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shadowkatWell that was fun. Not. We were just evacuated and stood staring at our building in fright for about an hour. It was the 5.8 earthquake in Virgina. [I'm in Jamaica, Queens New York (on Long Island)]. The LIRR evacuated its office buildings.
Our whole building shook, it felt very weird. Like being on one of those shaky rides.
We're shaken but okay. And now back to work.
Our whole building shook, it felt very weird. Like being on one of those shaky rides.
We're shaken but okay. And now back to work.
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Date: 2011-08-23 10:44 pm (UTC)OTOH, a very loose book could have tumbled from a high shelf and hit your head, so I'm glad you're okay. ; )
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Date: 2011-08-23 10:59 pm (UTC)We didn't know it was an earthquake - we thought it was a bomb - it felt like 9/11. I didn't find out it was an earthquake until I was outside the building, starring at it for twenty minutes.
On the other hand - the news has gone nuts. They literally have had five hours of news coverage on the earthquake - in which no one was hurt, and only one building came down. It just freaked folks out, because we aren't used to it and it is rare here. Be sort of like having a flash flood in Arizona.
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Date: 2011-08-23 11:02 pm (UTC)My mom called just to complain that the news was going overboard with it. But my flist seems a little rattled.
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Date: 2011-08-24 01:26 am (UTC)Like once in a 100 years event. Or once a decade. The east coast doesn't get earthquakes. Hurricanes, yes, Earthquakes, no.
Do you get hurricanes?
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Date: 2011-08-24 01:55 am (UTC)Hurricanes, not so much. Biggest weather problem here besides heat is flash floods.
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Date: 2011-08-24 02:07 am (UTC)Yeah, CNN does go overboard on stuff like this. They are killing time until Hurricane Irene hits...then we'll have nothing but that for five days. I swear there's far too much news on, they don't have anything to talk about - so when an earthquake or a tornado hits somewhere it normally doesn't - they act like it's the apocalypse.
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