Here's the play-by-play: Every day after school, Joseph and Grace Wu came home from school with us til their mom came and picked them up. One stormy afternoon around 4:30, Jonathan, Jenny, Joseph and Grace were playing contentedly when we heard a loud noise that sounded like a train was heading straight for our duplex.
This noise was so startling that I hurried the kids downstairs into a closet where we closed the door and just waited until the noise stopped. When the noise stopped, I cautiously looked out to be sure everything was OK. The kids followed closely. What we saw was pretty shocking. Out the back patio doors we saw the garages next door at a scary angle, ready to fall down. There was debris everywhere. All our patio furniture was scattered for blocks around us.
The most impressive thing was the large tree outside our bedroom had fallen right on the roof! The roof was broken, but if it had been any worse, our bedroom would have been gone too. What we knew right away was that God had spared us each, remarkable. One of the houses across the street was leveled. We gave thanks to Him for sparing lives. And we took pictures. Isaac also drew his version of what happened to us.
Soon afterward, Bill came home from work, not knowing what had happened. He says, "it was late dusk in the day when I came back. As I entered the neighborhood, something seemed odd but I couldn't put my finger on it. Then I realized, the power had gone off. A little further in and I saw the damage."
Well, with electricity out, we took out our camp stove and invited neighbors over while we cooked up dinner with food from all our fridges, now starting to defrost. This was one way to meet neighbors we never thought of! No one we knew was killed or seriously injured. Like Bill, many were still on their way home from work. So again, we saw God's hand of protection and gave thanks.
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