The "Big" One

Yup, the Big one hit New York (East Coast).  A 5.8 earthquake hit the East Coast on August 23rd.  I was sitting in my office which is on the 4th floor of a pretty large office building and felt something very familiar to something I have felt all my life.  Well at first my thought was a big rig just passed by, but then realized there was no way a big rig (which are rare on the side of the building I am sitting).  I then was like, was that an earthquake?  Looked around a second and no one else was too excited so I went back to excel and pandora.  Within a few minutes everyone started milling around and the age of social networking really showed itself.  Twitter was abuzz with tweets about the earthquake.  Once word started spreading, people started freaking out.  Half my floor evacuated and everyone started leaving the building, thinking that it was on the verge of collapse.  

Little did anyone realize, towers with glass walls are probably not the best place to stand underneath.  

Though we did have a little fun in the office...I don't know how many of you guys saw this picture around the internet.  It was a picture of the devastation from Washington DC.

Apparently the same thing happened at my office.

Many of the office building evacuated for the day and people spent the rest of the day at home.  My team asked me if they could go home, and I said, "Are you kidding me".  We did spend the next 30 minutes talking about earthquakes and taking funny pictures and sending them around the office.

I think the earthquake was big news over the next 2 days... Come on NY really?  We were over 300 miles away.  Wake me when we get over 6 and is less than 100 miles away.

Though thanks to everyone for the texts, calls, and emails finding out if we were ok!