EARTHQUAKES AND HURRICANES. . . OH MY!

To be completely honest. . . I missed it.  I was sitting on the lawn outside the Hall of Philosophy listening to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson speak.   The Williamsburg historical enactors were here.   But walking back from that I heard the conversations about the earthquake that had hit Virginia!   Amazing!  Then my landlady, Anne came out and said she had felt it up in her apartment, and my friend Nancy later confirmed that she had felt it too, inside her apartment.   Incredulous!    So I go up to the gazebo where you can buy CD's of the lectures, and the young man behind the counter was asking people. . ."Did you hear about the earthquake in Virginia?"     So I asked him what city in Virginia it had hit. . .and he replied,   "Martha's Vinyard!"     I waited a second and said,  "No, I mean the epicenter."   And he replied,   "Yes I think it hit there too!"  Apparently it's pretty easy to get a job at the gazebo selling CD's.

I called Casey who described the shaking that happened in his building that scattered desktop detritus and book shelves. He said Chad was on the air when it hit and was "covering"' it live!    Then I called Sandy in Afton. . .which was much closer to the epicenter (where I understand it also hit)  and she said there was some real rocking and rolling going on there for about a minute, but that to her knowledge, no major damage.  I'm starting to feel pretty grateful that my house renovation had not started yet.   I'll have to see what gives at 75 Hillcrest when I get home on Monday.   The funniest part was the Facebook posting called  "East coast hurricane devastation" and featured a picture of one plastic lawn chair tipped over while the other ones were still upright.

And speaking of going home on Monday, the Weather Channel shows the path of a certain Hurricane Irene as it comes up the coast this weekend.  I had no prior knowledge of this storm, so it will be interesting to see if I am driving through any of that on Monday.    The real world rears it's ugly head into our little Utopia up here.   But it's getting closer to re-entry time, and re-enter I shall!   Full steam ahead.