Earthquakes and Hurricanes

While I was in Maine the Baltimore area experienced a 5.9 earthquake.  Adam said that it was one of the scariest things that he has ever experienced.  Our condo is on the 3rd floor so I can only imagine the increase in intensity from being 3 stories in the air.  He said that he could hear things falling off of the wall in the condo upstairs and that water was sloshing out of our fish tank onto the floor.  One of my coworkers sent out this photo after it happened.  The subject in the email said earthquake devastation in Elkridge MD.  I thought it was pretty funny. 

Just when I thought that I had missed the natural disaster, hurricane Irene came through.  Adam and I went to the store to buy bananas the day before Irene was supposed to hit us and found the water aisles to be completely empty.  The bananas were also sold out. Check out some of the pictures we took from the grocery stores. 

This is where the bottled water normally is.

Store #2 looked just like the first one. 

The hurricane wasn't as bad as it could have been (at least where we live).  We had some high winds that uprooted trees and ended up losing power for a little over a day.  That wasn't a surprise to us though because we seem to lose power on a weekly basis for no reason.  The next day we decided to grill out at the park because we didn't have power to cook our food.  Once we found a store that hadn't lost power, we bought some bratwurst and headed to Centennial park in Columbia.  It ended up being a beautiful day.  You wouldn't believe that a hurricane had come through less than 24 hours ago. 

The grocery store lost power and moved all of the meat to the center coolers, surrounded it with dry ice and covered all of it with cardboard. 

Adam enjoyed grilling out.