Earthquake
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D.C. earthquake: Front-page woman in purple speaks!
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Every historic event requires an iconic photograph. In the case of Tuesday's earthquake, some might argue for the damaged steeples of the National Cathedral, but no single photo has risen above the others. Instead, I would argue that it's the photo — two, actually, but taken just seconds apart — of a woman in a purple blouse, her hands to her face in shock.
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Shaken by an earthquake, people realized they loved Metro
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Earlier this fall, an earthquake struck the Metro system ... and people began commending Metro left and right. How did WMATA handle that natural disaster so well while the Clarendon suicide was perceived so poorly?
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Why this Alexandria woman didn't become the next Antoine Dodson
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We can argue till we're blue in the face about the exploitation of Antoine Dodson (of "Bed Intruder" fame) and whether his popularity suggests we're all racists who think rape is hilarious. But the fact is, he made enough money off the whole affair to buy his family a new home in a neighborhood where people aren't "rapin' everybody out here." So good on him.
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Washington Monument earthquake video shows debris, and people, falling
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The National Park Service has posted three surveillance videos showing the scene inside the Washington Monument when last month's earthquake hit. In the clip below, an NPS ranger and others flee down a spiral staircase as debris rains down. It appears several people fell down, and that a real-life George Costanza stepped over them in his rush to get out.
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Washington Monument repairs to last through winter
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The Washington Monument, which was cracked — but not tilted! — by last month's earthquake, and further damaged by Hurricane Irene, will be closed and under repair through the winter.
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Dance to help repair the Ella Jo Baker Co-op
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This Friday, the regular Carryout Productions dance party at Ras becomes a special benefit for the Ella Jo Baker Co-op, a Columbia Heights building that suffered damage during last month's' earthquake.
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Earthquake-induced gridlock; Fixing the USPS; Gray admin. hiring woes; ‘Skins win
CommentToday on NewsTalk, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton praised the president’s jobs plan, hammered the federal government for its response to last month’s earthquake, and offered a possible remedy to the postal service’s financial problems.
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D.C. borrows $10 million to repair earthquake damage
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The recent earthquake in Virginia may have largely spared our area, but nonetheless, D.C. is borrowing $10 million from its contingency reserve fund to repair buildings and pay employees overtime — despite not yet knowing the actual cost of the damage.
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What's the next natural disaster to hit D.C.?
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None of the rules of three apply to natural disasters, but let us, for the sake of entertainment on a slow Monday afternoon, consider the awful possibilities — or hilarious impossibilities — of a third disaster hitting the D.C. area in the near future. Several TBD staffers have weighed in; bear in mind that some of them took the phrase "natural disaster" more literally then others.
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Technological traffic jam: how cellphones and social media changed how we handled the #dcquake
CommentTuesday's tremors made many evacuate their buildings with their cellphones in hand, but those devices that we all rely on so much proved to only do part of the job.
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D.C. earthquake causes Lego collapse at National Building Museum
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We all know what the D.C. earthquake did to actual buildings, but yesterday, once the hysteria had died down, we wondered how models of buildings had fared — specifically, the Lego exhibit at the National Building Museum. So we contacted them, and they responded with ... a press release that says two of the 15 buildings in the exhibit "suffered minor damage." This is devastating news.
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National Cathedral damage will cost millions to repair
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Two days after the D.C. earthquake, it's become clear that one of the biggest victims was the National Cathedral, which suffered a partial collapse of three of the four spires on its main tower. Fortunately, there was no structural damage, but unfortunately, the building didn't have earthquake insurance. How much will it cost to fix the spires, which are almost 100 years old?
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D.C. earthquake shakes hearing back into deaf man
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This past Father's Day, Robert Valderzak suffered a fall that caused him to lose his hearing — both a "conductive loss" and a "nerve loss," according to his doctor at Virginia Medical Center — and has been in the hospital ever since. On top of that, the 75-year-old VA patient is battling cancer. There are few people who need a break — or perhaps a miracle? — more than this man, and on Tuesday, when the earthquake hit D.C., he got one.
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Picture of the day: Metro earthquake updates invade Nationals baseball
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Even a Nationals baseball game didn't provide escape from these Metro updates this Tuesday after the quake rumbled through D.C.
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What we've learned from September 11th: evacuating in an emergency
Comment9/11 served as a tragic wake-up call for the government about how to proceed in an emergency.
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Evacuating during an emergency: how feds got out safely and quickly
CommentFederal agencies evacuated their buildings and were sent home early because of the East Coast Earthquake.
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D.C. earthquake playlist: The music we heard in our heads
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I was dressing in the locker room this morning when I noticed NewsTalk's Bruce DePuyt, in an advanced state of undress, singing a familiar tune: "I heard the earth / move / under my feet..." Clearly, yesterday's quake had planted the Carol King song in his brain. I'd been cursed, too, but by KC and the Sunshine Band's "Shake Your Booty." So I asked around the office, and learned that many of us had songs stuck on our heads. Miraculously, not a single person mentioned you know what.
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D.C. earthquake: Smithsonian animals knew the quake was coming
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You may have realized that the area was experiencing an earthquake when the ground started shaking beneath you. But there's an old saying about animals — they know. While your dog may or may not have been an effective warning, some of the Smithsonian National Zoo's inhabitants knew it was coming.
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