Just the News: A magnitude 5.1 earthquake jolted residents on Sunday morning in North Carolina, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The quake reportedly was the strongest in the area in more than 100 years, and was felt in surrounding states.
The shaking emanated at 8:07 a.m. from an epicenter near Sparta in the northwestern section of the state, near the border with Virginia, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake was about 2.3 miles deep, and was preceded by at least four small foreshocks, the group said.
Local residents posted their experiences to social media, reporting fallen items and cracks in roads, but no major injuries. more
Nothing in Hanover Co.
And President Trump gets blamed in 3 – 2 – 1
…well, it IS my 24th anniversary and I wanted to make it SPECIAL for my lady, so, sorry, didn’t know the earth would move that far away, must be a fault line or something, I’ll try to tone it down tonight…
..and now Chicago is erupting in massive looting and gunfire by the peaceful protesters.
I wish there was a live feed so we could watch the congress of protesters tear the city down.
Gonad the Barbarian
AUGUST 10, 2020 AT 9:16 AM
“..and now Chicago is erupting in massive looting and gunfire by the peaceful protesters.”
…shh, it’s a secret, it’s not the story of White Supremacy and Orang Man Voter Bad that they want to tell…
…my wife’s got kin in the western part of VA, around Pennington Gap, and THEY weren’t impressed. That’s mountain life there, though, so they’re used to challenges and rocks falling anyway. We buried one of her aunts on a local plot made on tbe top of a former mountain where the peak had been shaved flat by mining and then it was converted into a cemetary, only funeral I’ve ever gone to where the funeral director said you couldn’t be in the procession if you didn’t have 4WD, and meant it.
And yes, the hearse was 4WD too. Had to be. Accessible only in a gravel road up the side of a mountain, and then ONLY if you knew where it was because it’s through trees growing up the slopes. In the procession you wanted to keep a gap so the car in front didn’t fling gravel into your windshield, and also because the truck in front of you might come sliding back.
Good times, good times…
Mountain living makes you work for everything and has constant dangers, so these folks aren’t easy to impress.
…but it would ALSO be easy to DEFEND, just sayin’…
TOO many Yankees done moved in!!! The state’s about to TIP OVER – right Hank? 🤪
I saw some pics of damaged homes. I am pretty sure almost none of those folks had earthquake insurance and are likely going to get a claim denied.
Lots of brick homes in the south. Masonry trades will be busy.