Tsunami = panic!

We were woken by banging on our back door at 5-30 this morning by a
neighbour (remember we are right on the coast a stones throw from the beach)
My neighbour yelled get out to higher ground there has been an earthquake
in Tonga a Tsunami is on the way. It just showed me how ill prepared we were
as I ran around, throwing on clothes, remarked to DH doesn't matter if I am
not colour co-ordinated! no time to put a bra on, get the cats, get the
cats, DH said we might have to forget the cats!! no way I am NOT leaving
without the cats. Now there is a scramble for the cat cages, throw in the
cats, get them into the car, hurry , hurry. After what seemed like hours,
but was in fact only minutes, the neighbour came back and said turn on your
radio the alert has been down graded but there will be further news at 6am,
so we sit waiting with cats still in the car ready to go, DH made a coffee,
handed me mine, I was so stressed and shaking like a leaf I dropped my HOT
coffee down my front. An hour later we were given the all clear, put cats
back in cage, make mental note to get more organized "just" in case this
ever happens again.

Purrs for jangled nerves would be appreciated.

Sam...

Nerve "un-jangling" purrs on the way. Happy to hear the alarm was false.

Adrian A...

Considering the power of the quake it's remarkable how little damage was
done, even in Tonga close to the epicentre. Lots of purrs for your jangled
nerves, I'm so glad that's all that was jangled.

Monique Y. Mudama...

Ugh, that's awful!

On the plus side, hopefully this will get you motivated to establish a
rescue plan before something like this comes up again.

HRFLTiger...

Purrs for jangled nerves en-route!

Helen M