Earthquake

I am writing this entry sitting at the beauty salon getting my hair cut and dyed, so bare with my poor writing please!

Yesterday I went to the movies with my husband (Black Panther!!!), it was a good day… until we came back home. We hadn’t been 30 minutes at home when a 7 degree Earthquake hit my country…. just after 5 short months of the one that destroyed Mexico City  back in September.

On September 19th 2017 Mexico City was hit with a 7 degree earthquake that destroyed our city. I was driving, hadn’t gone to work because I was doing some crap at the bank, I was listening to the radio because my phone and my husbands phone had no battery left. The alarm went off (we have so many earthquakes that there’s an alarm that goes off throughout the city and in tv and radio). I didn’t know what to think. I knew there was a drill going on at some point that day because ironically enough it was the anniversary of the OTHER earthquake that destroyed our city back in 1985.

I asked my husband “wasn’t the drill earlier?” He shrugged, in that moment the wall right behind our car began crumbling and a rock fell next to our car. I felt the car shaking

“keep driving, stay right in the middle of the street” my husband said. I was crying. My office, the building where my whole family works is in one of the most dangerous places to be during an earthquake. Back in ’85 it was where most of the buildings disappeared.

Eventually I reached my entire family and went to pick my kids from school early. There was no school for almost 3 weeks. A lot of people is still homeless and a lot of children with no school. I’m lucky. I was just scared out of my mind.

Yesterday as I felt the earthquake I couldn’t help but panic a little on the inside. Me and my husband grabbed the kids and ran outside. We did what every Mexican does during an earthquake: panic and run outside.

I slept in clothes, arranged a line of jackets, shoes and personal documents for everyone right next To the door. Just in case an earthquake hit in the middle of the night.

Yesterday was was a good day until the earthquake hit. But then it was a lucky day, we are alive, our city is safe for now and we can go on to dye our hair and get a hair cut.

That’s all for now!

See you around, everybody!