‘itwas saturday morning @aroung 6am. i was @ my friend’s in Yogyakarta Jl. Kaliurang km 12. suddenly i heard a loud bang and the ground was shaking very hard, me and my friend rushed out to expect that it was mount merapi that made the loud noise and the strong earthquake. and there it was, the hot grey cloud emerges in large mass drifting towards the south.. then so we think, it WAS mount merapi who did that.
soon, we heard news that the catastrophe is even bigger in the southern of yogyakarta. then we realized that it wasnt mount merapi afterall. it was a tectonic earthquake from the southern ocean. suddenly the time runs very-very slow as we quickly tried to ring anyone nearby: our family, relatives, and friends.. but the communications we’re stalled, everyone was using the phone line.
@6.30
i went to the garage, having my bike ready to go, in case there’s another hit coming and we have to evacuate. my friend then prepared his car too. i rushed to my auntie’s house nearby, but they’ve gone already, they went east to klaten. one of their neighbors were wounded. so i went back to my friend’s house and tried to reach my parents. they are moving to jogja to evacuate my grandma @kusumanegara, they said her house is breaking down. my mother told me to meet them there.
@7.00
i packed my things and go straight down to jogja. @jl kaliurang km 9, i saw motorbikes with thier lights on, panicking, and shouting “there’s water coming.. it’s a tsunami!”
and believe it or not, it was actually a sea of motorbikes instead of real water. i pulled over, cause there’s no way i continue moving, the road was full of traffic going north. i took my cellphone, and tried to contact my parents, see how they’re doing, cause my grandma’s house is in the south of yogyakarta. if it really is a tsunami, then they’re drowning now..
but then my mom sms me, saying that i should stay @northern side of yogyakarta, cause there’s flood coming.
but i still dont get it, how could the water reach this very high ground (it was 115++ meters above sea level)..
so i joined the sea of motorbikes up north, back @my friend’s house.
@7.30
it was really chaotic, cause the information about what happened down there is uncertain. the TV’s havent reported anything, in fact there’s only two channels running well, the others might have been down by the earthquake. so we heard from the radio that the tsunami was just a fake issue, there’s no such thing.
@10.15
another earthquake hit, it was quite shocking, we went outside the house immediately. there’s still no news about my parent’s whereabouts, so i decided to go back south, to see how things are really happening, and whether those sea of motorbikes are still around.
@11.00
i finally reach klaten, and along the way i saw roads breaking, houses destroyed, and waves of evacuating people is at a massive level. i even raced some of the ambulance heading to hospitals in klaten ^_^
@12.30
i was @ the hospital, with my father (he’s a doctor). there were hundreds of people there, wounded, crying for thier family loss. and.. the rest is as seen on TV..
alhamduliilah, my family is in good, healthy condition, and we’re perfectly calm to have the situation under control. our properties were not severely damaged either. even my cat is still around ^_^
tx for friends and relatives who cares, i know that it was hard to reach us @home or @our cell, but ur attention is an honor to our family.
starting saturday @6.02am - today @9.00pm:
nanik-inda-tante wib-wuri-lia pusmeong-narto-patrick-bang rio-tita-mas ari-poetri-rina-Ulee-arco-mas wili-wenny-rambo-k ivan-mbak rury-sronto-heswoy-VK-eny-dino-guswan-lica-adhe
thanks guys..
semoga para korban diberikan kekuatan dan ketabahan hati untuk menghadapi cobaan ini, amien.
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