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  • #31
    Originally posted by Kuciwalker View Post
    a;dsfkja;sljfadfj; we keep our liquor on the mantle over the fireplace... really want to go home and check that it's okay
    Hope it's one of these fake fireplaces with a telly looping some fireplace video - otherwise your liqour is tasting like crap.
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    • #32
      Originally posted by The Mad Monk View Post
      Apparently pipes broke in the Pentagon, and some bits broke off the National Cathedral. I expect more pipe breakage to be reported as the day goes on.
      National Cathedral, three out of four pinnacles broken off the central tower, and it appears to be leaning.

      Injury reports coming in regularly now.
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      • #33
        I was on a conference call at the time. We finished the conference call before evacuating.

        It's unknown why a 15-storey building of recent vintage has to be evacuated on a 5.8 earthquake. Seems rather pointless to me.
        I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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        • #34
          Apparently people here in Hartford felt it. I did not. Glad our polytubbies in the Sodom-on-the-Potomac area are ok.

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          • #35
            Originally posted by The Mad Monk View Post
            It appears to have been extraordinarily shallow.
            hmm...I figured it for a deep one given how far away it was felt

            Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post
            DC quake devastation

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            • #36
              Originally posted by Asher View Post
              Newbie mistake. Protect the liquor.

              I put my good china on the mantle, the liquor in a cupboard.
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              • #37
                Originally posted by DanS View Post
                I was on a conference call at the time. We finished the conference call before evacuating.

                It's unknown why a 15-storey building of recent vintage has to be evacuated on a 5.8 earthquake. Seems rather pointless to me.
                Probably to check for gas leaks.
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                • #38
                  Originally posted by Berzerker View Post
                  hmm...I figured it for a deep one given how far away it was felt
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                  • #39
                    Pathetic.
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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by Oerdin View Post
                      Probably to check for gas leaks.
                      OK. I guess that makes a little sense.
                      I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                      • #41
                        Don't you 'Merkins rialize this is the werk of terrerists!!! Obveeusly da werk of (checks to see whose oil we don't currently control) Venezuela!

                        Invaid dem today!!!

                        They ur da enemy!!! They tuk ur jobs!!!
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                        • #42
                          I was in a 5.something earthquake in California a few years back, and then the one that woke me up here in DC last year. This one seemed to go on a lot longer than the previous ones. My first reaction was "is something happening? what is that?" then "oh, cool, looks like its an earthquake" then "hmm, this thing keeps going, why hasn't it stopped yet? better get to the doorway".

                          Everyone headed outside. All the buildings emptied out, including the Washington Post building across the street. Didn't seem to be any point to it though, so my co-worker and I were the first ones back in the building. We tried to get some more work done but then an alarm when up and someone from the building said on the PA that the "DC Safety Council" said all buildings needed to be unoccupied. Ick. Seemed unnecessary to me, but whatever. I went home. Stupid trains were running at 15 mph too. It was a long, cramped ride home. *sigh*
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                          • #43
                            I felt nothing. Half of my co-workers felt nothing. The other half were all like WTF WAS THAT?!

                            Strange how only some people can feel the earth shake.
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                            • #44
                              BTW, our liquor was unharmed.
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                              • #45
                                If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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