So...there was a earthquake?

Apparently, there was an earthquake yesterday. I did not feel it. I am not upset about this. I felt one years ago on the west coast (6.1) and thank you very much, I do not need to experience that again. I am all about doing things that leave me terrified (or I was at one point...now the only thing I am willing to do that is terrifying is dating) like roller coasters with a screaming 8 year old (it heightens the experience to have someone who is legitimately terrified sitting next to you) or free climbing rockfaces.

TEA was able to experience it by watching the water of his fish tank slosh back and forth.

The Slate Culture Gabfest was recording during the middle of it, and the audio is comical.

I was watching MSNBC and reading something stupid as it happened and I noticed nothing.

So, that was my experience. Others, including close friends and family, had to evacuate buildings, and had a brief moment of real terror.

Then the Tweets and Facebook posts came in...

Some of them bothered me a little (or a lot). Specifically the ones from friends in LA and Seattle who presented messages like "5.8. Yawn." Really?

I have been pleasant when you have issues that people in the Northeast treat with calm and jokes while y'all FREAK THE F**K OUT!

Think about it and try to remember when you had three days of rain in LA last year. Or PNW folks, remember the "devastating inch and a half of snow that you had last year"? No, you are not used to things like that, and it is understandable that you were freaked, but...you cannot have it both ways.

So, let people be freaked out about the earthquake. I will let you be freaked out about a little bit of snow or rain.

(By the way, there were also a lot of people who were kind and respectful and I am trying not to paint with too broad a brush.)