We’ve survived our 2nd earthquake in Indonesia

This afternoon, while Billy and I were at work, a decent-sized earthquake hit Java.  I was in the teacher’s room, and I thought someone was kicking my chair.  I suspected it was my friend and co-worker Dave, and he thought the same thing about me.  We turned around in our chairs and looked at each other, then it registered that we were too far apart to kick each others’ chairs.  “Earthquake.”  Everyone evacuated the teachers’ room and classrooms, and stood in the parking lot until the rolling subsided.  It felt like we were on a ship, moving along on gently rolling waves.  There wasn’t any damage at school, and we went back to work.

Billy and I both worked until 9 tonight, and met at home right after work to check the house for damage.  Our house already had a few small cracks in the walls, and some of them are now a little wider, but still nothing serious.  I’m thankful our house is okay, and all our friends are fine…  though some of their houses did get damaged. 

We’re planning to go to our favorite beach, Batu Karas, in a couple weeks, and the cities we go through on the way there were hit harder than Bandung.  Luckily the tsunami warnings have been canceled, and it seems the beach is okay.

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