Yesterday was really a ‘big’ day for me because my hosting was down and I couldn’t do anything with my blogs. And then the worse thing happened, all of a sudden I heard noises all around my house, the floor was trembling – I could feel as if something was moving down there – and the walls were shaking heavily followed by collapsing objects to the floor. It took me a few seconds to realize that we were facing a powerful earthquake. I quickly grabbed my youngest son and shouted to my wife and our eldest son to run outside as soon as possible. When we reached there we found some of our neighbors – all women – standing and trembling in panic look. My wife was cooking when the earthquake rattled our neighborhood so I had to sneak inside the house to turn the stove off once the earthquake intensity decreased.
After leaving the kitchen I decided to save some of our valuable items. I could only think to save my laptop because all of my works were there. My wife followed me and she collected our cell phones, documents and wallets and put them in my car (you see, a man need a woman to take care of the financial matter even in the worst situation like this 
) while I was thinking to secure my electric guitar and amplifier …….
And then the earthquake struck again – of course before I managed to grab my electric guitar. I quickly ran to my car, drove it to a square and parked there waiting for the earthquake to stop. What a great experience!
Local tsunami warnings were issued for coastal areas within several hundred kilometres of the quake’s epicentre soon after it struck, but were withdrawn about half an hour later.
picture courtesy of http://akudansekitar.blogspot.com
After the earthquake’s gone we checked our house and quite surprisingly we didn’t find any major damages or cracks at all. Thanks God our house survived a 7.3 magnitude earthquake!
A lesson learn from this incident is that I should have an Emergency Response Plan in the house. I used to practice this a lot when I was in the oilfield but I failed to bring it home. Lucky me nothing bad happened.
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Rudiawan,
Oh! My gosh! How graphic is that picture!
I am glad you, your family and your home are ok, but sad for those who experienced bad results. It certainly overshadowed your hosting issue.
I can tell you that anything that John Thornhill produces is excellent. I have been in his Mastery Coaching and it is brilliant. He recommended Alex Jeffrey’s Coaching to our Coaching class and I am so glad he did.
I found your postings to be most informative.
I picked up some pearls of wisdom and you have given me food for thought on some areas.
Cheers,
Carol Harridge
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