgery Aug. 2002)
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To: pollywog
Is she a lib? Ask her if it was on Obama’s Fault.
904 posted on 08/23/2011 1:04:45 PM PDT by McGruff (a Sarah Palin supporter and proud of it.)
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To: TheConservativeParty

Just got home. We live about 10miles ground zero on this one. No structural damage, but quite a few things on the floor. broken flower pots, pictures on the floor, etc.. nothing serious. Praise God. Standing by for after shocks.


905 posted on 08/23/2011 1:05:28 PM PDT by DYngbld (I have read the back of the Book and we WIN!!!!)
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To: McGruff

It’s definitely the fault of the Tea Party, shaking things up too much for complacent bureaucrats to be happy....


906 posted on 08/23/2011 1:06:30 PM PDT by Enchante (9 year cancer survivor this month - last surgery Aug. 2002)
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To: manapua

: )


907 posted on 08/23/2011 1:06:43 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: DYngbld

Just felt an aftershock. little rumbling.


908 posted on 08/23/2011 1:07:54 PM PDT by DYngbld (I have read the back of the Book and we WIN!!!!)
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To: stockpirate
DC Earthquake Devastation

909 posted on 08/23/2011 1:09:08 PM PDT by TSgt (When in the Course of human events...)
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To: Red Boots
That was the first big earthquake I lived through. But I think it was at 6:01 am, and wasn’t it in 1971 ? not 72 ? It was centered in Sylmar, and destroyed the Olive View Hospital if I recall correctly. There were some deaths. We had a 2-story house, and you could really feel those aftershocks up there. I slept in my parent’s bedroom for a few weeks, I remember.

You're correct. It was in February 9, 1971 at about 6:01 a.m. I was 11 years old, and it was my first major quake. I lived in North Hollywood at the time, and they closed the local school for the week (it's was the Lincoln's birthday holiday anyway).

The brand new Olive View Hospital did what it was supposed to do (wings separated and gently dropped), but was completely destroyed as a result. Most of the 65 deaths occurred at the Veterans Administration Hospital in San Fernando, as the building was made of unreinforced masonry. Two freeway overpasses collapsed.

I remember that they evacuated just about everyone who lived between the Van Norman Dam to the north and the Sepulveda Dam Basin in the south. The Van Norman Dam had suffered significant damage.

I spent 4 weeks in the rebuilt Olive View Hospital this past January, and I sort of enjoyed freaking out the nursing staff with stories of how it collapsed 40 years before! Hey, I was bored.


910 posted on 08/23/2011 1:10:33 PM PDT by Maven
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To: Lazamataz

He’s sending you to move the damn carts so I can git out! ;)


911 posted on 08/23/2011 1:12:30 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: DYngbld
Just felt an aftershock. little rumbling.

Where?
912 posted on 08/23/2011 1:13:22 PM PDT by jjsheridan5
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To: Enchante

Water, gas and oil pipes don’t like the earth moving.


913 posted on 08/23/2011 1:13:53 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: All

WOW...felt from Toronto to Atlanta!!


914 posted on 08/23/2011 1:14:33 PM PDT by Fawn (No--bama 2012)
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To: TSgt

Yeah, I just drove home across DC to check on my reef aquarium; no problems. A door on the canopy was knocked open but none of the residents jumped out the tank.

First earthquake I ever felt, which is odd considering how much I’ve read about them.

I trust that in the last 900 posts the apocalptikooks haven’t been trying to exploit the quake through astounding scientific ignorance?


915 posted on 08/23/2011 1:14:50 PM PDT by Strategerist (There is only so much stupidity one man can prevent - Andrew Marshall)
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To: lwd
>>felt tremors in NC. NO BS<<

We did to just north of Aiken.

916 posted on 08/23/2011 1:14:51 PM PDT by CynicalBear
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To: relee

A bookstore collapsed in Culpeper and there was one injury.


Dang, knocked out the last customer standing! Now the economy is a gonner!


917 posted on 08/23/2011 1:15:51 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Palladin

But Obummer wanted to be gone.
It was all part of the plan....
and is also why he’s been spotted with his safety helmet on, looking like Urkel on his Pee Wee Herman bike.

(Adjusting Tinfoil Hat, and ducking to avoid thrown FReeper fruit)


918 posted on 08/23/2011 1:16:14 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty (PALIN 45 -The cure for "meet the new boss, same as the old boss." Resisting Tyranny Since 1-20-2009)
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To: Strategerist

“I trust that in the last 900 posts the apocalptikooks haven’t been trying to exploit the quake through astounding scientific ignorance.”

Wait for it. They’ll be all over it tomorrow.


919 posted on 08/23/2011 1:16:29 PM PDT by Palladin (Sarah: Are you gonna fish or cut bait?)
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