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Where were you when the Nisqually quake hit?
 by KevinFreitas on 4/18/2008 @ 7:42am |
In Feb. of 2001 this area was dutifully reminded that we're in Earthquake country. So where were you when the Nisqually Earthquake hit? If you weren't here, have you ever been in another quake? |
 by Steph DeRosa on 4/18/2008 @ 7:59am | Coincidentally, my friend texted me this morning that his family was hit by an earthquake last night in Chicago.
During the Feb 2001 earthquake I was working at Bellarmine Prep in one of the really old buildings. It really swayed. |
 by izenmania on 4/18/2008 @ 8:13am | Second year Spanish class at Curtis High School. |
 by Mandiferous on 4/18/2008 @ 8:29am | ASL class on the 4th floor of Seattle Central Community College. Took hours to get home on the bus. Everyone was in a big damn hurry to get out of Seattle. Understandable, since chunks of buildings were falling off. |
 by AP on 4/18/2008 @ 9:04am | I was standing in the DuPont State Farm compound parking lot. Lots of shaking windows on the building, cars creaking and rocking, streetlamps swaying. Quite surreal, until 298347293748 State Farm employees streamed from the building to the parking lot in a frenzy. |
 by jenyum on 4/18/2008 @ 9:10am | I wasn't here for that one, but I was living in a high rise in downtown Seattle during the 1995 Point Robinson earthquake, which at a 5.0 was only very scary if you happened to be in a high rise and got to swaaaaaaaaaaaay to one side and then another and then back again about 6 or 7 times.
The entire 6-7 years I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area we never experienced more than a 5.0 (thankfully). Only the time I was under the bay on a BART train was scary, and not because we felt it but because we had to sit there in the tunnel under the bay for 15 minutes and wait for the go-ahead, |
 by zastica on 4/18/2008 @ 9:55am | I was at lunch in Mr Carins' room at Foss. I thought kids were running down the halls beating on the walls. |
 by thriceallamerican on 4/18/2008 @ 10:21am | I, too, was in Dupont, but at Intel. I eventually just drove home once I realized they weren't letting us back in the building for a while. Our cat, only 6 months old at thie time, was pretty wigged out.
The most interesting thing was that we'd just had our offer accepted to buy our house, and the inspection was the next morning. Good timing. :-) |
 by FunkomaVintage on 4/18/2008 @ 7:12pm | sitting in Dr.Duchins anthro class with Mark. we streamed out to stand under a concrete awning. apparently humans need more work. I was quite worried about the big fish tank at home. but alas, only the vcr had wiggled towards the edge of the TV. |
 by tacomachickadee on 4/18/2008 @ 7:39pm | Sitting at the computer in our tiny little rental house in the North Slope. It hit, and the first thing I did was run and grab Baby Girl. Then I stood in the doorway with her, ready to run out if the house fell down, or in if all the power lines started to come down. Then I logged out of (then-dial-up) Internet access ... and quickly smacked myself. I could have easily sent the "I'm OK" e-mail to the folks and others first, but for some reason I felt the need to turn everything off. Then couldn't get back on for ages. The hubby was in Olympia chatting at a coffee shop with a friend and watched the streets roll like waves. And then, since I was still in media-world, I got to go to work. Because that's what you do in media-land when natural disasters occur. Everyone gets to go to work. Yay. |
by KevinFreitas on 4/19/2008 @ 11:19am | I was in a meeting on the PLU campus in the Admin building. Got right under a desk and worried about a computer monitor (the old, heavy, non-LCD kind) atop a file cabinet taking a tumble. I swear a few new cracks appeared in the Library building I worked in but didn't see any other damage. My rental just down the street was fine but one of those super light, paper lamp shade Ikea lights fell.
I actually blogged about it all here and here. |
 by beerandhotdogs on 4/20/2008 @ 9:02pm | I was on the porcelain throne taking care of my morning paperwork during my first day off in months. I heard the dog whimpering outside the door and the house started a' swaying. I bolted to the front door, ready to introduce North Fife St. to their new naked neighbor. Thankfully, the house held up, and so did my reputation in the neighborhood.
C@TRH |
 by Nick K. on 4/21/2008 @ 2:07am | At South Puget Sound Community College (Tummwater) standing over my seat, spacing out in a mid- morning haze, waiting for my History class to begin. My first reaction was "Oh, it's just the construction work going on in the floor above.;" that was the first jolt. Then the main wave hit and everyone went towards the door, while I dove under the desk. Spent the rest of the day taking pictures of damage in downtown Olympia. |
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