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Damnnitt! I slept thru it!
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LOL...How did I know that was going to happen John...LOL
It felt like a mini-hangover...the world was swaying and not matter what I grabbed to try and make it stop, it wouldn't.
They evacuated our building and we stayed in the parking lot for about 30 mins before letting us back in.
I was actually the 1st one out of the building...
Joking aside...whenever stuff like this happens, I have 911 flashbacks and the 1st thought in my head is run home...I was outta there!!!Last edited by WannabeMego; Aug 23, '11, 8:20 PM.Everyone is Entitled to MY Opinion...Your's, not so much!Comment
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Out here in central PA we felt it in the offices here on the 3rd floor of the hospital. Was a weird swaying feeling for about 10 seconds. At first I thought it was just me getting dizzy or something and then everyone commented on it.
I expected to come home and find action figures all over the floor, but nothing fell. Not even the JLUs, and they usually topple if you look at them too hard! Hope everyone else's collections went unscathed!Comment
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Holy crap guys glad you are all okay! I just read about when I started my computer. Be safe and be very aware.Comment
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I personally appreciate good wishes, but this was one of the biggest non-events ever. Here in NYC a torrential rainstorm we had a few weeks back caused more damage. Anyone affected by this who was not near the epicenter—which was in Virginia in a very unpopulated area—needs to get some therapy.Comment
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I understand that it must be strange & scary for the East Coast to experience a quake of this magnitude, especially post 9/11, and I can can completely empathize with individual reactions.
However, some of the hype & hysteria I see coming from the media & public officials would be borderline comical if it wasn't actually scaring people. It's almost as absurd as when L.A. gets a rainstorm projected to drop 1/4" of rain and the news crews switch to "STORM WATCH" mode.
Sleep soundly East Coast. The first aftershock is usually the worst, and I believe that one came in at 2.8? There is no threat of a Tsunami, the quake happened far enough inland and was not 7.5 or greater.
The good news is that it will probably be another century or so before the next one!Comment
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Ironically the only one who fell off the shelf was my T2 Spider-man. The other non-wall-crawling Megos stayed where they were.I expected to come home and find action figures all over the floor.... Hope everyone else's collections went unscathed!
^I know there have been a lot worse earthquakes in the world, but my concern would be the fact that most everything built on the east coast is not designed to stand up to a shaking earth. Cracks found on Wash MonumentIt's all good!Comment
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I barely felt it as I walking around but my co-workers who were at their desks definitely noticed. I called home dreading if any my stuff fell particularly my detolf full of Megos.
Luckily everything was fine!Comment
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Just got home a little while ago. I hope all the East Coast Megoheads are OK."Do you believe, you believe in magic?
'Cos I believe, I believe that I do,
Yes, I can see I believe that it's magic
If your mission is magic your love will shine true."
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I have shelves of books, toys, DVD's, collectable figures and not a single item fell down. I didn't even wake up. By comparison when the 2nd plane hit the 2nd Tower on 9/11 the building where I worked was hit by a shock wave from the explosion. The windows wobbled like jello and everything seemed to get blurry as we were shook.Comment
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5.9 is nothing to sneeze about...it's a pretty good earth-shaker.
I'd still get uneasy with a 5.9, but I've been through the Loma Prieta earthquake which was a 6.9...one of the Oakland double-decker freeways collapsed...and 50 people were crushed to death. One of the sections of the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge roads collapsed...it's a miracle only one person was killed.
To put it in perspective, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake was a 7.8, yikes.
I also was in an earthquake in Mexico back in the 70s, I don't know what magnitude that one was...but it was scary.
Also, I had visited Mexico City back in 1984...I was lucky...because one year later (1985)...that city got hit with a monstrous 8.0, holy smokes.
Yes...any earthquake is scary...I myself don't like them...lol.sigpicComment
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There was also an Earthquake today in New Mexico, Close to Colorado. It was a 5.3.Comment
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Earth is a living/breathing planet...its center is nothing but magma and fire......continents perpetually shift ever so slowly...earthquakes are nothing but Earth farts...
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