It shut down your federal government. I spent years in Bayarea, Loma Prieta survivor. The incompetence in DC is pretty disgusting, actually. People fleeing perfectly sound buildings to run out onto the streets, where all kinds of potential hazards could do them in. Talk about earth quake no no's. Had the Washington Monumnet toppled, it would have been the single greatest blow for freedom in our history with all the bureaucrats out on the mall.
This one was worth about 10 minutes conversation around the water cooler.
Wimp. Our office milked it for at least 20 minutes.