natural disaster

[Raxie]

have you experienced any natural disasters?
right now in new zealand (south island) there was a major earthquake at 4am in the morning. i woke up to this huge shaking and thunderous sound and everything falling off tables. i don't get scared easily but omfg this scared the living bejesus out of me. i was praying to god and the scary thing was the thought that this was how i was going to die if the quake got any stronger. luckily my house was recently built and not that old so it didn't collapse. however, some older houses did collapse and fortunately no one was killed but some are in critical condition. it was a magnitude of 7.1 and to some people, this might not seem as big of a number. it lasted 2 minutes approximately and there have been little minor quakes since then even though 13 hours has passed.
i just hope nothing terrible is going to happen.
yea some of you will be going, 'psh! that's not scary at all.' but trust me. when you wake up and a ****ing earthquake hits you... watch out.
one lesson i learnt - never **** with nature.