E is also for … Earthquake
New Yorkers are not accustomed to having earthquakes. Today’s 4.8 quake had an epicenter in New Jersey. I’m on Long Island. My whole house shook.
I was more shocked than scared,
We are fine, no injuries or property damage.
Music Monday
Another “your choice” week. How about new music from icons of the 60’s and 70’s? Let’s start with Jimmy Buffett’s posthumous hit, “Bubbles Up”. The Rolling Stones released a new song in 2023, it’s called “Angry”. The surviving Beatles (with some help from AI) released “Now and Then”. And then Billy Joel … The AI effects in the video blew me away… A note about the AI effects … the Beatles used it to isolate John’s vocals on an old demo. Billy Joel had a young man play the piano then superimposed his own face onto the image of the younger man.
I was exercise walking in our local mall and neither of us felt it. That was unlike the 2011 earthquake that had its epicenter in Virginia. My desk and monitors were swaying - it was scary. Oh, by the way - we got a notification on our cell phones at 12:05 pm. Not exactly timely! Happy you escaped without injury/property damage.
ReplyDeleteI wondered if either you or Alana felt anything. I'm from CA. I'm used to them! A dog I had would start acting odd (more odd than her usual Border collie odd) before one hit. We'd say, "Anna's acting strange, there's gonna be an earthquake." Houses there always had cracks in the ceiling.
ReplyDeleteI've experienced a few tremors but have never been in an earthquake. Cyclone? Yes. Earthquake? No. I'm glad you're okay.
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it is a bit of a shock when it hits. And then it's good for two days of conversations. "Did you feel it?" "What were you doing?" And if anything of note occurred during it, you'll have something interesting to talk about.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you are ok. supposedly people in MA/RI/CT could also feel it, but I live in one of those three and never felt a thing. Idea-ist@GetLostInLit
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All around me people felt the earthquake, not me.
All my life I wanted to feel an earthquake, but nope not one shake, not one rattle. A friend on the other side of town wrote that she felt it! Me nothing!
My sympathies. There was an earthquake here in 2011 and I was in Florida so I missed it.
DeleteBy noontime, when the Yankees game started, I guess it was already a non-event. I kept waiting for John and Suzyn to tell us where they were and how they reacted, but they barely mentioned it. Too many home opener activities, I guess. PS Glad you're OK.
ReplyDeleteThe sportscasters on WNBC spent a lot of time interviewing players about the quake
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