I was at the top of the Columbia Center (Bank of America Building). The
tallest building in Seattle. It was awful. I crouched under a big desk
while it was going on. Everyone was really scared and people were crying.
The building swayed and creaked so badly, it was quite frightening. The
worst part was watching the window washers hanging from cables in a little
metal basket cage on the outside of the building (here towards the top).
They looked freaked out, but were OK; they were flushed red and chain
smoking cigarettes afterwards as the moving cables brought them back up to
the top. The building swayed so badly that I'm having vertigo problems.
>From the view up here, we could look out towards the south over the
industrial area of Seattle. We saw mushrooming clouds of dust coming out of
various locations.
Hope everyone else is ok in Tweetersland.
Franny Drobny
Seattle, WA

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Patterson [mailto:celata at pacifier.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 1:16 PM
To: tweeters
Subject: You guys okay up there?

Had a bit of a shake down here in Astoria and no word
from up north...

--
Mike Patterson Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo,
Astoria, OR it is not enough to be persecuted
celata at pacifier.com by an unkind establishment,
you must also be right.
---Robert Park
http://www.pacifier.com/~mpatters/bird/bird.html


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