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• Anonymous

  Shouldn’t Michelle Bachmann be telling us that this quake and the ones in the Millinocket area are messages from God telling us we need to get rid of LePage. 

• Anonymous

  2012 is less that a month away. Hope everybody bought food and bullets. Oh and ah I don’t except gold it doesn’t work for eating or shooting zombies.

• Anonymous

  I guess even mother earth is saying Thanks but no Tanks……….think about it.

• Anonymous

  12-21-12. Just over a year to go. Then I won’t have to support the welfare system anymore.

• Anonymous

  be nice 

• Anonymous

  Yah gahts tah Shake Rattle and Roll !
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CXFXB4uknI

• Anonymous

  I’ve lived in Sedgwick most all my life, never knew Caterpillar was a mountain. I was awake when the earth quaked last night. big boom and a few seconds of shaking.

• Anonymous

  The end is here!

• ledabeth

  Here is the map made from people who responded to the USGS that they felt it: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/ne/00001298/us/index.html

• Anonymous

  Aw come on, Paulie LeP, the way you’re working at it, the end could come tomorrow.

• Anonymous

  whew, i thank god that i survived the great blue hill quake of 2011

• Anonymous

  Nothing ever happens in sleepy Sedgwick. All we get is 2.7 seconds of fame?

• Anonymous

  Come on kids, it was a little earthquake. It has nothing to do with Michelle Bachmann or Paul Le Page, or welfare, or the end of days.

• Anonymous

  Felt an aftershock of the quake in Chile back in 2010. Sitting in my chair at the desk and all of sudden I felt like I was in a swing, but going side to side instead of forward and backwards.

• Anonymous

  Again?