I had just walked into a bank. Where I work, when the AC shuts off, the building shudders. It felt like that at first, then it got stronger and kept going for 10 seconds or so. It was actually rather funny.
Ok, some chimneys are knocked down, a few windows are broken along the coast, and the Washington Monument and National Cathedral have some damage. But this is cosmetic. This was a joke. Literally. The above picture has been used with that caption, or simply "WE WILL REBUILD!"
I've also seen jokes like "Sorry about the quake. I guess I shouldn't have had the bean burrito." Or "MSNBC reports that the Washington Monument is leaning to the left. Fox News reports it is leaning to the right." Or "That wasn't an earthquake. That was the founding fathers rolling over in their graves."
Japan, Haiti, those are other stories. We just felt a disturbance in the Force, if you will forgive a movie pun. My guess is that the approaching Hurricane set to pass over the same area will be much worse than this little tremor we had yesterday.
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