I woke up this morning at 6 AM to Justin's phone ringing. It was his mom, checking to see if we were ok, or if the earthquake had gotten to us and we were goners under a pile of dusty rubble. "Earthquake?" he said confusedly. "Yeah," she said. An earthquake with an epicenter in Gaithersburg shook the walls of Montgomery County households at 5am this morning. It measured 3.6 on the Richter scale, which is lame by California standards, but unheard of by Montgomery County. We don't DO earthquakes. We do high stress, traffic jams, diversity, security clearances, bangin Ethiopian food, and summer pool leauges. But EARTHQUAKES?! Pshh.
Some announcer on one of the hip hop stations, who I listen to because he is funnier than the Kaine show people, said that he thinks it's related to all of the strange weather we've been having in the past six months. In case you've been living under a rock, that includes:
1. Nearly four feet of snow in the winter of 2010- the largest snowfall the region has ever seen.
2. Two weeks of 100 degree temperatures....in June and July
3. An earthquake.
Other people think it has to do with the ending of the universe in 2012, as my Facebook newsfeed enlightens me. I don't know if we'll have an environmental disaster or if 2012 will pass like any other year, but I think this weather, and the strange global weather patterns that happened in the past year, make it adamantly clear that we NEED to enact strict climate change policy, and NOW, before the ice caps melt and Silver Spring becomes the Sahara.
In the words of Roxana:
"We have GOT to be more green, Drea, because we are DYING."
In related news to the greening craze:
http://www.thenation.com/article/37529/clean-green-safe-and-smart
If I could reproduce with an online article, this would be it.
And now for some room cleanage. Hasta pronto!
