Hi all, I am fine. Thank you to those of you who emailed, called or thought about me. NPR has done a wonderful job capturing the spirit of this disaster. These are some sound bytes that probably many of you have already heard, but some may not have. I don't have words for my feelings.
The quake hits as Melissa records a pastor's story. The quake was felt in Hangzhou, but on the 15th floor of an office building I was unaware as those around me evacuated:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90396578
Melissa visits scene of a collapsed middle school
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90395454
A week later (yesterday) a three-day mourning period started. I was told about the mourning period but I was shocked to my core to experience the three minutes of silence (marked by air-raid sirens) while I was checking out at the supermarket. For three minutes the impossible happened, the whole nation of 1.6 billion stood stalk still. The hair on my arm still prickles when i think about those three minutes. Nearby the checkout a t.v. continued to play dreadful footage of children being pulled from wreckage. This is a taste of it:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90603015
And finally, fear still abounds as everyone waits, here to hear about loved ones and there to see what the next aftershock will do.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90603021
No word from Stone Gate Village yet, an update to hopefully come soon.
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Pls help me find out:
*Why the newer school buildings collapsed worse than the much older private structures in the same area? Kickbacks again?!
*Why most of PRC govt. officials' kids studying abroad full-time & no jobs drive the most expensive European cars to schools?
Where the money came from?
Friend of Chinese commoners.
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