meaganola
Uh Huh Her
Gah, earthquakes. I was in the Nisqually quake in 2001 -- 45 seconds and 6.8, baby, and bricks were falling off buildings just a few miles from where I was sitting -- and *I didn't realize it was happening until my mom called me at work to see if I was okay*. She lived three hours away and heard about it on the news. I was in Redmond, just outside of Seattle, where it caused a *lot* of problems including power outages and the aforementioned bricks all over the place. I think that was the quake that resulted in the closure of the Frangos factory. It could apparently be felt in SALT LAKE CITY. When I left my former employer in 2008, the corporate real estate group (my department) was *still* working on repairs and retrofitting. I didn't notice a thing until Mom informed me that I had just been in one of the biggest earthquakes in Washington state recorded history, at which point I looked at the lighting fixtures and realized they were still swaying overhead. And there were two others in prior years (I seem to recall them as 1995/6 and 1997) I didn't notice either, although those weren't as big as the one in 2001. I think the second one was the one where acoustical tiles fell from the ceiling of the Kingdome in the middle of a baseball game, which is in large part how Seattle ended up with Safeco Field and whatever the football stadium is called. I fear the earthquake I *do* notice.
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