Earthquake in Virginia!

[Perrella]

Checking in from WV, Eastern Panhandle and it rocked us here too. I was working in my home office, I have a bay window with 3 large sections of glass which started to rattle, then my steelcase slide cabinet doors started vibrating and whoa...felt like the floor was swaying. I jumped up to get to Zhoie, rounded the corner and she was trying to come out of the sunroom towards me and she looked dazed, I said wait...and bless her heart she lowered to the floor with eyes like this . Then it was over, I ran to her and she was a little trembly.

It was a scare for sure, but then I got a rush to think...wow, I've now experienced an earthquake in my lifetime.

So glad to hear everyone is ok!

[yorkieusa]

Originally Posted by Maximo

I'm sure my California friends will appreciate this:

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Hilarious!

[Lovetodream88]

Me, my grandma, and Callie where in the car about 5 minutes from home on our way to the vet for Callies appointment and we were stopped at a red light and all of a sudden it was shaking like crazy and I never thought earthquake I was going omg the car is going to explode something is wrong with it and we pulled over when it stopped and checked the car out and tried calling my dad but after about 10 minutes my bf texted me we just had an earth quake and it started making sense but weird. I have never been in one before I was soooo dizzy and Callie was shaking in her carseat. My dad was in a tower crane in DC so we were VERY happy when he was able to text us that he was down from the crane and safe. When we got home there was a bunch of stuff that fell off my grandpas desk and a few things around the house that were on the floor and the things on the shelves in my room had all shifted. Glad it seems like everyone is ok.

[Maximo]

Originally Posted by Lovetodream88

Me, my grandma, and Callie where in the car about 5 minutes from home on our way to the vet for Callies appointment and we were stopped at a red light and all of a sudden it was shaking like crazy and I never thought earthquake I was going omg the car is going to explode something is wrong with it and we pulled over when it stopped and checked the car out and tried calling my dad but after about 10 minutes my bf texted me we just had an earth quake and it started making sense but weird. I have never been in one before I was soooo dizzy and Callie was shaking in her carseat. My dad was in a tower crane in DC so we were VERY happy when he was able to text us that he was down from the crane and safe. When we got home there was a bunch of stuff that fell off my grandpas desk and a few things around the house that were on the floor and the things on the shelves in my room had all shifted. Glad it seems like everyone is ok.

I'm glad your dad is okay! That would have been really scary. The video of the White House showed 2 men working in a bucket lift on the front portico. I bet they were terrified.

[Maximo]

Originally Posted by Perrella

Checking in from WV, Eastern Panhandle and it rocked us here too. I was working in my home office, I have a bay window with 3 large sections of glass which started to rattle, then my steelcase slide cabinet doors started vibrating and whoa...felt like the floor was swaying. I jumped up to get to Zhoie, rounded the corner and she was trying to come out of the sunroom towards me and she looked dazed, I said wait...and bless her heart she lowered to the floor with eyes like this . Then it was over, I ran to her and she was a little trembly.

It was a scare for sure, but then I got a rush to think...wow, I've now experienced an earthquake in my lifetime.

So glad to hear everyone is ok!

How sweet, poor baby!

[yorkietalkjilly]

Originally Posted by Lovetodream88

Me, my grandma, and Callie where in the car about 5 minutes from home on our way to the vet for Callies appointment and we were stopped at a red light and all of a sudden it was shaking like crazy and I never thought earthquake I was going omg the car is going to explode something is wrong with it and we pulled over when it stopped and checked the car out and tried calling my dad but after about 10 minutes my bf texted me we just had an earth quake and it started making sense but weird. I have never been in one before I was soooo dizzy and Callie was shaking in her carseat. My dad was in a tower crane in DC so we were VERY happy when he was able to text us that he was down from the crane and safe. When we got home there was a bunch of stuff that fell off my grandpas desk and a few things around the house that were on the floor and the things on the shelves in my room had all shifted. Glad it seems like everyone is ok.

Thank goodness your dad got down okay. That had to be very scary for even the most macho man!!!

[Sunny95]

I am in Wilmington, NC and my office felt it today. My chair was bobbling and I thought someone was behind my shaking it. I was looking behind me and noone was there. Then the guy in the office beside mine said "Are we having an earthquake or something?" I was glad it wasn't just me. I'm 41 years old and never expierenced an earthquake before - just lots of hurricanes here on the coast. Glad there were no major injuries!

[Roxiesmama]

I think I have "tremor envy", as they've been calling it on the news. I don't have a story because I didn't feel anything!

I am pretty certain that Roxie felt something, though. I got home about 15 minutes after it happened and Roxie was very clingy. Then she had a couple of freak out/barking fits, and I thought maybe she was feeling some small aftershocks that the rest of us couldn't feel.

[peachbongi]

Just seeing this after watching the late night news and wanted to post...Yes we felt it here all the way down in GA!
Nothing major just a little rumble, or was that Tink's belly growling? I didn't feel it but there were reports on the news of several people feeling it.

[Britster]

Originally Posted by Roxiesmama

I think I have "tremor envy", as they've been calling it on the news. I don't have a story because I didn't feel anything!

I am pretty certain that Roxie felt something, though. I got home about 15 minutes after it happened and Roxie was very clingy. Then she had a couple of freak out/barking fits, and I thought maybe she was feeling some small aftershocks that the rest of us couldn't feel.

Lol, I know, I almost wished I had experienced it more. In the car, it felt just like someone was pushing my car from behind or something. It was so odd. My mom said everyone ran out of her salon screaming and my step-dad was there and he was just laughing, LoL. I'm so jealous (since no one got hurt or anything damanged, of course) that I didn't get to experience the full-on earthquake. I probably would have never known what I felt in my car was an earthquake had nobody told me or it was on the news lol.

[Maximo]

I don't like living so close to this:



The North Anna nuclear plant sits along an earthquake fault, one of the objections raised when the facility was proposed in the early 1970s. The potential for earthquakes and North Anna were again in the news in March after the Fukushima Dai-ichi disaster in Japan.


Dominion Power has maintained that the plant is designed to withstand earthquakes up to magnitude 6.2.

[Lovetodream88]

Originally Posted by Maximo

I'm glad your dad is okay! That would have been really scary. The video of the White House showed 2 men working in a bucket lift on the front portico. I bet they were terrified.

Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly

Thank goodness your dad got down okay. That had to be very scary for even the most macho man!!!

My dad likes to scare us by being in a tower crane I think. In 2007 he had a stroke while up in the tower crane and they had to do a rescue and lower him down in a basket thing.

[Maximo]

Originally Posted by Britster

Lol, I know, I almost wished I had experienced it more. In the car, it felt just like someone was pushing my car from behind or something. It was so odd. My mom said everyone ran out of her salon screaming and my step-dad was there and he was just laughing, LoL. I'm so jealous (since no one got hurt or anything damanged, of course) that I didn't get to experience the full-on earthquake. I probably would have never known what I felt in my car was an earthquake had nobody told me or it was on the news lol.

LOL, I have to admit, I was panicked and yelling for my father, who was upstairs. He calmly yelled back, "it's an earthquake." The house was shaking so violently that he had a hard time getting down the stairs.

[Maximo]

Originally Posted by Lovetodream88

My dad likes to scare us by being in a tower crane I think. In 2007 he had a stroke while up in the tower crane and they had to do a rescue and lower him down in a basket thing.

Oh my! I'm glad he is doing well. He needs to retire and stay safely on the ground.

[Lovetodream88]

Originally Posted by Maximo

Oh my! I'm glad he is doing well. He needs to retire and stay safely on the ground.

Thats what we would like but he really likes his job because hes pretty good so people will actually call his boss and request him for jobs but boy is it nerve wrecking. Because he works in DC most of the time he has some interesting stores like one time working on something where the president was going he had to hold his hands up and they had a snipper set on him if he did anything. It doesn't help that my dad is spanish (he was my step dad and adopted me and im a paler then a pice of paper so some people look at my last name and then look at me and are shocked lol) and he gets looked at like her might could be a terrorist we dont ever go to the airport with him because they end up searching the car and him like crazy. i blabbering because I'm worried about Callies blood work it will be 3-5 days of my blabbering so I will apologize now lol