Did Hurricane Irene wash away your memory of last week’s earthquake? Well, the Earth is moving and shaking — while Irene was doing her thing above ground over the weekend, five aftershocks were reported from underground in Virginia.
Plus, there’s still the little matter of that crack in the Washington Monument to attend to:
Photo courtesy National Park Service.
Last week, the National Park Service announced that it had hired Wiss, Janney, Elstner (WJE) Associates, Inc. as part of a group who will conduct a detailed assessment of the crack in the pyramidion and figure out the best way to fix it. WJE certainly has an interesting collection of previous work to boast of, including stabilizing Alcatraz and 14 years of work on renovations to the roof of the Kennedy Center.
