Being one of the movers and the shakers
Aug. 23rd, 2011 04:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
murakoziGee, I never thought I'd be a coffee achiever.
As was the case for a lot of people around here today, I got to experience my first earthquake.
While my California friends have described it as 'fun size' and "a little one," when you live somewhere where earthquakes are rare, even a 5.8-6.0 (depending on the news source) is a bit of an event.
It started out with some vibration in the building My first thought was that there was some HVAC or other work beign done on the roof. My company is on the top floor, so it's not unusual to feel/hear something when work is goin on. After a couple seconds it got more intense and it was obvious it wasn't maintenance stuff. I dunno how long it lasted. Probably not more than 10-15 seconds, maybe a bit more, but it had everyone out of their offices and in the hall wondering what'd happened. Checking out the windows on various sides of the buildings, we pretty much ruled out a plane crash. One of the VP's thought it might've been a bomb in the garage, since hed been in a bombed building before and thought it felt the same.
Then the building management company set off the fire alarm to evacuate the building. I made sure all the people in the part of the building I'm responsible for were on their way to the stairwells and out we went. Fortunately, it's only in the low 80s outside, so we got so spend a pleasant, if boring 45 minutes or so out in the parking lot waiting for the all clear to come back inside.
I'm just glad that it wasn't severe enough to make any of the aquariums fall over or their stands fail.
So, yah. Earthquake. That's one more thing to check off the list of things I've experienced.
As was the case for a lot of people around here today, I got to experience my first earthquake.
While my California friends have described it as 'fun size' and "a little one," when you live somewhere where earthquakes are rare, even a 5.8-6.0 (depending on the news source) is a bit of an event.
It started out with some vibration in the building My first thought was that there was some HVAC or other work beign done on the roof. My company is on the top floor, so it's not unusual to feel/hear something when work is goin on. After a couple seconds it got more intense and it was obvious it wasn't maintenance stuff. I dunno how long it lasted. Probably not more than 10-15 seconds, maybe a bit more, but it had everyone out of their offices and in the hall wondering what'd happened. Checking out the windows on various sides of the buildings, we pretty much ruled out a plane crash. One of the VP's thought it might've been a bomb in the garage, since hed been in a bombed building before and thought it felt the same.
Then the building management company set off the fire alarm to evacuate the building. I made sure all the people in the part of the building I'm responsible for were on their way to the stairwells and out we went. Fortunately, it's only in the low 80s outside, so we got so spend a pleasant, if boring 45 minutes or so out in the parking lot waiting for the all clear to come back inside.
I'm just glad that it wasn't severe enough to make any of the aquariums fall over or their stands fail.
So, yah. Earthquake. That's one more thing to check off the list of things I've experienced.