I survived the earthquake!
So I’m sure that most out there know by now there was an earthquake here in Ontario Canada yesterday. What?! You didn’t know that? Well, there was an earthquake here in Ontario yesterday. It’s centre was just North of Ottawa and measured 5.5 in magnitude. Now, I’m not in Ottawa (anymore… I lived there when I went to college), I live about 7 hours away and I STILL felt the quake!
Our studio is on the 9th floor so when the tremor started the building began to vibrate a little. I thought someone was just running down the hall behind me but then it got stronger. Computer monitors where rocking back and forth and everyone got up from their desks to look out the window. Not sure what they expected to see really. The best way to describe the feeling was it seemed like the building was wobbling back and forth. It was really quite scary. It last about 15 seconds so not very long, but long enough to shake up everyone in the studio. Even after it was done and over, I felt that if I rocked back and forth I could make the building sway again.
Even though it was just a minor tremor, the mind tends to make up “what if” scenarios. I work on the 9th floor of a building, if something more serious where to happen, would I be able to make it to safety in time? I have issues with death and dieing that I’m working through (that’s another post) so something like this made me a bit edgy. I wasn’t in hysterics or anything. I’m actually quite calm in emergency situations. It’s only after that I see how scary something was.
Anyway, I’m okay and by the sounds of it everyone else is too. Which is a good thing. ^_^
Has anyone out there been in a scary/serious situation before? How did you react?
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