Evacuate Immediately, and Grab the Valuables on Your Way Out

Here's another update about our little Dutch hurricane, which has apparently is now named "Cyril" (don't ask us how to pronounce that)... Although John wasn't in the EY office today, he got regular email updates about the various states of peril its occupants were in as the day progressed. It all started late in the morning when the first email came through to inform everybody that the police department had "taken control" of the EY parking garage and nobody was permitted to enter the area under any circumstances. Later, after windows began blowing out of cars, five members of the fire department came to the scene and remained on standby for the afternoon.

We should stop here to explain that a new 20-story EY office building is currently being constructed next door to the current one, and before today they were almost finished putting in the windows. Depending on who you ask in the office, some, most, or all of the windows have now blown out or are broken. Considering the hazardous effects of little bits of glass flying at 60+ miles an hour, they decided to lock down the office. This didn't last long, because shortly thereafter, pieces of the old building also started falling down. The last email that came through says that the fire department ordered the building to be evacuated, presumably because the structural integrity of the building was in question. We hope the buildilng is still standing in the morning.