One of the worst experiences of my life happened when I was nine years old. In 1999, at around 1:20pm, there was a terrible earthquake in Armenia, Colombia. I had just finished eating and I was about to take a nap when I started hearing explosions and the house started to shake. My father grabbed me and we tried to get out of the house as fast as we could with my mom. When we got outside everything was still shaking and houses were falling all around us. I remember my father leaving with my mom and getting into his car to drive to my grandparents house. When he got there he saw his brothers outside and that my grandfather was still in the house and that the water tank had fallen on him. My grandfather died in that earthquake along with so many people from my town and the towns close by. The aftershocks lasted throughout the night until the morning and for a few days. For a week we lived outside and in cars while we could get our homes ready to actually live in them. We were lucky that our houses were not that badly damaged but so many people lost everything in the earthquake. I remember leaving for two weeks to live with my aunt in Bogota while my parents stayed with our house. When I came back so much of my town was still like it had just happened. Being so young and experiencing something so tragic was very difficult. Till this day I remember it all like it was just yesterday.
Nena, I remember that earthquake, it was so terrible; even in my city we could feel it very hard and we had damages in our houses or buildings too. I think it has been one of the most remainded lately. I really sorry about your granpa and all the situation.
ReplyDeleteHey Keyla, I remember that day... It was so terrible for every colombian. I remember the news in the TV and everybody was very sad to lose their relatives, houses... Sorry for you gran father Key !!!
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ReplyDeleteThat most have been such a terrible day. i am sorry that you had to go through this day! I was involved in an earthquake in LA once when I was 12 years old. It was just a tiny one but it was shocking!
Wow , you are lucky. I had same kind but it's not dangerous and serious. I felt it a little in my country. I think my country is good location because we don't have snow then we don't have snow storm, tornado or else but we just had a big flooding. It never had happened before. Also, I few year ago we had tsunami in the sounth. That's horrible.
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