earthquake belt

The recent earthquake in Port-Au-Prince undeniably shook the world. Its aftershocks reached shores that left the people gaping and trembling with shock while watching the news, staring at dead bodies being pulled from debris and thrown to the mass graves. Unthinkable.

We atcs have our shares of "shakes, rattle and roll" during earthquakes specially when we are on duty.

Shakes are very evident with the sloshing of the mineral water and swinging of the lightguns (signal) hanging on the ceiling of the cab. What we usually do during these shakes? We just grab our seats and remain as calm as we should be. Can't leave the cab co'z we might get stuck inside the elevator. And with the winding stairs from the eleventh floor to the ground, the risk is way tooo high. We've been planning to stash an ax so we could just break the cab glass in case of emergency..

 

Rattle?hmmm... we feel this too... but really, just quite temporarily. We are in a place where we have no choice but....wait for what will ensue.

Roll.The last time the control tower was "shaken" our thursday boys were on duty. There were shakes... they were (i hope not) rattled.. and they rolled (actually, roared) with laughters when they looked down and saw that all the CAAP personnel were already outside  the building looking up to them as if waiting for something to happen.

Earthquakes? Our boys  just laughed it off...Never scared of tremors.

Pero white lady? I'll save the details on the next relevant entry.