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Well, that was a strange sensation.
I was sitting here at my desk dutifully working on my next Journal story (and maybe staring a little aimlessly out the window at a beautiful summer day) when the turn-of-the-century row house I live and work in began to shake – violently.
Unlike the breathless announcers on cable TV, I didn’t think it was a terrorist attack. I thought it was maybe some kind of utility-related explosion. Except it kept going for maybe 10 seconds.
A framed picture fell off my living room wall. I jumped up and walked to my back deck to see what I could see. What else do you do in an earthquake? Stop, drop and roll? I knew it wasn’t just my imagination when I heard the day laborers next door shouting wildly in Spanish.
Then it was over. At that point, I did what seemingly every Washington journalist did. I jumped on Twitter to start crowing about it.
Both of my phones – land and cell aren’t working. Text messages seem to be going through intermittently.
Uh, here’s hoping we’re not expecting aftershocks.
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