A Freight Train? Thunder? 'Holy Cow...earthquake'

Apparently I lived through an earthquake this morning. Hmm, guess I can strike that off my bucket list and proudly call myself a quake survivor! (insert sarcasm) :p


So what do we know of this, other than for Mother Earth telling us to quit playing with her home? It hit at 5.04am eastern time with a magnitude (what happened to using the Richter scale for seismic measurements?) of 3.6 and the epicenter was in Germantown about 10miles from where I live.


Right now we can divide folks into two categories: 1. Those that felt the quake and 2. Those that slept right through it (and judging from what i've read, most fall into this category, LOL*) 


Me? Need you ask? Hell yea I felt it BUT rather than thinking it was an earthquake I actually thot is was the effects of my nite out and only getting to bed at 3am. Oops! 


OK so i promptly went back to sleep and as i always do these days upon waking up I check twitter (judge me not) and lo and behold it was not the 100 little men doing the hangover jig in my head, IT WAS AN EARTHQUAKE!


I got a kick out of some of the tweets on #dcquake and i share some with u....

• The DC earthquake wouldn't have happened if my NASA friends didn't punch rockets through atmosphere. Like BPspill in reverse.

• So, the women of DC aren't scantily-clad enough for a Big One? Come on, ladies, kick it up a notch! Let's get to at LEAST 4.5

• West End Bistro offers Aftershock Cocktail, $3.60 in honor of magnitude. Californians have to be laughing at us weak Washingtonians

• Earthquakes are actually a lot like politics - great reminders that there's really no such thing as solid ground.

• Between the earthquake and the hot weather, today is "Quake and Bake" day in Maryland.

• Wait, that was an earthquake this morning? I thought it was just a car with some awesome bass driving down the street

• In fact that quake in Gaithersburg wasn't even an earthquake. It was more like an earthfart.

• Apologies for the earthquake this morning. Wife and I will try to tone it down a bit next time

• Two ex-boyfriends texted me after DC earthquake, asking who I was with and what I was doing

• Hey DC, Haiti and Chile just called, told you to shut the fuck about this tiny Earthquake & to send aid to them.

In summary, 2010 in Washington DC has given: Record snow fall. Record heat wave. Today's first quake since 1935. What's next? A Hurricane?? Bring It On baybeh :))