Tsunami again

For the second time within 6 months Ive found myself in Apia on a short trip, only to be caught out by a huge tsunami warning/drill/debarkle.

It all started with several phonecalls from mums worker yelling "TSUNAMI" the call was at 3am so I heard the phone rining and thought it would be one of those Chinese weirdo salespeople calling (somehow our number is popular in china) but no, about 2 mins after someone in the house answered, i could hear traffic, loads of traffic, and people talking and yelling, and then followed by bells and sirens. Ok, time to wake up, something serious going on.My sis Tash explained - earthquake in Chile, Tsunami heading our way, I cracked up cause she was telling me how we were in its direct path being in Apia cause the wave would obviously come from the North west???? uhm, Chile or CHina Tash?? anyways, after 2 secs of arguing (because we are both real stubborn and think we are smarter then each other) the Blackberry saves me as I am able to show her exactly were Chile was!!lol!
Anyways, the warning was for 9am , we did try for half a minute to go back to sleep and evacuate at 6, but the phonecalls were non stop, Nana, aunty, mum (who had gone to the airport to take my bro due to fly out to NZ at 5am) none would let us go back to sleep so off we went, apparently to 'beat the traffic'
what went through my mind this morning -
1) there is something exciting about natural disasters, not that I enjoy THEM but i enjoy the thought of heading off somewhere to camp with the whole extended aiga and drink hot coffee and eat pancakes and chat and talk and worry together.Something about this gathering is calming and reassuring that all will be ok. Often we joke that if worst came to worst, we have a doctor a nurse a midwife a carpenter a baker a fisherman, a farmer, a cook, in amongst us, so we would kinda be self sufficient!
2) as we drove up to Aleisa,There were so many people on the road, walking, in buses, on the backs of trucks, everyone seemed relaxed and sensible, Thank god circumstances allow us to be this way, and not running for our lives with panic...
3) I couldnt stop thinking about how those who were already affected by sept 2009 were handling this, would they be going "sh*t, not again, give us a break" because I can not see how they wouldnt be doing that very thing...thank god this was not another repeat of last years events. I was wondering though if anyone would think twice about businesses in those susceptible areas??kind of a hard one aye
4) I missed my husband and home and wished we (me and bubba) were there with him, or he with us
Thank goodness for the last time that the events of the day panned out to be less then was expected.Samoa does need a break so I am glad things turned out the way they did:)