A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck with an epicenter 2.5 miles from my home on Friday morning…
You can’t make the stuff up. I can’t even believe any of this is real anymore. There have so far been more than 30 aftershocks, the strongest of which was magnitude 3.8.
I have now been next to the epicenter of the strongest earthquake in NJ since 1783, or possibly ever, next to two tornadoes, had military Black Hawk helicopters chasing me as I was getting my mail after teaching all day, and we are in a country that may soon be choosing to elect a Dictator. I don’t know how much more I can handle, and the weather seems rather inconsequential at this point.
My theory as to why the earthquake happened where it did is two-fold. One, we have had more rain since November than I have ever seen before in my life, and it was not even close. We have been running about three times normal rainfall since November, making the ground extremely saturated , like Jello. Then they decide to test bombs at McGuire Air Force base about 30 miles away. Some of the bombs were so big that they caused my entire house to shake and scared the hell out of my wife and myself a couple of weeks ago, causing my wife and I to run around the house lo make sure that everyone was ok and checking to see if something fell on the house. McGuire Air Force base has sent out warmings for a month that there could be ground shaking and large explosions in Central NJ. Well, yeah, they caused ground shaking alright. They activated the Ramapo Fault. My house sits basically on the Ramapo Fault, and if you drop bombs big enough to jolt my house, you can imagine what it is doing to the Jello like ground from 6 months of insane rainfall. Morons.
Anyway, the weather will be warmer with more rain, possibly heavy again late Thursday, then it should be nice for a while.
None of this seems real anymore. Everything seems just unreal and I really can’t believe any of this is real.
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