So, did the Earth move for you, too?
NYC – The song says “If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere”. Well, let me tell you, it’s true. I’ve lived here my whole life and have seen and experienced a lot just by being a New Yorker….or should I say “New Yawker”, as it is pronounced in our local native tongue. The day to day life here is very different than it is in most places. The hustle, the bustle, and the sights you see sometimes can cause even the most bubbly and perky person (Yeck!) to become a bit jaded. I mean you can a see a sight like this one on the subway and have most people not even blink about it.
I am sure most of you have heard by now of the 5.8 earthquake that hit Virginia today and rocked a good portion of the east coast in the process. Well it sure rocked here, too! I was in one of my local stores picking up some groceries this afternoon. I hadn’t any need for anything dairy so I guess I missed out on my chance for an easy MILK SHAKE! Bwahahahahaha!!!! (Sorry for the corn there. Would you like some butter for it? Oops, sorry, forgot. No dairy 😉 Anyway…… I was in the checkout line paying for my items when I suddenly felt dizzy. I put it to the fact that it was wayyyy past my lunchtime and I had not bothered to eat yet but then suddenly …I think Carole King can say it best..….
My first thought was “Wow, this place has some really crappy floors here. I feel like I am going to fall right through it.” However, as I turned my head I noticed the water in the bottled water display shaking and swaying as well so I knew something was going on beyond just some crappy flooring problem. Yup, I was experiencing my very own little mini earthquake (well, tremor, really) and still didn’t even know it at the time. When I found out a few moments later what had happened, my very own little jaded New Yawker thought was “Glad the big one didn’t hit while I was in there. I sure didn’t want to die in a crappy place like that.” I then went on with my day….slightly shaken….but having just added yet one more experience to my always expanding book of adventures in a day in my life in the Big Apple!
Nope, didn’t feel it here.
It been too long since I felt the earth move.
We felt a small aftershock in SC. Well I didn’t. Apparently I was in my own little world at work and didn’t even notice. But my co-workers freaked like the whole place was about to come down. Anyway…I’m so glad to hear it was just a tremble there and you’re ok. Stay safe this weekend. It looks like that nasty stuff is still coming your way.
The earth hasn’t move for me in a very long time. LOL
expect the worst,hope for the best
I’m sort of getting a kick out of this.. Hehehehe
“Seeing all the People on the east coast freakin out!”
-over a lil shaker…
(I’m from Southern California) 😉
It has just been confirmed that the DC earthquake occurred on a rare and obscure fault-line known as “Bush’s Fault”. Obama also announced that the Secret Service and Maxine Waters continues an investigation of the quake’s suspicious ties to the Tea Party.
The only earth tremors we ever experienced on a regular basis was when the Nevada Test Site was still throwing their blast parties. 😀
I’ve never felt an earthquake, don’t really want to either. I live in Missouri and we have the New Madrid fault line, but I’ve never felt it up here by Kansas City. I imagine it would be rather scary for your first time though. I was reading earlier that Arkansas has had around 500 small quakes just since September of last year. That seems like an awful lot. Glad you’re ok and no physical damage was done to you!!!
The Earth mighta moved, but gravitational force overrode the sensation, just like it does the centrifugal force which might otherwise be successful in launching me off of this rock…. If it could do so at 17,ooo mph, I mean.
I too lived in California for a while and got to experience earthquakes first hand. They are definitely frightening. Worked in a Mall and was leaving well after it closed. Saw a slab/brick hallway ‘RIPPLE” like a wave moving forward or a shaken carpet….
Since the North and South Poles, plus the Greenland Ice Sheet, and every mountain glacier on the planet are all melting, that water has to go somewhere. Since the Earth spins like a top, that water is moving towards the middle. That’s a lot of water, and it’s heavy. This is a massive redistribution of weight on the Earth, and the only way it can adjust for it, is to have EARTHQUAKES.
I was in an earthquake in Japan when I was about 4 years old, don’t really remember it though. Just what mom and dad talked about.
I’ve been in several earth movers, both in Denver and in Seattle. It’s a very strange sensation.
One day one of my kids received an earthquake warning out of a leading newspaper such as the Enquirer. They insisted it was going to occur that day at such and such time. It was a false report, of course, and nothing happened, but to oblige my silly kid, who was off to work, I laid all my lamps on their sides and scattered some trinkets and stuff around on the floor from off the furniture. Then I left.
They came home, looked around in puzzlement and queried me about the bizarre situation. I simply told them the earthquake they had predicted, had occurred.
They were furious. I never did get that, it was so funny to me, but they never cooled off about it. I guess I’m not extremely sensitive to other people’s deep feelings about certain issues. 😛
Must have been real scary MM
All the time I lived back east I never felt an earthquake — not until moving to Southern California. Amazing indeed. Awesome blog!