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Re: 6.0 Earthquake - VIRGINIA

By: micro in CONSTITUTION | Recommend this post (0)
Tue, 23 Aug 11 11:25 PM | 39 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Constitutional Corner 		Msg. 14621 of 21975
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My daughter who lives in Richmond had just got on an elevator to leave when the quake hit.
She immediately forced open the door and got off.

That is a different feeling for anyone who has never "felt" one before.

Daughter took the emergency stairwell and left the building, and left the city before she got stuck there.

Her office overlooks the Virginia Statehouse there on the hill. She is on the 15th floor of her building and her office is one big window looking right at it! Quite a view.
It is inspiring when one considers Thomas Jefferson was the architect of it and he did it from France while he was ambassador. He sent over the drawings and a scale model. The model is kept in glass and is on display for the public to see.

Quite a place. A lot of history there.


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Re: 6.0 Earthquake - VIRGINIA
By: DueDillinger in CONSTITUTION
Tue, 23 Aug 11 9:55 PM 		Msg. 14615 of 21975

Rare indeed. I felt it here in 'Jersey. My wife, who grew up in California, called and told me that her co-workers wondered why she got up from her desk and sheltered in the doorway of the old brick building where she works. Old habits, she said. LOL!

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/at00lqe6x3.php

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