Thursday, January 8, 2009
Earthquake 6.2 !!!
6.2 earthquake at Poas Volcano about 1:13 pm today with 260 aftershocks so far. The epicenter was only about 30-40 miles from us. Grand daughter Lina was here at the time, Chai had been sent home cause he was bad. I got her on the floor and covered her with my body. Wine glasses were falling from our wine-glass rack in the kitchen and there was broken glass everywhere. The water in the aquarium was sloshing all over the floor and everything was rattling and shaking for 20 seconds. Then we felt many aftershocks. Vicki called and told us to get out of the house, that we were in a red alert for more shocks. So we spent time in the street then went into the bedroom and made a safe spot on the floor beside the bed. We didn't have to go there though as the aftershocks were short. The volcano is in yellow alert for erupting! Our son, Steve's, computer fell and we had all kinds of things fall and more cracks in the walls and a big dent where a wine glass hit the wood. There are deaths and two hospitals were evacuated in San Jose. All the bottles on the top shelf in the refrigerator fell, fortunately they were plastic. All the things I had on the baker's rack in the bathroom fell. Pictures are all crooked and the decorative wrought iron rack on the wall above the stove popped a long screw out and it fell to the floor. I don't think we'll know the full extent until tomorrow. Road damage, landslides, bus accidents, it just goes on and on. But we're all OK, thank God!
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