An Earthquake in New York City

We felt the building shake at the Dunvagen office. We all went down the stairs. One man behind me was trying to shove his way through the crowd. I told him it wasn't helping matters.

Out in the streets, people from the nearby buildings gathered. It would take a few minutes before anyone started getting the tweeted news reports that an earthquake struck in Virginia. People were murmuring, saying it was a subway tunnel collapse, a terrorist attack and so forth. I wasn't going to wait around for news. Traffic moved down broadway without much change from its daily routine. It made me think whatever happened wasn't happening upstream. I headed for the nearest open space in that direction.

If it was our building that was shaking, or just our block, why would I want to be anywhere close to that if it were to topple? Call me old fashioned, but I think running away from what seems like a dangerous situation is a good method for self preservation.