We’ve been in our new Melville office for just about a month. During that time, we’ve experienced a lot of new things — new clients, new commutes, even new furniture, but something new for all of us in the office on Tuesday, August 23rd, was the earthquake.
It wasn’t anything like the 5.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Virginia the same day, but for the offices in 145 Pinelawn Road it was scary and a first for most of us.
“Ellen, did you feel that?” said Kriste Galvani, HJMT’s Senior Vice President. Little did she know, I had already bolted out the door and was outside calling her from a stranger’s cell phone telling her to get out of the building.
“Kristie, get out of the building! I was too scared to stay!” I said.
Soon after, Kristie arrived outside and we figured out what had happened. We tried getting in touch with our loved ones, but most of the calls weren’t going through. We stood and chatted about it with the other workers in the building. Eventually, we got in touch with everyone and all our friends and family were safe and unharmed. Phew!
Although it was completely frightening, there were some benefits to the earthquake: We found out where the stairwell is in our building (always a good thing to know), we got some fresh air, and we got to meet the other companies in our building, which adds one more thing to HJMT’s list of new experiences in our new office– making new friends!
We hope that everyone in the earthquake is safe and sound. If you felt the earthquake share your experience with us.
Ellen, we felt it in Canada! We were at a diner and I went out to get my sweater. When I came back everyone was talking about the earthquake. I didn’t believe them. It was almost like I was on the twilight zone…
It was SO weird! No one knew what was going on, we all thought the building was going to collapse b/c it was shaking! So scary!