On August 23, 2011 Intellor Group headquarters in Gaithersburg MD experienced the 5.9 magnitude earthquake that was centralized in Mineral VA. Since most of us here at Intellor have only lived on the east coast it came as a bit of a shock. After straightening our pictures and a quick employee poll of the quakes magnitude, we were back to work. Though our nerves were rattled all of our live webinars went on without incident.
Four days later we were once again tested with Hurricane Irene. Falling trees, flooded streets, and power outages plagued the D.C. area but luckily Intellor came out unscathed. The threat of Irene allowed us to test our emergency backup procedures and also gave us a few new ideas on how to improve communication in an emergency scenario. Since our customers events are the most important thing to us we always want to make sure we’re prepared for the worst so their events go off without incident. Hopefully this is the last we hear from mother nature for awhile.