Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Earthquake day

I assume everyone has read about the earthquake that we felt in Boston maybe some of you felt it like me.
Well here is my experience of it and then some.

I'm sitting in my office and all of a sudden I feel the building move. At first I thought I was just nauseous  but quickly I realized it wasnt just me. I looked around the room and all 4 of us just looked at each other like did you feel that?

That's when we figured it what it was. I guess I was in denial because my first thought was to get out of the building instead if getting in a doorway because I assumed Simmons had hired a cheap contractor to remodel the building we were in and the building was coming down. Deep down though I knew it was an earthquake.

Next thing I did was grab my phone and started to go for the exit. There was a lot of people doing the same thing. I thought I could feel the earth/building moving when I was leaving and when I got outside. We were the only building that evacuated. We all waited outside for maybe 5 minutes and then started to head back in mainly because we all wanted the free food waiting for us at the BBQ. We didn't take the elevator just in case.
To finish off this crazy event we had a technology BBQ which turned out to be pretty fun. My team came in second in the trvia game. I wouldn't of been able to use the prize for first place because it was an apple app store gift card.

This was my first earthquake and looking back at when the building was moving I was a little scared. I'm glad it wasn't a big earthquake for my first one. Lets hope another one doesn't hit us anytime soon.

No comments:

Post a Comment