Eartquake Hits DC

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 6:27 pm

KC Scott wrote:I'm sure Screwy is on the scene and ready to cover the carnage

That...or to help clean up.

Tom In VA · Post by **Tom In VA** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 6:29 pm

My first, and I've lived here all my life.

6 stories up and swaying.

Looked out the window at a parking garage that's about 7 stories and watching that sway and the lights. Freaky experience.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 6:42 pm

5.8?

Our scale starts at 6.0.

DELSDAD · Post by **DELSDAD** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 6:45 pm

That was incredible. The leftcoasters made fun of us last year. Maybe we'll drop into the ocean before them.

L45B · Post by **L45B** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 6:46 pm

Felt aftershocks here near NYC, floor was shaking at the office for about five seconds. Buildings here were not made for this kinda shit.

Tom In VA · Post by **Tom In VA** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 6:46 pm

Mikey wrote:5.8?

Our scale starts at 6.0.

It was my first, the earth moved.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 6:55 pm

Tom In VA wrote:
Mikey wrote:5.8?

Our scale starts at 6.0.

It was my first, the earth moved.

I'm sure you'll hold the memory in a special place in your heart, too.

Sirfindafold · Post by **Sirfindafold** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 7:00 pm

Another excuse for BHO on why the economy is fucked up.

jiminphilly · Post by **jiminphilly** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 7:18 pm

Fun while it lasted. Hoping for some after-shocks.

Smackie Chan · Post by **Smackie Chan** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 7:24 pm

I'm fine, so you can stop worrying.

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 7:26 pm

It's the Brown Dwarf...Elenin. Run for the caves. Mizzoura, here we come. Let's find terral.

Tom In VA · Post by **Tom In VA** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 7:28 pm

http://jmckinley.posterous.com/dc-earth ... evastation

Site showing some of the carnage and damage in the area.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 7:30 pm

Smackie Chan wrote:I'm fine, so you can stop worrying.

shucks, I was going to call dibs on your record player.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 7:37 pm

ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2 · Tue Aug 23, 2011 7:50 pm

Why am I picturing the following scene from The Office:

Dwight -- 5.9 is nothing. Talk to me when we get a 9.0 and REALLY feel it.
Michaeal -- That's what she said!!!

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 7:54 pm

ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2 wrote:Why am I picturing the following scene from The Office:

Dwight -- 5.9 is nothing. Talk to me when we get a 9.0 and REALLY feel it.
Michaeal -- That's what she said!!!

I was thinking more along the lines of:

AnaNg -- ST, 5.9" is nothing. Talk to me when we you get 9" so I can REALLY feel it.
SaladTosser -- How's about I stick a pog up your ass? I'm sure you would feel that.

jtr · Post by **jtr** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 8:16 pm

Michelle Bachmann's tweet about the quake:
Earthquakes don't scare me. Jesus speaks to me through our planet.
Sometimes when I walk on the beach, I fantasize about tsunamis of blood.

Smackie Chan · Post by **Smackie Chan** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 8:24 pm

Tom In VA wrote:http://jmckinley.posterous.com/dc-earth ... evastation

Site showing some of the carnage and damage in the area.

RACK!!

jiminphilly · Post by **jiminphilly** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 8:39 pm

Screw_Michigan wrote:

So how crowded are the bars right now?

Atomic Punk · Post by **Atomic Punk** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 8:47 pm

Mikey wrote:5.8?

Our scale starts at 6.0.

Yeah, no kidding. Was in the Bay Area playing tennis when the bridge collapsed. We kept playing for another 45 minutes before checking for damage since it would already be done. Been through plenty of others including get knocked down by one when I was a kid. East Coast pussies are gripping.

Smackie Chan · Post by **Smackie Chan** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 8:51 pm

Tom In VA wrote:Site showing some of the carnage and damage in the area.

They just showed this pic on WUSA Channel 9 News Now.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 8:58 pm

jiminphilly wrote:
Screw_Michigan wrote:

So how crowded are the bars right now?

Neighborhood bars are probably busy. Downtown or employment center bars are likely not. MARC just cancelled their commuter lines, those guys are screwed. I don't know if VRE is working.

bradhusker · Post by **bradhusker** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 9:09 pm

Tom In VA wrote:http://jmckinley.posterous.com/dc-earth ... evastation

Site showing some of the carnage and damage in the area.

Dude, I have the same outdoor furniture, its extremely light, in fact, a good fart is enough to knock over the entire table and chairs.

Go Coogs' · Post by **Go Coogs'** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:06 pm

bradhusker wrote:
Tom In VA wrote:http://jmckinley.posterous.com/dc-earth ... evastation

Site showing some of the carnage and damage in the area.

Dude, I have the same outdoor furniture, its extremely light, in fact, a good fart is enough to knock over the entire table and chairs.

You are a fucking idiot.

Sorry, Mikey, this post belongs in the Canteloupe thread.

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 12:50 am

well, now i'm an official earfquake survivor. that was kinda neat. and no, it ain't much by left coast standards, but we don't build shit here to much of a quake resistant standard, so it was a bit spooky. having the whole fukking world shake, even a little bit is very weird.

hope we get some nice aftershocks.

Ana Ng · Post by **Ana Ng** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 5:42 am

Mikey wrote:5.8?

Our scale starts at 6.0.

Bwah! I know, right?

I just got out here (New Hampshire) 2 weeks ago, and I think I brought the quakes with me?

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 5:44 am

The geologists have determined that the quake was caused by the recently-discovered Bush's Fault.

bradhusker · Post by **bradhusker** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 11:48 am

smackaholic wrote:well, now i'm an official earfquake survivor. that was kinda neat. and no, it ain't much by left coast standards, but we don't build shit here to much of a quake resistant standard, so it was a bit spooky. having the whole fukking world shake, even a little bit is very weird.

hope we get some nice aftershocks.

I love when liberals talk about "earthquake resistant standards", sure, in a miniscule quake, modern resistant buildings will fare well, BUT, and what liberals dont understand, WHEN BIG ONES HIT, your buildings are GONE.

I love when they brag about the building standards in LA and san fran sicko, MEANWHILE, when the BIG ONE comes, its gonna be,................"Farewell and adu to you fair spanish ladies, Farewell and adu to you ladies of spain................

dumbfucks

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 12:58 pm

Dinsdale wrote:The geologists have determined that the quake was caused by the recently-discovered Bush's Fault.

DC must have inherited Bush's Fault.

Diego in Seattle · Post by **Diego in Seattle** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 1:18 am

bradhusker wrote:
smackaholic wrote:well, now i'm an official earfquake survivor. that was kinda neat. and no, it ain't much by left coast standards, but we don't build shit here to much of a quake resistant standard, so it was a bit spooky. having the whole fukking world shake, even a little bit is very weird.

hope we get some nice aftershocks.
I love when liberals talk about "earthquake resistant standards", sure, in a miniscule quake, modern resistant buildings will fare well, BUT, and what liberals dont understand, WHEN BIG ONES HIT, your buildings are GONE.

I love when they brag about the building standards in LA and san fran sicko, MEANWHILE, when the BIG ONE comes, its gonna be,................"Farewell and adu to you fair spanish ladies, Farewell and adu to you ladies of spain................

dumbfucks

Try again, shit-for-brains!

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 3:21 am

bradhusker is sounding more and more like a cuda troll.

Atomic Punk · Post by **Atomic Punk** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 3:41 am

Mikey wrote:bradhusker is sounding more and more like a cuda troll.

1st time Cuda has ever been really insulted... today.

bradhusker · Post by **bradhusker** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 7:23 pm

Diego in Seattle wrote:
bradhusker wrote:
smackaholic wrote:well, now i'm an official earfquake survivor. that was kinda neat. and no, it ain't much by left coast standards, but we don't build shit here to much of a quake resistant standard, so it was a bit spooky. having the whole fukking world shake, even a little bit is very weird.

hope we get some nice aftershocks.
I love when liberals talk about "earthquake resistant standards", sure, in a miniscule quake, modern resistant buildings will fare well, BUT, and what liberals dont understand, WHEN BIG ONES HIT, your buildings are GONE.

I love when they brag about the building standards in LA and san fran sicko, MEANWHILE, when the BIG ONE comes, its gonna be,................"Farewell and adu to you fair spanish ladies, Farewell and adu to you ladies of spain................

dumbfucks
Try again, shit-for-brains!

what? you think that when the "big one" hits san fran or LA, that the buildings and skyscrapers built to code are gonna stay up?

Is that what you think? cause if thats what you really think, then you must be an ignoranus, for sure.

Tom In VA · Post by **Tom In VA** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 7:30 pm

Another 4.5 this morning @0105.

Recovery process has been tedious. Toothpaste moved about .001 mm on the sink.

Supplies are running low, water is scarce, and mobs of displaced people are filling the street as hurricane Irene approaches.

I need some jungle karma clones.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 7:42 pm

Tom In VA wrote:Another 4.5 this morning @0105.

Recovery process has been tedious. Toothpaste moved about .001 mm on the sink.

Supplies are running low, water is scarce, and mobs of displaced people are filling the street as hurricane Irene approaches.

I need some jungle karma clones.

Stay inside!! Seek shelter from the hurricane!!

Get out of the buildings!! They're bound to fall in the next aftershock!!

Inside!! Outside!! Outside!! Inside!!

You all are well and truly fucked.

Maybe you should think about moving to California.

Tom In VA · Post by **Tom In VA** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 7:53 pm

If I did that, the "Wrath of Mom" for taking the grandkids away that far would make even the strongest quake and hurricane
look like a cakewalk.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 8:13 pm

bradhusker wrote:
what? you think that when the "big one" hits san fran or LA, that the buildings and skyscrapers built to code are gonna stay up?

Is that what you think? cause if thats what you really think, then you must be an ignoranus, for sure.

Hardly worth responding to this stupid dumbfuck, but I'll try.

Modern buildings don't generally fall over from earthquakes. You get hundreds of thousands of casualties from 6.5 magnitude quakes in countries like Iran and China because they have lots of buildings made from unreinforced contcrete and stone, which will just crumble in a quake. Sure there will be plenty of damage if and when the "big one" hits. Some buildings are bound to collapse, roads and bridges buckle, gas and water pipelines rupture, etc., etc. but the majority of buildings won't fall down.

There was a 9.0 quake off the coast of Japan earlier this year. Lots of damage, but I don't remember hearing about too many skyscrapers falling over. Most of the damage came from the tsunami. In the 1906 San Francisco earthquake the city was destroyed by the resulting fire.

Atomic Punk · Post by **Atomic Punk** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 9:38 pm

bhusker has to be a shit troll... a really bad SG's sister troll. I remember sitting in an office talking to one of my instructors @ USC when one hit and she said the high-rise building are on rollers then explained what that meant. Most other places are like what Mikey said.

Tom, you DO realize they measure quakes are on a logarithmic scale right? Anything in the 4.x category are aftershocks. I've never felt one under a 4.3 unless Rumps wife takes a jog.

Tom In VA · Post by **Tom In VA** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 11:26 pm

AP, yes the past few days have been educational. In truth, I didn't wake up at all last night during the aftershock, I was playing.

I work very close to Dulles Airport, so the other day when our building began to shake, I have to admit I was more concerned it was a plane crash or some explosion at the airport. That feeling the floor was shaking under my feet and might go crashing down - was a first for me.

I guess at that point you're at the quake's and building's mercy anyway.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Fri Aug 26, 2011 8:17 pm

New York could be a disaster.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/26/hu ... ?hpt=hp_t1