10 years ago....we felt the Earth shake under our feet...
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frequentflier
happy to be living
I was working at my (then) Callaway store. A former poster on here and I shared the experience together. The ground shook in and the shelves holding pet foods swayed and when we went outside the light poles looked like rubber- bending and swaying. Unreal! Dr. Adam from All Kinds ran outside and said "holy $hit, I think we had an earthquake!"
Not a typical day, for sure!
Not a typical day, for sure!
Grumpy
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I had left work early and was home on my pc in the basement, felt it and realized it was an earthquake. Yelled to my son upstairs and told him to get the hell out of the house. I went out the basement door and looked back at the house, saw it swaying slightly side to side. Friends of mine were going across the Solomons bridge, both of them not thrilled about the bridge to begin with, and said they thought they were going over the side.
sunshine98
Active Member
Was at work when everything started shaking and books were falling off shelves. Thought a plane had hit the building and had visions of the Twin Towers, so I beat feet down the stairs and outside. Later that evening, my cousin from California called and said "Awww - you had a little baby earthquake!"
NorthBeachPerso
Honorary SMIB
And yet people bitched up a storm because schools were closed for a couple days while the buildings were inspected for damage. A lot of which was found in those brick buildings. One of my building's wall along the main downstairs and upstairs hallway had a 2 inch crack in it. You could stand in the classrooms it traversed and see outside.
The entire chimney on a neigbor's house collapsed to the ground ..looked like someone set a bomb off under it. Ours was inspected but not rigorously enough to detect the vertical fracture in the masonry flue liner. ;-(
NextJen
Raisin cane
It was my scheduled day off from work and I was upstairs in my closet hanging up clothes. The washing machine is on the main level almost directly beneath my closet. At first I thought the washing machine tub was out of balance and making noise, but when the whole house started shaking I knew that it wasn't the washing machine! As I ran from my room I caught a glimpse out my front window and saw back and forth swaying of the window to the mailbox at the end of the driveway. I started yelling for my daughter who was in the basement to get outside. We met and ran out the front door where we saw my son and some neighbor boys had stopped playing basketball and were looking around bewildered.
I went back in the house to get the dog and get him outside to the back yard and it was crazy seeing the water sloshing around in the inground pool.
I went back in the house to get the dog and get him outside to the back yard and it was crazy seeing the water sloshing around in the inground pool.
Sounds like a Drive-In from the 80s.
Tech
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The first one I noticed was a mini van, I'm like what are those kids doing.
Natron0915
Active Member
I was working in my basement office on a conference call with folks from Norfolk, Philly, and Lakehurst. You could almost hear it moving up the coast by the reactions. The glasses in my bar were banging together and making a rather nice melody as they swayed. Having lived in Cali for 10 years it wasn't hard to figure out what was happening. Luckily no damage to the house.
mitzi
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As they used to do in snowstorms.
mitzi
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I was home on the computer doing an online class. No radio or tv on. Everything was so quiet. I thought I felt rumbling under my feet and what sounded like far off thunder. I shrugged it off. Then my desk started swaying along with the wall and the window. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. As soon as I got up to go outside, it stopped. Not knowing a thing about earthquakes, I remember the thought going thru my mind that it was an aftershock from a huge bomb.
I'd just returned to Bldg 405 on PAX and was loitering out front before I went inside. I remember the glass front door liked funny, almost rippling. I attributed it to my hangover. As I was pondering what might have caused it, the people in the front half of the building started evacuating through that door.