I just had a (hopefully) once-in-a-lifetime experience...and it didn't include any Pixie Dust. I was on the 33rd floor of a high rise (and high terror threat) building in midtown Manhattan when we felt the 5.8 earthquake from Virginia.
The floor literally did the wave - potted plants almost fell over! Panic ensued pretty quickly in my office and I got the H - E double hockey sticks out of there as quick as I could.
Anyway, returning to work after that was optional, and since I'm rarely (*ahem... never) willing to die for a corporate cube job, I went home. Now I am happily home, in my safe low-rise prewar Manhattan apartment, sipping wine and writin' mah blog with ze kitties.
Anyway, returning to work after that was optional, and since I'm rarely (*ahem... never) willing to die for a corporate cube job, I went home. Now I am happily home, in my safe low-rise prewar Manhattan apartment, sipping wine and writin' mah blog with ze kitties.
On my walk to my apartment, I decided this would be an appropriate time to comment on the natural disasters hitting the East Coast - Hurricane Irene and Earthquake 2011.
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| Hurricane Irene hammering Puerto Rico |
Obviously we couldn't see the earthquake coming in order to prepare for it, but Florida and Disney often have many days to brace for a major hurricane (according to the most recent updates it looks that Irene will bypass Florida to the East but hit S Carolina).
So how does Disney World prepare for and protect itself against major hurricanes? Thank you to Themeparkinsider:
