They always say be careful what you wish for, there I was complaining about being bored when the Lord sent a lil Earthquake to shake me up!!! As far as I have heard, today’s Earthquake which occurred at around 3:00pm local time, lasted for approximately 15 seconds which seemed like forever, and initial reports puts it as 7.3, this is still to be confirmed.
I tell you, my sixth sense kicked in, because as soon as the slightest tremor started and I jumped off my chair, grabbed my keys which are always nearby and headed for the doorway, where I stood and looked at the mirrors in my porch shaking. Thinking I had to be going crazy and it was my heart thumping against my chest that was causing me to imagine the mirrors were shaking, any doubt was soon put to rest as the walls started swaying, everything rattling accompanied by that low rumbling recognisable by anyone who has ever experienced an earthquake before!!
Then, it did not stop but just got gentler until eventually everything went still. That was the longest 15 seconds ever! So the aftermath is that all my cupboard doors came open, but nothing fell thank God. And everyone is safe and sound. I have heard that it was felt throughout the islands, as far as Antigua. I pray that everyone is safe and that we do not get any aftershocks or further earthquakes for the day as my heart cannot take it! I rather be BORED!
I tell you, my sixth sense kicked in, because as soon as the slightest tremor started and I jumped off my chair, grabbed my keys which are always nearby and headed for the doorway, where I stood and looked at the mirrors in my porch shaking. Thinking I had to be going crazy and it was my heart thumping against my chest that was causing me to imagine the mirrors were shaking, any doubt was soon put to rest as the walls started swaying, everything rattling accompanied by that low rumbling recognisable by anyone who has ever experienced an earthquake before!!
Then, it did not stop but just got gentler until eventually everything went still. That was the longest 15 seconds ever! So the aftermath is that all my cupboard doors came open, but nothing fell thank God. And everyone is safe and sound. I have heard that it was felt throughout the islands, as far as Antigua. I pray that everyone is safe and that we do not get any aftershocks or further earthquakes for the day as my heart cannot take it! I rather be BORED!
3 comments:
Glad everyone is safe - and to think here I am complaining about the snow.....
but I heard a lady jumped out of a wondow in shock?/? not in trini though - forget what island...
it couda been worse saucy. that earthquake cud have happened on carnival monday and tuesday!!! wat a ting!
i heard it was felt from miami to guyana. in st.croix some prople said they felt it at school, but i didn't cause at that time i was walking.
i heard a wall fell on a girl in guadeloupe. God rest her soul.
SLU got quite of a shake as well. they were sum power outages, jammed phone lines cause ppl trying to call, and several landslides. 1 happened not to far from where i usually stayed, and unfortuately the slide blocked the farmers from their work.
just praise lord it was an earthquake and not a tsunami that take us deh.
Well we in Bdos never experienced anything like that before, therefore the country was in an uproar, it wasn't that bad though in retrospect.
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