MAGNITUDE 5.9 - Mineral, VA (85mi south of us)
@ 1:51pm on August 23rd I was sitting on the couch watching the news about HURRICANE IRENE heading towards the east coast and everything started shaking! Some of the thoughts that came to mind were...bomb? terrorist attack? truck? end of the world? Basically everything except earthquake. But when it didn't stop, I thought to myself "crap, this is a freakin' earthquake!" Immediately, I called for the girls and we went outside. It seemed like it shook forever and the shaking was violent and LOUD. As it stopped, some of our neighbors came over and asked me if that was an earthquake. Apparently they'd never experienced one before because Virginia doesn't have earthquakes...anyway, they blamed it on us saying we brought it with us and I responded with "of course, we had to bring a little piece of home!" Ha.
When our nerves settled and we went inside we discovered that a lot of our pictures came off the walls, drawers rolled out of our dressers, books and pictures came off our shelves...
since we've been on the east coast:
-hottest Summer ever recorded
-largest earthquake VA has experienced since 1897
-hurricane Irene
...what's next???
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