disasters – Gwen Hernandez

Some rain must fall

September 8, 2011Gwen HernandezRandom

Into each life some rain must fall. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Well, it’s been an interesting few weeks in northern Virginia. First the earthquake, then the hurricane, and now the flooding. Let the political jokes commence. While my area of town hasn’t had the drastic flooding that some areas around D.C. are suffering, it was bad

Quakin’ in my boots

I had a totally different post planned for today, but then at 2:20ish the earthquake hit. Well, of course, now I can’t think of anything else. It brought back memories of my very first earthquake—and boy was that one a doozy—the devastating Quake of ’89 in the San Francisco Bay Area (aka Loma Prieta Earthquake).