It's definitely been an odd year here in Virginia. Tornadoes in places that never have them, earth quakes. This hurricane could just be icing on the cake (granted we get hurricanes all the time). My brother is going to be weathering his first hurricane in the Richmond area.
Tornadoes hit on either side of where I live, both places are still devastated looking.
There were structural evaluations being performed on a local school after this earthquake. There are some issues with mines in the area going under schools...

Felt it here in Cambridge. It felt like sitting next to someone who has restless leg, but stronger. It woke my 20month old son from his nap....

Me, too.
I thought it was the Taco Bell.

OK, so we had tornadoes in April, my territory.
We've got a forest fire going on since about May,
plus the one in Great Dismal Swamp to the north (peat moss burns for months)
Today, an earthquake. Hurricane Irene is still far off.
If I start seeing locusts and frogs, I'm moving back to Wisconsin.

I kind of wish it had been at night, so I could be smoking a cigarette, acting smug, when my wife woke up....

as a life-long californian, i find the excitement over the east coast earthquake pretty funny. i guess it's like snow in LA

According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commision, The North Anna Plants went off line when they lost their connection to the grid. That's called a Load Rejection, when you suddenly have no place to send the electricity. The reactor shuts down within seconds, diesel generators come on to power backup cooling systems, and some steam may be released to relieve pressure until the cooling systems are up to speed. The same thing happened in Ohio in 1998 when a tornado wiped out the three power lines connecting Davis-Besse to the grid.

I didn't feel anything today, but I think I was driving at the time of the quake.

Ha, yes that is a good analogy. Remember when it snowed in Texas for the super bowl? I guess there were some streets closed because of it. Our local sports writer was in Texas and couldn't believe all of the hubbub about a little snow.

I did not feel the earthquake because I was sleeping. I know some relatives did feel it so I suppose NE Ohio can be included.

This happened in toronto earlier this year. i was sitting on my living room couch and oddly enough my first reaction wasn't to run outside, i just looking at the mirror because i heard it vibrating against the wall then i felt some shaking. I guess i woulda been a casualty if that quake was any stonger.

**Note to self: next time when house shakes and things rattle, then run outside...

I'll be darned... we just had a little 3.9 one roll through right now. Looks like it was pretty close to toytech's 'hood. Chris..... you didn't drop a UO-8 off your stand, did you? :)

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...22-38_eqs.html

I was at a dentist appointment standing outside when the whole building emptied, two ladies on a bench about 15 ' away from me were a little freaked out, when I ask whats going on they just looked at me like I was nuts I didn't feel anything.

No big deal for me but they evacuated by wife's building at NASA, everyone taking the stairwells and she's carrying the Windsor Pro she just got and had ridden to work (always keeps bikes in her office, her boss is cool about it). S***w the building but she was NOT leaving the bike behind!

as for snow it texas, yes it happens usually every other year or so.
The problem with the Superbowl was that since this is such an infrequent
occurrence there are no snowplows in the area. Mostly we get
ice storms, and truth be told I'd prefer snow anyday.
we used to get tremblors in Johannesburg, I was told it was old
mines collapsing, never been in anything over say 2.5 on the
richter scale.

Marty

Yeah, I know that was just the wrong weather at the wrong time. I just thought the few articles about the snow were a little condescending. I think Ohioans and other cold weather climates like to feel like we as somehow heartier people... it might not be true but it helps us through cold, sunless months. I can tell you, this summer the temps have been 85-95 which is very high for us... you should hear all the belly aching we are doing! I agree about the ice storms, we got a lot last winter and I probably wrecked my bike 6-7 times because of it.

The earthquake was felt in Detroit up in the skyscrapers, but not by me. I work on a floor below street level, so there would have been less movement to notice. I hope no one was hurt and damage was minimal.

Well stated. It takes no time to shut down a reactor, it takes a lot longer to cool down.

What I love about New England .. earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes, blizzards and big sharks. Thankfully, all in moderation.

Scott

Huh...... another little one just rolled through. This time 3.6, and again over by toytech's neck of the woods. Maybe he dropped a Schwinn.

???

5.9, ehhh, that is still in the fun range as long as you're not in an unreinforced masonry structure, as previously mentioned.

But to be fair, I probably would freak if a big hurricane or tornado was bearing down.

When I lived as a kid in Detroit in the 70's, we always had "minor quakes" when the salt mines below were blasting early in the morning.

Chombi

I may have felt it here - no wait - I think it was my wife's meatloaf. There it goes again.

Ha, I though this thread was about: "O cock, the box of stashed Huret Alvit's crashed on my hetchins/colnago/de rosandell and all 67 left a deep mark in the paint". Hope nobody got hurt there on the other side of the pond!

OK, Californians, you can act smug. I used to live there myself, but I'll say this: At least on the East coast we know how to drive when it rains. I swear, in CA there are 2 types of rain drivers. The first drive just as crazy fast as always, which is nuts. The second drive about 15mph on the freeway. It's bad when the first and second meet.

I'm not acting smug. You should not generalize like that or you become part of the problem.

It's not because they are "Californians", the drivers you describe are just bad drivers and there are examples of those in all 50 states I've lived in both ends of the country too and I know...... Uhmmm...Peace, man!

Chombi