VIDEO: Exclusive Interview With Young Victim of the East Coast Earthquake UPDATE: Meet the Heroic Survivors

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HAGERSTOWN, Maryland
Reporting live from this previously peaceful community, mere miles from the epicenter of the devastating 5.9 earthquake:

Regular readers may notice that this emotionally traumatized victim bears a remarkable resemblance to my 8-year-old daughter, Reagan. And regular readers may also notice that the Earthquake Victims Relief Fund bears a remarkable resemblance to my tip jar.

It’s for the children!

UPDATE: Thanks to Dan Collins for helping spread the word about the catastrophic toll of this incomparable disaster. And thanks to Russ Emerson for his generous contribution to the Earthquake Victims Relief Fund. The victims are now demanding I take them to get Slushees . . .

UPDATE II: Earthquake Hits East Coast; Obama Blames Tea Party.

UPDATE III: The Lonely Conservative feels the pain of the young victims.

UPDATE IV: At the Earthquake Relief Center — which bears a remarkable resemblance to our local convenience store — the heroic young survivors recover from the emotional trauma wrought by this historic tragedy:

We appreciate the support of Fausta Wertz.

UPDATE V: Linked by Nice Deb — thanks! — and welcome, Instapundit readers!

63 comments

  4. The incredible smile at the very end is totally priceless!

    She smiles … despite the devastating tragedy!

  5. Thank God she got her looks from her Mom. 😀

    Yes, her dear mother — another victim of this tragedy!

  7. My kids felt it here in Clayton (20 miles southeast of Raleigh), I didn’t feel anything. Talked to my sister who was at work in Fairfax City, she said it knocked a few things of shelves and was alarmed enough to leave the building. Hope everyone is OK.

  9. Looks like at about 1:15 she’s going to crack up – she’s getting wise to your antics.  They do grow up too fast!

  15. So sad, a victim so young. LOL She is gorgeous. She gets her speaking talent from her dad for sure. 

  19. Felt shaking around Harrisburg Pa at that time. Very mild but since I live in a mobile home, it’s not as rigid as a regular house and so more noticeable.

    I wondered what happened but it didn’t last very long so I shrugged it off.

  20. It was such a devastating quake that afterward I found my wife’s four cats lying around in a catatonic state on our bed — obviously in shock! It took a lot of soothing from me to persuade them all was well, at which time they lay down on our bed and resumed the afternoon napping that had been so rudely interrupted.

  23. About ten years ago one of my layout engineers got on my laptop, then complained to me on the radio that there was no game of Hearts among the games. I explained that it was a “Built 4 You” custom configured from Compaq. He understood of course.

  31. I’m pretty sure Sally Struthers is so fat because she ate all the food we sent to the Ethiopian famine victims.

  34. It could be days before any Federal relief comes. Fortunately, the Walmart is just down the road. 🙂

  37. I’ve never used the expression before, because it seemed corny, but dangit, that little girl is cuter than a bug’s ear.

  38. Oh, the humanity of it all! ….screaming around here. I told
    you, I can’t even talk to people whose friends are  there. Ah!
    It’s–it’s–it’s–it’s … o–ohhh! I–I can’t talk, ladies and gentlemen.
    Honest, it’s just laying there, a mass of earth wreckage. Ah! And
    everybody can hardly breathe and talk, and the screaming. Lady, I–I’m
    sorry. Honest: I–I can hardly breathe. I–I’m going to step inside where I
    cannot see it. Charlie, that’s terrible. Ah, ah—I can’t. I, listen,
    folks, I–I’m gonna have to stop for a minute because I’ve lost my voice.
    This is the worst thing I’ve ever witnessed.

  42. You scoff, but the exact same earthquake would have killed 100,000 people in Iran.  And everyone (in the MSM) knows they are the superior culture.

  44. That’s what the Feds thought, too, at first.

    The earthquake monitoring service initially reported as slippage along a fault known to Washington as “Bush’s Fault”; however, further tests have revealed it was the Founding Fathers all rolling over in their graves at the same time …

  45. we are such a pansy nation
    hope nothing ever bad happens east of the Mississippi because we won’t be able to handle it.
    Upside, west of the Mississippi will be able to take care of everything without the federal government fracking everything up.
    and that is a beautiful young girl, almost makes me think there is a future for America, my beautiful young girl has started college at UNC, pray there will be opportunity and a good future for her and those young, bright, kind and sweet young men and women.
    God, help this nation. PLEASE, help this nation and world, forgive us our sins and faults, help us return to you.

  46. LOLOLOLOL! 

    Your kids sure know how to ride the victim train, straight to the Slushee Treat Store!

  48. I remember a quake in Indiana (of all places) in 1987.  My cat was outside at the time, lying flat on his stomach in obvious fear.  My hubs approached him, and he leapt into his ‘daddy’s’ arms (which he never did before or since).

    We lived on the edge of farm country, and my hubs said it was completely silent–even the birds stopped chirping.  Eerie.  I was driving to work in my old jalopy so I literally didn’t feel it!

  49. would a quake of this magnitude kill 100 K?
    maybe if it hits right, but if it hits richmond how many are dead?
    let’s respect Creation, we are not so big on an ocean of the Earth’s crust.
    I hope places that don’t suffer frequent earthquakes can handle it, but I doubt our resilience.  Hope I am wrong, as a pessimist must.

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