Can I just say that people here do not know how to handle a natural disaster and in the end of August they had a few opportunities to practice. I would give them a solid C- for effort. I can't say that I blame them for the mass chaos created by the earthquake and hurricane in the same week. After 9/11 everyone's first thought was attack. Having had the practice of earthquake drills in school I knew what was going on. However, I was not in a high rise building. I was at home sitting in my living room and I had just put Isaac down for a nap, and might I add that he was out! He did not even flinch. I wouldn't have even moved out of the rocking chair but the bookshelf next to it already has some stability issues and I didn't trust that it wouldn't fall on us. We were safe with no damage to our house.
Luckily it was just minor damage.
There was more damage right in DC. A few of the spires fell off of the National Cathedral and the Washington Monument is still closed due to this crack
Luckily it was just minor damage.Then that weekend we were lucky enough to meet Hurricane Irene. She was a beauty. I won't lie, we didn't let the hurricane slow us down. It was a perfect day for a little bit of shopping because everyone else was to busy buying water and batteries for the power outages that had been predicted. Like I said, they don't know how to do natural disasters here, not prepared for them at all!
It really wasn't as eventful as they made it seem like it was going to be, at least in my area. A lot of rain, but it rained even harder the next weekend, lots of wind, and our power was out for like 2 hours. Not 2 days like they told us it would be. It was an eventful week. I can now say I have lived through an earthquake and hurricane. Who would have thought that they would be in the same week! :)
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