My First EarthQuake

Dazed and still half asleep, I wake up to the walls of my room shaking and quaking. I wonder what in the world is happening. Soon I realized that this small island that I'm on is actually have AN EARTHQUAKE! Its surprising that an earthquake would actually happen here in the Hawaiian Islands, but in all actuality, there recently was a small earthquake that happened a couple of months ago, so its not totally surprising to have another one.

This one happened to be a much bigger wake-up for the local people here. The quake showed up on the Richter scale of over 6.0. That is pretty strong in my case since I have never been through an earthquake before. That Sunday, I thought I was gonna starve because I didn't really have any food to eat. All the places to get food were pretty much closed. All I had left at home was a bit of some crackers and some fruits.

I went to church that morning and we had service without any lights and A/C. I found it ingenious that P. Ray turned a car battery into a power source, but after a while the wires couldn't handle it. It was a change of pace to have service with no power, but we got through it. It didn't hinder our worship for our Lord.

In everything, I thank God that there was not too much damage to the islands and that not many people got injured. The worst of it was just that the electricity for the whole state went down. Soon and just in time, the power went back up right when the sun was going down and it was beginning to get dark. It just goes to show the dependency of us when it comes to how much we need electricity. But, that's how life is.