Well the topic of this was supposed to be miracles do happen because Evan and I actually learned to compromise today :). Somehow I think the tsunami warning trumps that. Yes I know everybody is probably saying, crazy IBMer doing his blog as a potential tsunami is approaching. Have no fear, if a wave develops it is an hour or so away.
Prior to today the going theory has been that Puerto Montt is relatively safe because it is in a protected bay. Well at least that was the theory until I spoke to Masahiro at little while ago. Coming from Japan, he is fairly tsunami savvy. Things are a little eery here. Some of the team members are getting tsunami warnings on their cell phones. The police are driving down the road announcing something. The only word I understand is tsunami. I've also gotten an email from SantiagoUSA about the warning.
We just had a team meeting with Aldo and Marcia. Aldo is the primary contact for 2 of our sub-teams. They assured us that there are several islands that are between Puerto Montt and any wave. There is little chance of any real danger. My room is lower than the official safety threshold. In theory I am supposed to move up to the 8th floor. I might do so as the estimated 1st wave time approaches.
Now back onto the work topic. We worked on our presentations the last two days. Today we've finished creating our detailed presentation. We present it tomorrow afternoon. We give an education session Thursday morning. We give our final presentation on Friday. We are more or less done with creating all the presentation materials. There is another presentation that we need to deliver as part of our final package. That has been created as well. There is still some additional work that we need to do to document our meeting minutes, but we are definitely in the home stretch now.
Today I noticed that some of the mountains by Puerto Montt now have snow on them. They look very nice. It's strange that in Owego we are moving from winter to spring and here they are moving from summer to fall. I'm not going to be all messed up when I get back home.
Prior to today the going theory has been that Puerto Montt is relatively safe because it is in a protected bay. Well at least that was the theory until I spoke to Masahiro at little while ago. Coming from Japan, he is fairly tsunami savvy. Things are a little eery here. Some of the team members are getting tsunami warnings on their cell phones. The police are driving down the road announcing something. The only word I understand is tsunami. I've also gotten an email from SantiagoUSA about the warning.
We just had a team meeting with Aldo and Marcia. Aldo is the primary contact for 2 of our sub-teams. They assured us that there are several islands that are between Puerto Montt and any wave. There is little chance of any real danger. My room is lower than the official safety threshold. In theory I am supposed to move up to the 8th floor. I might do so as the estimated 1st wave time approaches.
Now back onto the work topic. We worked on our presentations the last two days. Today we've finished creating our detailed presentation. We present it tomorrow afternoon. We give an education session Thursday morning. We give our final presentation on Friday. We are more or less done with creating all the presentation materials. There is another presentation that we need to deliver as part of our final package. That has been created as well. There is still some additional work that we need to do to document our meeting minutes, but we are definitely in the home stretch now.
Today I noticed that some of the mountains by Puerto Montt now have snow on them. They look very nice. It's strange that in Owego we are moving from winter to spring and here they are moving from summer to fall. I'm not going to be all messed up when I get back home.
Oh, by the way. Those are not tsunami waves. The waves just happened to be rough today so I took some pictures of them. Well. time to wander up to the 8th floor. Just about 10 minutes from the predicted arrival time if I am reading the email I received correctly.
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