oh crap
September 27, 2006
the building is shaking back and forth really badly.. and a satellite dish just flew off the roof next to me. im not sleeping.
the trip, taxis and tropical storms
the building is shaking back and forth really badly.. and a satellite dish just flew off the roof next to me. im not sleeping.
Our building’s shaking too, and it’s not as if it’s a cheap building.
Good luck getting back to sleep – nothing else to do, really, but wait it out.
[...] It’s a kind of milestone I think that bloggers like mr. fuji meets manila (latest, here; but the best heading in the series: oh crap) and Tech in Black live-blogged the storm! Leigh Reyes has a YouTube video up; myka’s site also links to a video of damage in a gated community. pinoysnapshots (familiar to readers of this blog as baratillo@cubao) has, well, snapshots: a snippet from his blog: Then the building began to wobble. A subtle wobble: a horizontal shift from left to right. At first only one person noticed it. The others notice it as well. And another person noticed it. Like an aikido master the building was dancing and deflecting against the wrath of storm. At one of the points on the office floor one could hear the flexing sound made by steel and concrete as the building did its tango with Xangsane. At the point where the sound was strongest there was a disquieting feeling. Everything was quiet except for that sound. It was most disconcerting. [...]