43 Replies to “Breaking: Washington DC Hit By Earthquake”

  2. I live in Pennsylvania and work in the greater DC area. Was chatting with a guy in his office (who comes from Thessalonica, Greece) who has been in a few when it came. He recognized it as an earhthquake before I did. Took about 10-15 seconds.
    I have been in a least one other where glass rattled; this is the first for me where the building shook. Some tiles came down and some people heard a loud crack in our building. The loud crack caused some to think it was structural; consequently the building was evacuated. However, we are back in now.
    Cell phone providers were overloaded and we could not initiate calls for several minutes; when I got through, I talked to members of my family over 100 miles away about an hour west of Philadelphia; they also felt it.
    Everyone is safe in our building.

  7. They were also saying it was felt through the middle of ontario in part’s ….to bad so sad it did not split the province in half leaving toronto on the eastern half lol.

  8. Just got an email from corporate advising that train times are expected to be delayed tonight because Metro personnel are inspecting tracks for the entire rail system.
    Good for me that I drive…

  9. My kids live in Greensboro,NC. My son said the house shook a bit but no damage. The epicenter would be about 3 – 4 hours away from them.

  12. Honestly, how could 19% of voters strongly approve of this bimbo? To approve is to be nuts, but to strongly approve is off the frickin’ charts.

  13. Actually, Obama got taken to that fantasy golf course to look for all those jobs that vanished, which of course is all Bushes fault. He’ll be paired up with O.J.

  14. I didn’t feel it in west-end Toronto but I was walking outside at the time. Several of Ace’s Toronto commenters and a Montrealer did feel it in the officer towers or tall buildings they were in. Similar reports there from throughout the NE such as Albany, NY.

  16. More from Corporate:
    Please be advised that traffic throughout the BID( Business Improvement District) is very congested; major news stations report significant gridlock throughout the region.
    Rail
    · All Metrorail trains will continue to operate at 15 mph until further notice as Metro personnel perform track inspections of the entire rail system.
    · Customers should expect significant delays on Metrorail until further notice due to the reduced operating speed.
    · The speed restriction is likely to remain in place for several hours and will likely affect the evening commute.
    · At Union Station, the Massachusetts Avenue entrance has been closed. Customers should use the First Street entrance instead.
    Bus
    · All Metrobus routes are operating with delays due to traffic signal outages and evacuating traffic.

  18. I suppose I should have read more carefully the email from Corporate before posting. In keeping with the sarcasm intended by the hostess and keeping in mind that Capitol Hill is included in the region noted:
    …major news stations report significant gridlock …
    Indeed.

  20. I was reading a comments thread attached to CBC’s story about the quake. Folks as far away as Sudbury on the North shore of Lake Superior felt it.

  22. How soon before we hear that AGW is the cause??
    Posted by: RGB at August 23, 2011 2:37 PM
    Yea, that are fracking.

  25. hmmm… missed DC by almost a hundred miles and Cheyenne Mountain by a good bit too…maybe the aliens just need a few ranging shots to calibrate their sights after the long trip before they go in for the kill over the ‘global warming’….let’s see if one of gore’s palaces is next… 😉

  27. of course ‘bama was on the golf course…why wouldn’t he be ?
    (CNSNews.com) – The White House has released some information about President Barack Obama’s vacation on Massachusetts’ upscale Martha’s Vineyard including his golf games, but no open press coverage of his time on the links has been allowed.
    President George W. Bush, who routinely allowed journalists to accompany him on golf outings early in his presidency, told Politico in May 2008 that he decided to give up the game in August 2003 after a bomb attack on the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad that killed a top U.N. official.
    “I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander-in-chief playing golf,” Bush said. “I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them.”
    “And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong message,” Bush said.
    On Monday, Obama spoke about the recent developments in Libya from Martha’s Vineyard.
    Bush said in the Politico interview that he had been golfing when he was informed about the deadly attack on the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad.
    “I remember (Sergio Vieira) de Mello, who was at the U.N., got killed in Baghdad as a result of these murderers taking this good man’s life,” Bush said in the interview. “I was paying golf–I think I was in central Texas–and they pulled me off the golf course and I said, ‘It’s just not worth doing this anymore.’”
    Following that interview, Bush was harshly criticized by members of the media, including Don Froomkin in the Washington Post, who entitled his commentary “Bush’s Idea of Sacrifice.”
    Froomkin called Bush’s decision to stop playing golf “a hollow, trivial sacrifice at best” and tried to present evidence that Bush had golfed after the date he said he’d given up the game. Froomkin also called the Politico story a “moronic interview.”
    According to a June 2011 article in Golf Digest, Obama played 60 rounds of golf over his first two years as president.
    From Obama’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2009 through July 31, 2011, at least 1,019 U.S. troops were killed in Afghanistan, according to a CNSNews.com database of casualties in that war. Those 1,019 deaths equal 64 percent of the total 1,588 U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan since the war started there in October 2001.

  29. Golf course, Bush’s Fault … LOL!
    I live in downtown Toronto, and I felt the quake. At first, I thought it might be the guys up the ladder cleaning the eaves but then I thought, “wait a minute! ‘No way a guy up a ladder can shake the foundations: EARTHQUAKE!!!”
    By my computer, it was 1:54 p.m.
    Osumashi Kinyobe, maybe you were walking or moving. I was sitting still. My husband was out walking and didn’t feel a thing.

  30. “O, sweet Saint of Bush’s fault, hear my prayer”…Sorry, had to say it.
    teehee!

  32. I’d like to know whether BO finished his round of golf after hearing the news about the 5.8 quake??? after, you know, someone whispered the news in his ear.

  33. re: Paul of Calgary’s “too bad so sad” lament that the quake hadn’t split Toronto off “on the eastern half.lol”
    Is there any city, any part of Canada that is good enough for these Calgary yahoos? They are getting so tiresome re: their civil war against Edmonton and the Rest of Alberta. Give it a rest Paul et al of Calgary. You are rapidly losing all credibility and soon will be in self-inflicted isolation from the Rest of Canada. OK?

  34. So the One has a Presidential Approval Index of -24 and a golf score of +24…just about what you’d expect from a empty golf shirt.

  36. From comments at the Washington Examiner.
    Breaking from Jay Carney: “We apologize for the disturbance, the president’s ego collapsed under the weight of all his bullshit.”

  39. Would loved to have seen all the Canadian Oil Sands sit in protesters dropping their signs and fleeing the wrath of mother nature..
    Wonder how many grabbed/started hugging a national park tree..

  42. Powerfactor
    Ha! I can see Barry citing this up there with the Arab Spring, Euro-meltdown and the Japanese disaster as another run of bad luck that scuttled the recovery summer and the rest of his presidency.

  43. The geophysical anomaly known as “Bush’s Fault”.
    PHUCK! that’s funny, har, har,….:) 🙂

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