What a Day! The phone rang at 3 am, I woke out of a deep sleep, my first thought was ‘oh, I hope nothing has happen to anyone... it was a recording telling me to evacuate and go to the Events Center...tsunami warning, this is not a drill! As I hung up the warning siren started screaming. Well I threw some decent cloths on, brushed my teeth combed my hair, grabbed my important paper in their large blue plastic envelope, my medications, got the car out and left.

There were many people at the Event Center already, I walked in and the mayor says to me, “Welcome, here we all are and without make up.”‘ a little humor to easy things'. They had turned the BIG TV in the auditorium on covering the tsunami and folks were there with pillows blankets and curling up... I stayed out in the lobby and talked to several folks... some were neighbors pretty near my home.

The tsunami was suppose to hit about seven am so after being there until about 4:30 I decided to go back home and wait until about 6 and then return, that way I would have some time to gather some juice, nuts, granola, apple, bread, vitamins, water and have a small bowl of cereal. In addition, I wanted to rest for a bit but the phone rang soon after I arived and I was told to leave immediately also a fellow, a volunteer working as a neighborhood helper knocked on the door and asked if I was ready to leave... I said yes... I called my friend Linda, who lives right on the beach to see when she was going to come to higher ground, she said she would wait until 6:00 and she was going to go to her office call me and I should come over there. Which I did, about 7 am, we went the get breakfast and then back to the office... at 10:45 am the all clear whistle blew and home I came.... wow I am beat and so was Linda.

I am so pleased nothing happen here in Florence, my sweet little home is fine... I watched the awful pictures of Japan on TV. How sad and horrible, my prayers go out to them all.  

It has been a very hard, sad day for so many, seems like we get a lot of these kind of days lately if any good comes out of such pain and sadness lets hope it brings us closer together in compassion and love.

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