"Am I crazy or was there just an earthquake?"
So read the text I received from my roommate, working upstairs in a building next door to mine. I hadn't felt a thing, but apparently we had: 6.8 on the Richter Scale, although many hundreds of miles away from Nairobi on the border of Tanzania and the DRC. Even though we live right beside the Great Rift Valley, which apparently stretches from Mozambique through the Middle East and up into Turkey, this area is not a region that is familiar with earthquakes.
Watching news reports that night made that quite apparent, as I felt like I knew more about earthquakes than the newscasters. Many Kenyans felt the quake in the high-rise building of downtown, some structures even showing cracks from the shock. The news reported the government response as 'lacking.' Officially, the government denied that there had even been a quake. Such is Kenyan life.
2 comments:
Saw the earthquake on the news today, wondered if you were in it.Sounds like another Africian adventure.
Mama Pres
hmm, someone needs to tell The Man (as in, the Kenya Man) that Denial isn't just the name of a river...
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