By Katarina Hybenova
If you spent past 24 hours meditating in a cave in Nepal, or if you just happened to be returning from your weekend getaway at Neptune, you probably don’t know that we had an earthquake yesterday! The entire Bushwick (ok, ok some other people too, e.g. the rest of the East Coast, it’s not like we’re Bushwick-centric) now knows, how the magnitude of 5.9 feels like. And I can tell you it feels funny, shaky, and a little swayi.
You probably saw your lamps, and felt your stomach swaying from side to side. I personally accused my roommate of shaking my desk when I’m trying to work, when she yelled “Earthquake!” and tried to run out of our Bushwick apartment. I argued that this is no California, and therefore this cannot be an earthquake. After the shaking continued, I decided to check on twitter, whether this was a real earthquake or not. Because where else would you go to verify if there was a natural event/potential disaster in progress. These are the Bushwick/Brooklyn tweets I saw:
Ok, so my roommate wasn’t the only one who thought it was an earthquake 😉
um sitting in my apartment in bushwick and we are having an earthquake?
— J. Escobedo Shepherd (@jawnita) August 23, 2011
And really, twitter is the place to find out, about everything basically…
I knew that twitter was the right place to go to verify if really! RT @hragv Yes, we just had an earthquake in brooklyn.
— bushwick daily (@BushwickDaily) August 23, 2011
Some of our favorite art bloggers were quick enough to tweet about some earthquake art. Seriously, I admire the speed 😉
Some #earthquake art? Sure: Max Ernst's 1925 "Earthquake" from @MuseumModernArt collection. https://t.co/4vPta9G
— L Magazine Art (@LMagArt) August 23, 2011
…and some haters out there envying our earthquake in NY. well, you gotta deserve one, you know 🙂
Great, an earthquake in NY. I give those shitfaces less than a week before they start professing superiority in subterranean tremors....
— ConOat (@ConOat) August 23, 2011
Don’t worry, David, not only Bushwick is really important, we felt the earthquake here too! wohoo!
Did I just completely miss and earthquake? Is Bushwick not important enough to feel the shakes?
— David Siegel (@ExecDishwasher) August 23, 2011
Actually, it’s good to check if everyone is ok…
Glad ur ok, in Bushwick, no? RT @cjmarino: Still feeling a little rattled from the #earthquake --- our whole block swayed from side to side.
— Erika C. Pesantes (@epesantes) August 23, 2011
True…. The trucks are ruining the earthquake experience by making the earth shaking less special!
In industrial bushwick it's actually a little hard to tell between an earthquake and hundreds of huge trucks rumbling by.
— Benjamin Apple (@benjaminapple) August 23, 2011
….and finally some hipster tweets 😀
Bushwick felt this earthquake like 6 months ago. Not at all impressed, primarily because the earlier stuff was better.
— Ryan Griffin (@rgriffin) August 23, 2011