The earthquake damaged homes in Monkey River, cracked streets in Placencia,
and collapsed Independence Village’s water reservoir. In Belize City it
caused an alarm as residents were shook out of their sleep in panic. And probably
no one was in a panic than Catherine Flowers. Her new brand house shook, rattled,
and at times she said thought it was about to roll.
Catherine Flowers, Shaken
“I started feeling my house shaking like that and so my husband jumped
up and he turned over the switch because if any light or so. So everybody started
running out of their beds. My grandson run and he started to scream and then he run out and everything was coming down back and forth. It is so funny because
the things were flying from one side and when it flew back so like somebody
just stoned it. So my grandson just run out and he tried to hold down the TV
and I told him to move and a dog flew over his head and he had to duck and we
has drag him from there because he couldn’t move. I got speechless because
it was getting worse and worse. When it came harder, we heard a popping sound
out here and water was spraying from all sides, the pipes burst. So until this
morning when we came down, we saw the whole thing cracked up. But half of my
things got broken up inside.
This is my brand new house, as my neighbour who called in said this is
a brand new house from the Mennonites and if this house cannot even stand that
how can it withstand hurricane. Think about it. I don’t think I can stay
in here if a hurricane is coming because I get this experience like this and
it’s got me shaking.”
Flowers has only lived in the house for a year.
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