so, as i'm sure you all know, there was an earthquake on the east coast yesterday. it was a 5.8, which is strong enough to warrant concern but not strong enough to warrant panic. it's the second earthquake that DC has gotten in the last year or so, and i think i need to retune my earthquake radar because it's also the second earthquake that i HAVEN'T FELT. for the first one, granger woke me up really early one morning and told me that he thought we'd just had an earthquake. i told him that it was just a dream, that DC didn't get earthquakes. because, obviously, we just don't. well, i woke up that morning to learn that granger hadn't actually been dreaming. and yesterday? yesterday i was walking from safeway back to my office when the earthquake struck, and i didn't feel anything. like, nothing. i got back to my office and everyone was outside going "did you FEEL that???" - "uhhh, feel what?" i felt like the uncool kid in class, everyone was talking about something that i had been left out of. i was secretly hoping for an aftershock to hit*** so that i could be cool again, but alas, no such luck.
so yeah, i still can't cross "earthquake" off my list of things i want to experience. even though i technically have, it would feel like cheating.
also, here's a picture of the post-earthquake devastation.
***not really, especially after being informed that there were nuclear reactors near the epicenter.
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