EARTHQUAKE JUST HIT DC AREA, MY HOUSE SHOOK LIKE xxx [Mag 5.9 in VA]

self ^ | 8/23/2011 | STOCKPIRATE

[stockpirate]

DAMN

[null and void]

[Squantos]

12 string ?

Leo Kottke ?

[Constitution Day]

I have friends in Cape Coral and they have told me how expensive insurance is. Crazy!

[null and void]

Apocalypses give Jeremiahs and Cassandras something to look forward to.

Is this a bad time to point out that Jeremiah and Cassandra were correct in their predictions?

[tophat9000]

Funny how the East Coast people are having puppies over this.

Bet they didn't even know proper Quake protocol and start a "what your guess on the Richter scale" pool

[Herbster]

“Dear West Coasters: When you can get 1” snowfall and not have a 197 car pileup, then we can talk about overreacting to earthquakes.”

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LOL. But we can’t drive in the snow either. :)

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Was in a garage, but with two story cinderblock walls. The top few feet of the walls were waving left to right and the rafters were shifting along. At first I thought a truck was going by till I saw the walls moving.

Then the real floor shimmer got myself and my friend finally moving out of the building and not just dazing in bewilderment at the moving walls. But while watching those walls for those few seconds, I could not help wondering if I did take that hit of acid that one night.

[Salamander]

I vote but this *is* Md so it’s really just going through the motions.

Dead Dems outnumber live Republicans 2 to 1.

[oh8eleven]

Always had to straighten the pix on the walls.
"This is a barracks, not a bordello!"

[null and void]

subduction leads to orogeny.

Nicely played, sir!

[SCalGal]

...I started to remember that I live on a swamp...

Liquifaction... not good.

[SCalGal]

...I started to remember that I live on a swamp...

Liquifaction... not good.

[relee]

No more news about the Culpeper bookstore but here's a look at some damaged cars in Tysons Corner

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AnNlyDcySY

[Stentor]

I thought the quake hit at 1:15PM ET

Thank you for sharing.

[Kirkwood]

Unless you are in a flood prone area or subject to storm surge, you are probably better off just hunkering down.

[nandrew]

We are fine. We were in a govt. building in D.C. They evacuated all of them. Cell phones were jammed. All the traffic lights were out. It took forever to get home. The weird thing was that the day was beautiful!! It mimicked 9/11. Clear ,cool and silvery. I thought it was a bomb going off somewhere in the metro area. Never thought it could be an earthquake!

[Squantos]

We got a report of one in VA an Colorado as well.....any news on the Colorado quake ?

Cancelled our travel to DC tomorrow...

Good.... Stay Safe.

[Darksheare]

How long until the “Comet Elenin is gonna kill us all” crowd gloms onto this and posts more bizarre nonsense?
Do we even have a betting pool set up on that?

[Murphy’s law of the thread or MLOTT: You mentioned it, within minutes there will be threads about it!]

[onemiddleamerican]

Earth is ringing...

[Fawn]

...Is it true the washington monument is leaning now? Drudge is now reporting that it may be leaning....
— If its tipping toward Mecca, we’re doomed! :-o

That's very good! LOL!

[combat_boots]

Frankly, I am surprised the spirits of our Forefathers aren’t hurling stones, granite and entire statues at both Congress and the WH. I am sure Reagan would be happy to land a few slabs in a few choice spots.