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NO! My ark will not sink!

Tehcncally earthquake would be first, hurricane second if it doesn't fish... Gotta wait a few more days for that.

Lolz to the quake being a foreshock

Good luck to those in the DC area trying to get home!

Thank goodness you weren't out on the dam today like you were supposed to be!

oh wow... yeah nothing like that here.

Mod seems about right, definitely shaking and rattling going on during it. but nothing fell over, at least in my cube.

damn, i was really curious to see what you felt. it was pretty wicked 3 stories up.. and yes, everyone was out on the street shortly afterwards. Though buses were still running as scheduled! haha

Some reports of bricks off buildings here in Baltimore where is NEBaltiZen? I wanna know how it felt in a high rise

good to know - my mom cannot get a hold of my grandmother who was supposed to be in rockville today

I work in the city, is assumed that was the case. Until I looked outside and watched construction workers running away from the edge of a building roof they were working on, thats when the second shake occurred, much stronger than the first.

I won't lie, I thought at first a truck hit my building. Then when the second shake occurred, I just sat in my cube and went "awesome" while my coworkers are running out of the building.

anyways... back to irene...

THAT WAS AWESOME

Note to self: next time earthquake hits... don't be in a building in Baltimore

Wow, thank you for sharing that JoMo.

This. My mom, who has watched me become obsessed with the weather over the years, still doesn't know the difference between the two... no matter how many times I try to explain it to her. Also, the radio station I listen to during my commutes always mix up watch and warning when there is one for us. The last tornado watch we had, the radio host kept saying "and we have a tornado warning until 8pm". I wanted to call in and correct her, but didn't. As for those who don't take warnings seriously - a coworker from St Louis called me yesterday to tell me about her evening on Wednesday, how warning after warning was issued for the area and she said she eventually got tired going to the basement. She said she just sat in her living room and watched the news, heard about the baseball size hail falling in downtown St. Louis and laughed to herself about I would be upset that she wasn't taking the warnings seriously enough. I didn't get upset, but did voice my concern over how she really shouldn't do that because one of those times where she decides not to go to the basement is the time the tornado will actually be there.

I've heard that be described by people who have been through tornadoes before, the smell of fresh cut grass. JoMo - glad to hear that you are okay. Thank you for sharing your experience with us, and I'm sorry to hear that you lost people you knew.

Wow posted this earlier in the May 21-22 severe thread when someone asked about whether they heard from JoMo or not.

That is exactly what I was thinking! My husband, who also works in the GIS field, as done simliar KML maps for his company (a transportation engineering firm) and he has taught me a few things about KML as he learned it too. I keep hoping for some free time at work so I can mess around with it.

I agree with you on decimal degrees and you are welcome for the compliment I need to brush up on KML, play around with it some more. My mind is going crazy thinking of all the cool things you could with the data.

Well, from someone who works with GIS daily, it's a fantastic map! Have you worked with KML files (google earth) before? It would cool if you could take those storm reports points with the attribute data and export them to KML files so they can be opened into GE for people to view (Norman did that with the tracks, but didn't have anything you could click on).