Great googly moogly

[thorne_scratch]

Holy shit, we just had an earthquake and my desk fell apart

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[raisedbymoogles]

I only knew what it was because I'd been through a few before, back when my dad was stationed in Japan. My housemate was convinced it was coming from inside the house. I was like, "if this house is on a Hellmouth, that should've been on my lease."

[thorne_scratch]

I missed the one we had last July because I was in Las Vegas; I've felt a couple when I was in San Francisco, but this was the first strong one I remember in a while. Bizarre!

[raisedbymoogles]

I didn't think the East Cost got earthquakes! I thought the worst we had to worry about was the occasional hurricane. And, y'know, traffic.

[thorne_scratch]

And building our capital city on top of a freaking swamp, so our summers are dripping with humidity. Yeesh.

[aphelion_orion]

): Hope it wasn't a bad one.

[thorne_scratch]

We're fine, just surprised. This is kind of unusual for our area.

[aphelion_orion]

*hug* I'm glad you're okay.

Don't blame you. OTL The Washington area isn't exactly the kind of place you expect this to happen. I wonder if the 2012 folks will use this, though.

[thorne_scratch]

*hug* No worries. Yeah, we're all right now, just kinda, "Stupid Mayans! They're off by a couple months!"

[m_steelgrave]

The science museum registered it on their equipment down here, two minutes after it happened. I thought someone just put a quarter in my hotel bed, but then I realized I was napping on the couch.

Cell service is spotty because everyone's calling ALL OF THE THINGS, and at the same time. My Facebook has exploded with posts of three stripes. Either a) "Was that an earthquake???!!!??" b) "HOLY &^%$#&$% THERE WAS AN EARTHQUAKE" or c) "WHY THE HELL WON'T MY CELL PHONE WORK"

[thorne_scratch]

We thought it was either construction or the office below activating some machinery. We were probably a few seconds away from pounding on the floor with a broom and yelling "Keep it down in there!"

It added piquancy to an otherwise uneventful day, that's for sure.

[flidgetjerome]

I thought someone just put a quarter in my hotel bed, but then I realized I was napping on the couch.

I have done that a lot, I always seem to be in bed during earthquakes so my response is always a half-asleep "mmmm, vibrate-y!".

Though there was this one time when I was a kid when I managed to use the vibrations to ride an arm-chair across the room.

[thorne_scratch]

I always seem to be in bed during earthquakes

My mind had so many "earth moving" + "bed" responses that my brain locked up and froze, and I am left muttering incoherently.

[alhazred]

I slept through it. >_>

My landlady was on the toilet when it happened, though, which, much like the doorway scramble, went about how you might expect.

[thorne_scratch]

I learned I'm apparently not immoral enough to push a pregnant woman out of a doorframe. I don't know if I should be relieved or disappointed with myself.

[squeemu]

Just wait for the zombie apocalypse. That's the real test.

[thorne_scratch]

I kind of expect I'll be a zombie in the first wave, since we all know I can't go for more than five minutes before resorting to cannibalism. I've made peace with this.

[sakuranochi]

Now that I know that both you and a friend who works at C-SPAN are okay, everyone I know is fine. Woohoo!

[thorne_scratch]

Man, riots one week and earthquakes the next. The disasters just go back and forth on either side of the pond, eh?

[sakuranochi]

The earthquakes are natural disasters though, whereas we all know Flidge is to blame for the riots.