This year alone, its been a year of disasters. Tornados, earthquakes, tsuamnis, deadly disasters, etc. I don’t get why this year has to be busy in the department of Bad News.
I was already fretting about Hurricane Irene hitting the Northeast of the United States, New York and New England, Philly and the DC area the day the East Coast got a moderate 5.8 earthquake out of Virginia.

I love New York, the last time I have been down there was during Labor Day weekend of 2002. I been wanting to go there for a while. At the same time they have been a target of natural disasters the last few years. I don’t know why mother nature wants to ruin such a nice city (except for the yuppie neighborhoods such as Tribecca, and other hoods where the drunk and dumb socialites live and hang out) since the Five Boroughs have been hit with slight tornadoes, microburst winds, floods (within the last week), excessive heat, etc.
I was also scared that D.C. got rumbled too. I went there that 4th of July that same year and I went into the Washington Monument. I was a little relived after hearing confirmed reports that the only damage it got was the top of the steeple that got cracked.
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I am still shocked out of disbelief that there was no major damage. I am still shocked that none of the nuclear plants had major issues and I am quite surprised that the Indian Point nuke plant in Rockland County, NY had no problems (since the safety of that plant has been a recurring headline for years.) I vaguely seeing that plant when I was on the NYS Thruway crossing the Tappan Zee Bridge one day and I was lucky to see Manhattan from the distance. (I don’t kid when I admit I am a NY brat – I’d never live there even if I think of it as my second home.)  I was quite shocked that the MTA subway lines had no problems.
I found out this surprise chain of events a couple hours later after the initial shock. I was out in the Nashua area of New Hampshire minding my own business and enjoying life when this thing happend. I got scared when the reporters and anchors of the various cable nets saying there is nothing wrong and no deaths, injuries or major destructions. And why was I scared? Because I couldn’t believe (and still can’t) given the area must had gotten a magnitude 5 as the quake traveled. And since I do know that even though this area doesnt get earthquakes, I do know that we are ether due or at risk. And a Magnitude 5  would be an equivalent  to a Magitude 7 on the Richter scale in West Coast standards.
Philly got some rumbles too and Boston barely got hit. No reports that the Zakim Bridge and the leaky Big Dig Tunnel got any serious damage.  I’d bet if a small quake hit Boston that the those less than 15 year old infrastructures would give in thanks to the shoddy government and construction firms in Massachusetts.
What was also eerie for me on Tuesday was I was routinely listening for some area news from stream of the all news station in New York, WCBS 880. And during the weather report, the weatherman was talking about how cool the City was going to be for that day (giving they have had a rough and hot and humid summer so far) with a low 80s temperature. The weatherman from the TV side of WCBS was saying something to the effect to go out and enjoy the weather. Little did anyone know there was something more interesting a few hours after that report.
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So after that incident, and this Hurricane Irene going to hit the region in some way, is continuing to scare the crap out of me. I’ve had an unusually busy week and this storm was freaking me out and to add the quake on top of everything. Im scared of the storm ruining the region, and also killing people too.
I hope the buildings in the southern cities from here can handle the winds and rain if there is some damages from the quake this week. I’m scared still that the world is going to end at some point, and I think someone upstairs may not be looking over us. I equate the god with disasters as negative, and I associate hell as vicious disasters.
Im scared about my area getting hit too and I don’t want to go through like what happened 5 years ago with the Mothers Day floods and spend months and weeks and days cleaning a mess. I just want normalcy. I can’t wait for Tuesday to come not only for these disasters but so my already crazy week to end and I can just move on with my life.