5.9 earthquake hits DC area
#16
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Del Ray, Alexandria, Virginia
Programs: KE Skypass, Morning Calm
Posts: 1,655
When I worked in downtown DC we had fire drills and - post September 11 - gas, bacteriological warfare, and dirty bomb drills, but never had an earthquake drill.
#17
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: JER
Programs: BA Gold/OWE, several MUCCI, and assorted Pensions!
Posts: 32,146
I'm pleased to discover that all our friends are OK, and that the overall casualty list appears to be a big Zero.
For the heroic cynics, who decry Health and Safety thinking ... goingaway wins the prize. ^
Your confidence in the structural integrity of any building after an earthquake is impressive, as is your complete failure to understand the word "aftershock".
May the Farce be with you ...
For the heroic cynics, who decry Health and Safety thinking ... goingaway wins the prize. ^
Your confidence in the structural integrity of any building after an earthquake is impressive, as is your complete failure to understand the word "aftershock".
May the Farce be with you ...
#18
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Greater DC
Programs: UA plus
Posts: 12,943
I'm pleased to discover that all our friends are OK, and that the overall casualty list appears to be a big Zero.
For the heroic cynics, who decry Health and Safety thinking ... goingaway wins the prize. ^
Your confidence in the structural integrity of any building after an earthquake is impressive, as is your complete failure to understand the word "aftershock".
May the Farce be with you ...
For the heroic cynics, who decry Health and Safety thinking ... goingaway wins the prize. ^
Your confidence in the structural integrity of any building after an earthquake is impressive, as is your complete failure to understand the word "aftershock".
May the Farce be with you ...
Happily no one was injured, yet the financial implications to many businesses and the overreaction of the people haven't been measured, and likely won't be. That impact includes the federal over reaction and early dismissal of way too many people, it just shows a lack of good business continuity and disaster recovery planning on their parts that the workers aren't being accomodated elsewhere, or the dismissal managed with less impact (I was struck by some woman's quote who worked in Falls Church, when it hit, she was on the 3rd floor of her building at work, she walked out, got in her car and drove home ... ummm, don't you still have a job to do? Were you told to leave? Did work close for the day? No, she just left)
Your memberships likely puts you on TSA "anything for security" approach to life, as well. I am happy to reject all such memberships, myself.
#19
Join Date: May 2004
Programs: BA blue, LH Senator, KQ (FB) gold
Posts: 8,215
As far as "insufficient resources being available to correctly check the structures and manage this process", I would hope that the Federal and Local governments would have insufficient resources to respond to a once in a century event. If they didn't, it would mean that they have too many resources 99.99% of the time.
I do agree that the early dismissal seemed unwarranted and caused more problems than it solved.
#20
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: JER
Programs: BA Gold/OWE, several MUCCI, and assorted Pensions!
Posts: 32,146
My bad ... I guess I would be more concerned about the safety of my people in that earthquake scenario that the generation of "productivity"/$$$$.
You clearly have a different angle on life, so I doubt we'll ever agree.
I still think TSA sucks, if that's any comfort to you.
#21
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: IAD
Programs: united, american, alaska
Posts: 1,782
Even more fun being near the top of one of those towers. No damage here on the 26th floor, but my other office, on the first floor of a building in Crystal City, has a lot of cracks.
#22
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: JER
Programs: BA Gold/OWE, several MUCCI, and assorted Pensions!
Posts: 32,146
Good luck with the weekend's weather event. I remember arriving 24 hours after Isobel in 2003 ... not a pretty or safe sight.
#23
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: DCA / WAS
Programs: DL 2+ million/PM, YX, Marriott Plt, *wood gold, HHonors, CO Plt, UA, AA EXP, WN, AGR
Posts: 9,388
I'm pleased to discover that all our friends are OK, and that the overall casualty list appears to be a big Zero.
For the heroic cynics, who decry Health and Safety thinking ... goingaway wins the prize. ^
Your confidence in the structural integrity of any building after an earthquake is impressive, as is your complete failure to understand the word "aftershock".
May the Farce be with you ...
For the heroic cynics, who decry Health and Safety thinking ... goingaway wins the prize. ^
Your confidence in the structural integrity of any building after an earthquake is impressive, as is your complete failure to understand the word "aftershock".
May the Farce be with you ...
Had there been danger of falling stuff post-quake, those folks would have been in a world of hurt. And in the unlikely event the buildings had collapsed - it really wouldn't have mattered if they were inside or out.
As for aftershocks, they are virtually always of lower intensity than the main quake. Usually by a substantial amount. (Yes, I know about pre-shocks). We knew the intensity quite quickly, the risk was materially lower.
She's around. I believe she canceled her mileage run this weekend...