When all is said and done, we aren't going to remember the Debt Ceiling Debate and Debacle, Iowa Straw Poll, Tim Pawlenty's abbreviated run for President, Flash Mobs, controversies over Presidential vacations, The Green Lantern stinking beyond stink, or how you met this amazing woman at a pool party, but forgot her phone number and realize you just missed out on the love of your life (OK, that one might sting for a while). We will all remember Summer of 2011 for where you were at 1:51 PM on August 23. We had an earthquake.
And it was a real EARTHQUAKE! Your house or office was shaking! Stuff was falling off shelves! People were running into the street to escape the rumbling while screaming EARTHQUAKE EARTHQUAKE! There was true mayhem!
The earthquake dominated social media, since we couldn't make any phone calls to tell anyone about what just happened.
Twitter experienced 5500 tweets PER SECOND related to the earthquake.
Within 1 minute of the quake happening, 40,000 tweets were sent out related to the big one. That's before we really knew it was an earthquake.
Within 5 minutes, the word "earthquake" showed up in 3 million Facebook status updates.
Lindsay Lohan couldn't get that much attention if she fell down the stairs naked and landed face first into a pile of cocaine (and, you just know she tried it, right?)
But, we can joke about it now. No one got hurt, so we have spent the last day telling everyone where we were when it happened, making fun of the guy in the office who dove under his desk (because he is usually blabbering on and on about his tattoos and his motorcycle) and gluing our bobble head dolls back together (seriously, bobble heads are the true victims of this earthquake tragedy, it's the only item any of my friends lost during the big event).
It just goes to show you. We think we control our worlds, can plan every little detail of our lives and have the technology to conquer any problem or task. Yet, we are at the mercy of Mother Nature. In case you forget, she's tossing a hurricane at us this weekend. Take that, Mr. Naysayer!
The earthquake dominated social media, since we couldn't make any phone calls to tell anyone about what just happened.
Twitter experienced 5500 tweets PER SECOND related to the earthquake.
Within 1 minute of the quake happening, 40,000 tweets were sent out related to the big one. That's before we really knew it was an earthquake.
Within 5 minutes, the word "earthquake" showed up in 3 million Facebook status updates.
Lindsay Lohan couldn't get that much attention if she fell down the stairs naked and landed face first into a pile of cocaine (and, you just know she tried it, right?)
But, we can joke about it now. No one got hurt, so we have spent the last day telling everyone where we were when it happened, making fun of the guy in the office who dove under his desk (because he is usually blabbering on and on about his tattoos and his motorcycle) and gluing our bobble head dolls back together (seriously, bobble heads are the true victims of this earthquake tragedy, it's the only item any of my friends lost during the big event).
It just goes to show you. We think we control our worlds, can plan every little detail of our lives and have the technology to conquer any problem or task. Yet, we are at the mercy of Mother Nature. In case you forget, she's tossing a hurricane at us this weekend. Take that, Mr. Naysayer!
