shake rattle and roll

[regala_electra]

A bit on my office building:

It was formerly a factory building most likely, due to the area I'm located in (south of Midtown) and the district I work in, and therefore, it's definitely a prewar and solidly built. Sometimes when there's a nasty, windy storm a-brewing, we can feel the building move just a touch, the intentional sway that says, this is a well designed building. The floor shakes just a bit when the dancers on a floor two floors under us are in the middle of a pounding regime.

So. At first, I was like, fuckin' musical theater kids...but that usually lasts a couple of seconds and then I started getting unsettled and oh hey, that's an earthquake.

Right. That happened. Prefer a hurricane, to be honest.

FYI pretty sure I'd be fucked if we experienced an earthquake close to NYC since this was a Virginia born baby. Yikes.

Comments

[fourfreedoms.livejournal.com]

I am so AMUSED. I was outside at a cafe when it happened, and everybody was like OMG earthquake, and I didn't move.

My waitress: "Didn't you notice?"
Me: "Er, yes, why?"

[antheia.livejournal.com]

We just do not do these here, man. Neighbor and I were both standing there going, "Wait, is this an earthquake?"

[fourfreedoms.livejournal.com]

I don't think I realized how very alien they were to everybody until I saw so many people freaking out on twitter, while I watched, perplexed.

[antheia.livejournal.com]

Alien is exactly right - we seriously just do not have a box to put "ground shaking under our feet" in.

[regala-electra.livejournal.com]

Ha, I mean, I just sort of cruised through it and was just unsettled at how it felt afterwards since we just don't FEEL that, the ground ain't supposed to move.

[fourfreedoms.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it. We had a 4.0 nearby once when I was on the toilet.

I'm just so tickled by the fact that they started evacuating buildings up here. Oh you guys.

[antheia.livejournal.com]

Word wordy mcworderson. My reaction basically said "Right, so you're completely unprepared for that kind of disaster."

[regala-electra.livejournal.com]

It's good to know, I guess, at how fucked we'd be.

[antheia.livejournal.com]

No joke.

[netweight]

I didn't know you could have those there! By which I mean, I didn't know the US West Coast had seismic areas.

Unsettling is the word. It's possible that the first one a person experiences is the worst because you've never felt it before. When it happened here in 2009 I, well, I didn't totally freak out because it was really short but it's a seriously disturbing experience, which yeah, I'd rather not have repeated to test that theory of growing accustomed to it.

Glad you're alright.

[alleynyc.livejournal.com]

You may not say you prefer the Hurricane after this weekend. It looks like it *might* be pretty substantial. Getting all sorts of earth stuff this week, right?

We definitely felt it. Our building is old and it was very much felt. Never done that before. Wild.