Pretty freaky, Franny. I know I about freaked in my building in Renton. I work at FlightSafetyBoeing (we provide pilot training on full flight simulators) at the Longacres complex and I felt the initial shaking, but after about
10 seconds of progressively worse shaking, got under my desk (I'm on the third floor--leaving was not an option). I watched my CPU fall over, the desk drawers opened, the light fixtures swung, my plant fell off and the pot broke,
file cabinets fell over, sheetrock cracked, sprinklers went off in the atrium. All in all a *very* scary experience! However, in spite of minor personal property damage on the home front (some drinking glasses, a vcr, little
stuff!), everyone is okay. Shook up, but okay. (Traffic was a nightmare!)

Susan Muttart
Sumner, Washington
email: smuttart at qwest.net

Franny Drobny wrote:

> 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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