Anyone Else Feel That Earthquake...? (Virginia)

Post » Wed Aug 24, 2011 6:53 am

We felt some rumbling in Akron. Nothing much though.


O_o I grew up in Akron. In Goodyear Heights. Represent!
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Post » Wed Aug 24, 2011 8:14 pm

O_o I grew up in Akron. In Goodyear Heights. Represent!


Never grew up there, just a student. Sorry.

On a semi-related note, I work right next to the Goodyear Polymer Building.
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Post » Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:31 pm

I'm willing to take that challenge; I live in Ohio and frequently find myself in Coal Country (essentially the southern half of Ohio, West Virginia, etc.) and there is a TON of old mining equipment at all the spent strip-mines; my grandpa even has a drag-line just sitting around rusting. We got it running in the winter so we didn't have to walk back up the hill after riding the sled down (I'm lazy and mechanically apt; breeds innovation). I always assumed that riding that old drag-line would be a lot like an earthquake on the San Andres fault.


Here's a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfDzc0I3F6U The guy's kind of a goofball but still :)
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Post » Wed Aug 24, 2011 7:27 pm

And if you shop in a Safeway right outside of Baltimore we may have met :D

But yeah, could feel it at work. I stood there (at a safe distance) and watched the shelves (the 7 foot tall ones) lining the aisles sway back and forth while listening to glass and other items hit the floor. Luckily no one was hurt. The only thing that had me a bit worried was that the roof had just been repaired after our last snow storm, so I was just hoping they did a good job.

Heh - I am more of a Wegman's kind of girl, since there is one not too far away.

Hey you! :wave: Glad to hear there wasn't any damage to those neat brick rowhouses in Baltimore. I like that funky old town. Did Scout come through it with minimal stress? ;) Last time we had a quake and a cat in the house she just sort of rolled over and kept sleeping.

I assume Scout was okay - she was hanging out by the front door as usual when I got home, she hadn't barfed up any food from stress. :lol: Some pictures and tchatchkes were knocked over, but that was about it.
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