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EARTHQUAKE JUST HIT DC AREA, MY HOUSE SHOOK LIKE xxx [Mag 5.9 in VA]
self ^ | 8/23/2011 | STOCKPIRATE

Posted on 08/23/2011 10:55:19 AM PDT by stockpirate

DAMN


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: North Carolina; US: Ohio; US: Pennsylvania; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; dcearthquake; earthquake; northannapowerplant; northannareactor; obamasfault; quake; virginiaearthquake
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To: reegs

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

Dear East Coasters,

When you get a couple feet of snow you call out the National Guard and call it a disaster. Us West Coasters routinely get as much as five feet of snow in a snowstorm and we don’t even close the roads. FYI, this last year we had 17.2 FEET of snow in the Sierra Mountains and we’ve had single storms that have dropped fourteen feet of snow and we call that a good reason to get out the snowboards.

http://thestormking.com/Weather/Sierra_Snowfall/sierra_snowfall.html


761 posted on 08/23/2011 12:26:08 PM PDT by MeganC (Are you better off than you were four years ago?)
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To: stockpirate
Wow its amazing how Shep Smith on Fox is all happy go lucky and telling everyone all is OK and its all much ado about nothing...

Sure is different from the Shep Smith who railed on and on how bad Katrina was and how things were falling apart and it was near Armageddon...

Makes me wonder how his demeanor would be if a Republican were in the White House...

Now he is saying he is done talking about the Earth Quake and will now only talk about the history making that is happening right now in Libya...

hahahah what a freaking Obama shill!

762 posted on 08/23/2011 12:26:19 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: StonyMan451

...Is it true the washington monument is leaning now?
Drudge is now reporting that it may be leaning....

Maybe old George is rolling over in his grave watching the Usurper in the WH destroy the US.


763 posted on 08/23/2011 12:26:34 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: DoughtyOne

In 1972, we had an earthquake centered in Sylmar, California. At the time I lived about 20 miles away in La Crescenta. The magnitude was 6.5.

It took place around 7:00am.


That was the first big earthquake I lived through. But I think it was at 6:01 am, and wasn’t it in 1971 ? not 72 ? It was centered in Sylmar, and destroyed the Olive View Hospital if I recall correctly. There were some deaths. We had a 2-story house, and you could really feel those aftershocks up there. I slept in my parent’s bedroom for a few weeks, I remember.


764 posted on 08/23/2011 12:26:34 PM PDT by Red Boots
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To: dfwgator

LOL Obama was golfing and possibly MO was dancing in the vineyard. I wonder if the reported monument lean is LEFT?


765 posted on 08/23/2011 12:27:23 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (It is possible to both promote Palin and support Bachmann at the same time, ya know.)
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To: JEH_Boston

Yes and no, Megyn Kelly reporting a “one line message” that the Washington Monument is tilting.

****

Somebody saw a cloud pass by the top of the monument and processed an optical illusion of the tower moving instead of the cloud.


766 posted on 08/23/2011 12:27:35 PM PDT by maica ( Multiculturalism is the smiley face of totalitarianism.)
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To: prisoner6

My daughter and I felt it here in Central NJ but other people in the house didn’t notice. We didn’t even know it was a quake - we’re used to rumblings from a quarry but this was silent and slower vibrations. Then we shrugged and said oh, well. Kids #3 and #4 are really ticked they didn’t notice. Not fair, we NEVER feel and earthquake!


767 posted on 08/23/2011 12:27:41 PM PDT by heartwood
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Hm. See how it looked like someone put a stick into a hornet’s nest, with all the people appearing immediately on the roof of the White House? I’ll bet there were folks up there with shoulder fired SAM missles looking around.


768 posted on 08/23/2011 12:27:41 PM PDT by rlmorel ("When marching down the same road, one doesn't need 'marching orders' to reach the same destination")
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To: stars & stripes forever

Best to stand under a doorway. They are reinforced. It’s what they teach us in California.


769 posted on 08/23/2011 12:27:45 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: advertising guy

AG...here you are with the laughs.


770 posted on 08/23/2011 12:27:45 PM PDT by Fishtalk (http://patfish.blogspot.com/201102/freerepublic-ping-list-compilation.html-Freep Ping Blog post)
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To: Eepsy

USGS estimate on this epicenter was 4.6 miles, not a half mile.

USGS Website— ANSS.


771 posted on 08/23/2011 12:27:59 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: jboot

I read article where AT&T rep said it was due to the volume of calls, no damaged to equipment.


772 posted on 08/23/2011 12:28:05 PM PDT by matt04
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To: stockpirate

VA just had an aftershock but we did not feel it over here by the Chesapeake Bay


773 posted on 08/23/2011 12:28:32 PM PDT by silverleaf (Common sense is not so common)
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To: rolling_stone

From CNN Website / http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/23/quake-hits-near-washington-d-c/

Updated 2:47 p.m. ET: A “considerable amount” of water from a water pipe has flooded two corridors of the Pentagon, according to an announcement in the building. People who work in those areas are being asked to stay in their offices while workers try to repair the damage.

The National Cathedral in Washington is damaged, CNN has confirmed.

And Dominion Generation, which operates the North Anna nuclear power station in central Virginia a few miles from the epicenter of the earthquake, is trying to reach operational staff at the plant, according to a company spokesman. Landlines to the plant appear to be down.

Shortly after the quake struck, traders in the New York Stock Exchange also felt the quake and shouted to each other, “Keep trading!” CNN’s business correspondent Alison Kosik reported from the floor at 2:20 p.m. E.T.


774 posted on 08/23/2011 12:28:35 PM PDT by FeliciaCat (I like my money where I can see it...hanging in my closet.)
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To: luckystarmom

Considering we live near 3 major faults ij the south bay and gosh knows how many other as yet discovered.. all one can do is be as prepared as one can,,

only a few things are certain in life.. besides taxes and the big leap

a big one hitting the West Coast someday is on the list.. hopefully we are on vacation or long gone when it hits..

I’ll take one over a tornado anyday


775 posted on 08/23/2011 12:28:35 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: jjsheridan5; jboot
As far as a 1000 year quake? DC would go back to being a swamp.

Sounds like a good thing.

776 posted on 08/23/2011 12:29:02 PM PDT by Ratman83
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To: LibertyRocks
I wish my fellow West Coast Freepers would stop being so smug about this.

WHEN the big one hits us we are going to need help from all over.

777 posted on 08/23/2011 12:29:07 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/01...NEVER FORGET.)
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To: reegs
Dear West Coasters: When you can get 1” snowfall and not have a 197 car pileup, then we can talk about overreacting to earthquakes.

We have Tule fog for that...

778 posted on 08/23/2011 12:29:30 PM PDT by null and void (Day 942 of America's holiday from reality...)
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To: NormsRevenge

Need to see damage assessment. I can see new government spending demands to repair damages. Never let a good crisis go to waste.


779 posted on 08/23/2011 12:29:34 PM PDT by untwist
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To: ottbmare

About the dogs — my son is in No Virginia and his 2 Burmese Mt. dogs didn’t react either. My son said that about five minutes before, he and his wife heard a loud tapping sound like someone hitting a pipe. He is about 80 to 100 miles away from Mineral.


780 posted on 08/23/2011 12:29:38 PM PDT by Exit148
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