Incredible video was released a few days ago showing the surveillance cameras inside the observation deck within the Washington Monument during last month’s 5.8 magnitude earthquake.
It was scary enough being nine floors up during the earthquake so I can only imagine being 555 feet in the air, at the top of a hundred-year-old thin needle-like structure. In fact, I can imagine it because I was up at the top of the Washington Monument just a month earlier – a close call by a geological timeline. So it very well could have been us up there in that mayhem. Wow.
Anyway, yesterday a “Difficult Access Team” from the National Park Service began rappelling down the Washington Monument to inspect it up close and assess the damages. It was a pretty incredible site. Today I noticed these special rangers from my office window so I snapped a photo. On the left is the shot I took from my window. On the right is a closer shot from AP.
