Earthquake!

More tectonic shenanigans at McKeldin Library. I'll probably be recruited to help clean up tomorrow  :P

"I wonder how many teabaggers have faulted the President for taking a vacation when an earthquake could hit D.C. at any moment."

13 Best Tweets About the East Coast Earthquake
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/08/23/top-tweets-about-the-east-coast-earthquake/#ixzz1VuTNgd9H

i live in mineral.  the epicenter was ~4 miles from here.
i've heard people comparing it to a train.  i live about .5 miles from train tracks and i knew someone that lived a few yards away from a different set.  there is not a comparison.  trains don't knock shit off of things that weigh 100+ pounds.  the whole house was shaking violently for a good 20+ seconds.  that 4.2 aftershock felt like nothing compared to the original.  my house is one of the least damaged on the street.  almost everyone else had their chimneys collapse.. ours (three) just got damaged.  not really sure of the total extent of the damage to the house.  thankfully not a lot was broken in the house.  main things we lost were a TV and one of the kitchen cabinets.

i'm not personally finding the jokes all that funny.  maybe it wasn't much where those people are, but it sure sucked pretty hard here.  people are terrible at being clever.

distance wrote:
i'm not personally finding the jokes all that funny.  maybe it wasn't much where those people are, but it sure sucked pretty hard here.  people are terrible at being clever.

people are also terrible at spotting cleverness when things get too personal.

distance wrote:
i live in mineral.  the epicenter was ~4 miles from here.
i've heard people comparing it to a train.   i live about .5 miles from train tracks and i knew someone that lived a few yards away from a different set.  there is not a comparison.  trains don't knock shit off of things that weigh 100+ pounds.  the whole house was shaking violently for a good 20+ seconds.   that 4.2 aftershock felt like nothing compared to the original.  my house is one of the least damaged on the street.  almost everyone else had their chimneys collapse.. ours (three) just got damaged.  not really sure of the total extent of the damage to the house.  thankfully not a lot was broken in the house.  main things we lost were a TV and one of the kitchen cabinets.

i'm not personally finding the jokes all that funny.  maybe it wasn't much where those people are, but it sure sucked pretty hard here.  people are terrible at being clever.

Wait just a second there, pal.  I want to clear something up….you have three chimney's?!

I was wondering what it was like at the epicenter.  5.9 is relatively small but could still be terrifying if you were right over it. 

By way the thing to do in an eq is to get under a desk or sturdy table, not rush out in the street. 

vansmack wrote:

distance wrote:
i live in mineral.  the epicenter was ~4 miles from here.
i've heard people comparing it to a train.   i live about .5 miles from train tracks and i knew someone that lived a few yards away from a different set.  there is not a comparison.  trains don't knock shit off of things that weigh 100+ pounds.  the whole house was shaking violently for a good 20+ seconds.   that 4.2 aftershock felt like nothing compared to the original.  my house is one of the least damaged on the street.  almost everyone else had their chimneys collapse.. ours (three) just got damaged.  not really sure of the total extent of the damage to the house.  thankfully not a lot was broken in the house.  main things we lost were a TV and one of the kitchen cabinets.

i'm not personally finding the jokes all that funny.  maybe it wasn't much where those people are, but it sure sucked pretty hard here.  people are terrible at being clever.

Wait just a second there, pal.  I want to clear something up….you have three chimney's?!

yes.  it's an older house.  at this point only one is actually functional (exhaust for the furnace).  it's the same for most of the houses around here.

Well, I want to apologize if I offended anyone, but I loved it  ;D

You sure this wasn't caused by a free-roaming, vaporous, full-torso apparition?

beetsnotbeats wrote:



More tectonic shenanigans at McKeldin Library. I'll probably be recruited to help clean up tomorrow  :P

That's exactly what I was thinking but distance's post really made me look at my life and question the true human value of making jokes in these trying times of books falling from shelves and 30 seconds of rumbling noises.

i can't wait until hurricane irene does millions of dollars in damage killing old ladies in their rest homes, flooding whole neighborhoods as new born babies drown in their own cribs.  i want death, i want families left stranded, broken up forever.  i want animals dying.  i want people running down the street with their skin on fire.  i want looting and killing over a fucking candy bar.  i want every blood soaked minute of it covered by the news with nsfw videos and pictures showing young children cut in half.  then lets make song lists about the disaster and have a laugh and yell at those people who "have thin skin."  yeah . . . that's what cool people do, they laugh in the face of disaster . . . as long as it isn't happening to them.

Hey, Walkie. You and the s/o care to stop over for a hurricane party?

i so heart relaxer (although he failed to note the devastation caused to lawn furniture).

in distance's defense, i admired his restraint.  it would have been easy to come out all guns a-blazin', "HOW DARE ANY OF YOU LAUGH AT THIS?!?", etc.  instead, he response was measured.  well done.  i suspect that i wouldn't have responded as generously.

walkonby wrote:
that's what cool people do, they laugh in the face of disaster . . . as long as it isn't happening to them.

that's what ALL humans do, you half-wit.  it's called a coping mechanism.  it's either that or pills.  personally, i'd rather laugh it off.

i wrote all of that just waiting for your response . . . and you let me down.  you of all people, know how to tell people off properly.  you call that a tell off?

@Walkie - To whom was that addressed?

who do you think

i'll give you a hint

;D

hahahah. too bad i think you got us confused. I am *definitely* not in any of those videos.

walkonby wrote:

xneverwherex wrote:
felt it in nyc. everyone has been freaking out on the 26th floor. unfortunately for me, i was in the elevator - but i honestly figured someone was huge in the elevator for it to shake this much. it sometimes shakes a bit, but this was pretty bad. thankfully it didnt get stuck.

other than that - got an extra hour out of lunch since everyone was freaking out. figured might as well stay outside for a bit more.

you need to stop shaking that mighty ass of yours so much to big freedia.

vansmack wrote:

distance wrote:
i live in mineral.  the epicenter was ~4 miles from here.
i've heard people comparing it to a train.   i live about .5 miles from train tracks and i knew someone that lived a few yards away from a different set.  there is not a comparison.  trains don't knock shit off of things that weigh 100+ pounds.  the whole house was shaking violently for a good 20+ seconds.   that 4.2 aftershock felt like nothing compared to the original.  my house is one of the least damaged on the street.  almost everyone else had their chimneys collapse.. ours (three) just got damaged.  not really sure of the total extent of the damage to the house.  thankfully not a lot was broken in the house.  main things we lost were a TV and one of the kitchen cabinets.

i'm not personally finding the jokes all that funny.  maybe it wasn't much where those people are, but it sure sucked pretty hard here.  people are terrible at being clever.

Wait just a second there, pal.  I want to clear something up….you have three chimney's?!

He does now!!!