Just letting the world know that all is well here at the palatial worldwide headquarters of MJ on Travel in northwest DC. Nothing like an earthquake on a day you’re working from home to spice things up a bit. Suffice it to say my rural eastern North Carolina born and bred self has not experienced anything just like that. I heard the quake before I felt it. As far as I can tell, no harm done. A few cabinet doors swung open and a couple of toiletries dropped out of the medicine cabinet. All things being equal, this 96 year old row house held up just fine.
If you’re flying this afternoon, pack your patient pants. This could be a humdinger of a day at the airport if you’re flying from the mid-Atlantic and northeast.
Glad to hear all is ok.
It’s kind of funny to me though, having grown up in Southern California and been on the fringes of the Northridge quake in ’94 and now living a little north of Tokyo and been in the 9.0 earthquake in March and all the subsequent aftershocks, I wonder, ‘5.8, what is everyone getting so worked up about?’
I guess location is everything and if earthquakes are unusual in a certain area it gets people’s attention.
Stay safe.
I hear you! But I’ve never experienced a quake. It was definitely enough to get my attention.