7.8: From my Ground
“Why the hell is the helicopter flying so near to the house? Does it want to blow the house off or what?” When the floor started shaking all of a sudden, this is what I thought. My house is really close to the Pokhara airport so heli/s scaring the soul out of us is not very unfamiliar. I was taking a shower. When the shaking didn't stop for quite a time, I started panicking. I totally didn’t know what to do…come out of the bathroom just like that or wait for it to stop. I chose the former. I came running out of the bath, barefooted, to the ground decked in a bath robe, and soap bubbles running into my cheeks. The ground underneath me was terribly trembling and the tall building in front of where I lived was swaying in the rhythm of the quake, windows clapping and people running for their lives. Yes, it was an earthquake…like no one had ever seen before. I looked towards my house. It was shuddering with fear, just like me…but it was not falling. I closed my eyes, a...