I'm not suprised that the owners of your office building were camping out. When we had this freak hurricane like thing (now know as the Summer Storm of 2003, complete with t shirts), a lot of busioness owners whose alarms were now useless camped out in thier stores with guns because thier was some looting. the news also said that gun sales went up. Glad you had someplace to go .

The first thing I ( and probable many people) was it was some sort of terrorist attack. The second thing I thought was that that new virus has somehow infiltrated the powere system.Which if that was true , I can imagine there is a lynch mob calling for the virus creators blood.(if there isn't one already)