Mousekateer Roll Call - Earthquake style

[Maitre]

I was at work at the time in Ashburn, VA, the room shook pretty violently for about 5 seconds (the room is raised floor and second floor in the building), but outside of that, no big deal (although one of the guys there that had never been through an earthquake before looked like he was going to jump under his desk... :p)

I was just up the road from you in Reston - though I was on the 13th floor. I think being elevated was the only bit that had me worried. In an area where earthquakes are ~1/100 yrs, I'm not sure what the building code says about earthquake-proof construction. All of the folks in the offices around me stuck out their heads and looked at each other as if to say, "I guess we're not all that crazy, so the building must have been shaking." We all kind of went back to work, before the office manager's assistant came round to say that we were ordered to evacuate. In the end it was an anticlimactic "meh" moment, but I'm unbelievably greatful that it turned out that way instead of an "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!" sort of moment.