Natural Disasters

For those like us who don't own a TV, let me tell you what's been going on here the past week. No, there is too much - let me sum up.

Tuesday afternoon we had an earthquake! I was sitting at work when I felt things start to shake. At first, I assumed it was just a big truck rolling down the highway that is right outside our window. A few seconds later, I realized it was still happening so it probably wasn't a truck. My next thought was terrorist attack. Thankfully, that was not it either. As things continued to shake, it finally dawned on me, "Hey, this is an earthquake!?"

For those keeping track at home, we have been in an earthquake before. A couple of them, actually (including one when I was very little in which I refused to abandon my cereal and get under the table). But that was when we were living in So Cal. You can imagine my confusion when I realized I was in an earthquake in DC. It was very Twilight Zone-y. Apparently we didn't cover our tracks very well, because the earthquakes have followed us here. Sorry, DC kids.

It was a 5.8 with an epicenter 84 miles SW of DC.

Mother Nature, however, decided that a random earthquake wasn't enough. So we have a hurricane heading up the coast as well. Ocean City, where we went to the beach the other week, is evacuating.

In the initial projections, DC was in the DangerCone™. That's probably not the real term for it, but that's what I like to call it (cue the Top Gun music).

Here is the latest projection. We are safely out of the DangerCone™, but we'll probably still get strong winds and a lot of rain. It's supposed to hit Virginia tomorrow night/Sunday morning. We'll let you know how it all goes.

As somebody at work put it, "I feel like I'm in a bad game of SimCity... I just hope the UFO invasion isn't next."

Also, Natural Disasters would be an awesome name for a band.