September 5, 2012

 It took a second or two before we said, “Its an Earthquake!”

We were in the midst of  watching a battle scene in “The Empire Strikes Back” when it hit.

It was a long slow quake.

It seemed to go on for quite a bit of time – for an earthquake.

No sudden jolts or jerks.  A long slow swaying motion.

No harm done. Nothing even knocked over.

Our electricity went out a minute later.

It came back on about 3 hours later.   We didn’t miss not having it.

In fact, we were watching the movie on my laptop when it hit.  Luckily it was fully downloaded.  So we finished up the movie even though there was no electricity.

It was only when I was able to go back on-line and see all the emails from my family that I learned what happened.

They wanted to know if we were okay after the 7.5 earthquake in Costa Rica.

Yes, thankfully, we were.

It looks like Costa Rica survived the earthquake pretty well too.   Only one death, and that from a heart attack.

For those of you who don’t know, the epicenter was about 38 miles from the town of Liberia.

Liberia is in the northwest part of Costa Rica.

Keep safe.

Betsy and Reyn