[islandgal]

From my daughter at T Rowe Price office on the Baltimore Harbor:

"The earthquake was fun. No one believed me when I said it was an earthquake, I had just finished reading about the one
in Colorado today. As soon as I felt it i rushed to get my friend out of the building before she could freak out.
She was a swimmer in 9/11 getting out by hanging on to a ferry in the Hudson so she does not do well in out of her control situations.

The street lights and the windows across the street at the Hyatt were shaking like crazy.
They came in yelling for us to get out.
The streets filled with downtown workers but we had no where to go because of all of the bleachers that are up, one month early,
for the Indy race next weekend so we went and stood by the harbor.

Thank god there was not a tsunami in the harbor.... Standing next to a tall building is just like being in it, but worse.
All kidding aside, we had pretty bad damage in our building so they would not let us back in so we went to
our Disaster Recovery site out by the airport, since the markets were still open.
The structural engineers are coming out tonight at midnight so we are on stand by on where to go for work tomorrow morning.

So, the jokes have already started. The guy that sits next to me is from San Fran and all he did is laugh and call us names
all afternoon for being wimps.

Just cross your fingers Irene moves and stays to the East, otherwise we are swimming (she lives in MD right on the Chesapeake Bay)"