Here Today... Gone To Hell!

So...who else felt it?

I felt it up here in Northwestern Connecticut.

Pretty darn disconcerting!

I felt it in NJ.  My boss felt it in Boston.  Apparently it was felt all the way up to Toronto.

Yeah I felt it too.  5 seconds of horror.  I called home to make sure everyone was OK and my wife had no idea it even happened. 

I live in Virginia about 50 miles from the epicenter. Felt it pretty good here.

I assumed all my sinning had finally brought down the thunder and the Reaper was coming through my wall with his sickle. So I stayed pretty rational through it.  : ok: All jokes aside, glad to hear there's no one hurt or significant damage so far.

OH NOOOOO!!!!!

EARTHQUAKE!

I'm seeing some horrible images on the news, this one really upset me.

Don't click on it if you're squeamish or faint of heart.


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Oh the humanity, a 5.8 earthquake!

Haha....the east coast doesn't get much of these. Point taken though

I work outside of DC and felt it strong. I know its not like the ones in the west but its not like we are used to it.

I was talking to a guy who spends about 1/2 the year in California.

He said that was akin to your cell phone vibrating out there.  They wouldn't have even noticed it.

We wouldn't even get up off the couch.

I am currently in my ground bunker, left last night to see Tommy Stinson and will be hunkering down for the next couple days during the hurricane coming up the coast.

East coast: brace yourselves again!

You guys on the East coast are fucked!  Leave now.

LOL... that's the funniest shit i've read all week!

Super cereal, bruh.  It's like, pilferk even put the date in the thread title.  It's one of those "Never Forget" moments for them.

Man, I'll never forgot the day the water in my waterglass starting shaking.  I became a completely new person after going through that horror.

Irene says Good Mornin to New York.  Must be strange with the city shut down.  That alone would freak me.

80 mph average winds and weakening?

NY should be ok.

Doesn't look as bad as predicted with the wind but water can do a lot of damage.  The Weather Channel has their best guy sitting in NY, nice guy but if you see him run!  :D

Imagine the subways flooding, how long would that take to fix?  Love their governor of NY, sounds just like Rocky.  :D

Not bad unless your Ron.

It never looked that bad on weather related websites.

I hate the way politicians unnecessarily scare people for their own gain.

I don't know if you can blame the politicians or anybody for that matter.  There's a time where you look at it and have to make your decision.  Taking into account every bodies safety is the best way to go.  They were looking at millions of people.

I love how they said if you stay behind you're on your own.  We're not risking other people's lives because of your choice.  There's a time to be an individual and there's a time to be a part of the crowd.  AND THERE'S A TIME TO GET YOUR KID OUT, stupid fuckers.

Just to clarify:

I put the date in the title NOT because the event was monumental (it was weird....our ground don't shake)...but because I can see us having another one....say, next year....and didn't want the thread "resurrected" (as I so often see happen).

Zombie threads are bad....

Winds weren't TOO bad up here in NW CT.

However, there was a LOT of water in a very short period of time.  We saw something around 8 to 10 inches of rain in about 12 hours.  And it had been pretty "wet" around here lately, anyway, so the ground was already pretty soaked.

LOTS of flooding in CT.  Our backyard looked like a small lake was forming....we ended up running a sump pump to pump water away from our basement door all night.  Then we lost power around 8 AM and my wife and I spent about 3 hours outside bailing water (as in, with buckets) to do the same.

Not fun.  Not horribly awful, but not fun.

Sebastian Bach lost his house in NJ to flooding.  Some where out there a KISS pinball machine lost its life.

You say no, but your eyes say yes.

Lost a few shingles on the roof up here in Canada.

The flooding has caused more problems then they thought.  They have people they are airlifting food to.

Katia?  No going there right now.  :hihi:

It's amazing that the local takeaways in the US have helicopters as well as bikes  :hihi:

I had a 2 hour drive to work the other day from CT, through RI into MA and I saw LOTS of down trees and power lines.  Roads were closed.  It was a MESS!  There were no stop lights, makeshift stop signs.  No power for miles on end, generators running.  Trees were resting on power lines, crazy stuff.  I can't see how those people get power back anytime soon.