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Volume 57, Number 34 • September 1, 2011
County folks talk about earthquake Most report just minor damage By Jim Fields jfields@mechlocal.com
Photo by Ken Odor
A downed tree on Hawktown Road hangs on a powerline after Hurricane Irene passed through the area Saturday. Goochland County fared better than some metro areas, where about 75 percent of residents were without power last weekend.
Earthquake brings down the chimneys, Irene disrupts power By Ken Odor jodor@goochlandgazette.com
“It put the fear of God into you,” said Kitty Hubbard of last week’s election-day earthquake. Hubbard, who lives in “Whispering Oaks,” a two hundred-year old house in Hadensville, said reports that
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only minor damage was suffered in Goochland irritated her. She lost three chimneys that are not covered by insurance. “It frightened me to death,” she said, recalling the sound of bricks falling down into one of her fireplaces. She said rebuilding them will cost around $2,700.
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The 5.8 magnitude quake struck at 1:51 p.m.Tuesday, Aug. 23, with its center near Mineral in Louisa. The worst damage occurred there, with two Louisa County schools closed for the rest of the year. But Goochlanders were affected see Disasters > page 10
Everybody has a story about where they were and what they were doing last week when a 5.8 magnitude earthquake, with its epicenter near Mineral, shook hard enough to be felt in 22 states and Canada. Ricki Lanyi owns Patterson Sports Park and had experienced earthquakes before. “We used to live in San Francisco and went through a few out there,” she said Thursday as she drank her morning coffee. “When this one hit, I was inside the little building we have on the property. I felt things start to shake and the windows were rocking and rolling, so I ran outside. I could see the ground shaking and my dog was running around. I guess it lasted about 20 seconds. We didn’t have any damage, so I guess we were pretty lucky.”
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J o e Doll, who was having a conversation with Lanyi while hitting golf balls, was taking it Lanyi easy. “I was in my office and had my feet up on my desk,” he said. “At first I heard what I thought was a big truck drivDoll ing by my building, but it just kept coming. I got up to see what was going on and that’s when things started shaking. I own a restaurant and Parker could see the wine glasses shaking. That’s when I knew it was an earthquake and all I could think see Quake > page 3