Did anyone feel that earthquake?

[The Legonater]

Didn't feel it here in Manitoba, but my laptop stopped registering the power cable for a few seconds around the time it hit- not sure if the two are related.

[JimBee]

Really? Well that proves one thing. When posting on EB you disregard the outside world.

Are you meaning to tell me that you felt it here? Everyone else I've talked to weren't even aware of it.

[KisKatona]

Yeah, I barely felt it in Massachusetts. Biggest East Coast quake in 100 years. Plus there's a hurracaine coming in. Oh boy.

[BrickWild]

Sometime last year, my suburb had a tremor at 10pm sharp. My wardrobe doors rattled and I thought that a volcano was about to erupt from underneath.

[K-Nut]

Are you meaning to tell me that you felt it here? Everyone else I've talked to weren't even aware of it.

I meant I didn't know anyone could feel it here either.

[LEGO Guy Bri]

Living on the west coast, I can confirm that.

2.8; probably less thrilling than hitting a speed bump in your car

[Aanchir]

I live in central Virginia, so yeah, I felt it. Knocked down a bunch of stuff from shelves and walls all over the house. Also cracked the chimney that's right next to my room, so I just finally slept in there again for the first time yesterday, once the hurricane was over and I didn't have to worry so much about the chimney crushing me in my sleep. Pretty scary.

Thankfully, I'm far enough inland that Hurricane Irene didn't do any damage at all, besides knocking down a lot of limbs from the trees in the yard. A lot of people further up along the East Coast got much more significant damage from the hurricane, and a lot of people in my hometown suffered more significant home damage from the earthquake (including many people in historic buildings downtown), so I think I've been immeasurably lucky in the past week.

Of course, my room which I had spent the first half of the summer cleaning is now very untidy, and since I'll be going back to college soon I might not have time to get everything organized again. Still, better a lot of work than injury or loss of life.

[Perry the Platypus]

I didn't, but I have relatives who did. But what we DID get was a tropical storm that was going to be a hurricane. Did anyone hear about that?

[CMP]

I didn't, but I have relatives who did. But what we DID get was a tropical storm that was going to be a hurricane. Did anyone hear about that?

Down here in the Gulf we got 'forewarning pours' in the week before it and caught the very fringe of it as it went by. Lost power for about an hour, but that's nothing compared to what it's usually like during hurricane season. My dad's office up in Rhode Island is totally disabled, but he does most of his work outside of it.

To be honest, I never thought hurricanes even occured in the northeast, but in all fairness there haven't been a ton in the past few years. Still pretty surprising to see a storm going all the way up there, though.