Itzi: That Day, I was in my school. It was during my last class “ Public Health” and the class was in the 3th floor of the first building.
I was with my team and We were working when the ground started to move. I did not feel it but my friends told me: “ It is an Earthquake!” and all the group started to went out to the classroom. When I went out, I felt the moving of the building and It was when the alarm started to sound. All the group were went down and when We arrived to the second floor, I cannot continue. I thought: “ Ok, people is frightened, people is obstruct the stairs and You can not go out. You have to stay here and You have to wait.” And that moment was horrible because I really thought that I was to stay there. But don’t pass it; a friend took me of my arm and both went down for the stairs. We couldn’t walk. When We were in a safe place, I saw the chaos: partners were crying, the doctors were alarming, patients were scared and some people fainted. I tried to call my mom but the communications were dead for a long time. We waited for 10 minutes to recovered our backpacks. After, I could call my mom and my boyfriend. I was very scared, I was listening the news about the mess, the tragedy and I felt terrible.
The subway was crowded and the traffic was distressing. One of the things that I can remember was the solidarity: I saw people helping to the old people, I saw drivers helping people to go back home, I saw boys and girls helping with food, I saw my country, my true country.
When I arrived my home, I hug my mother and I knew that some people is luckier than others and that Your life is not a sad history because You are alive.
José Luis:
I was in my school, in a meeting inside a four floors building. We were in the first floor when a girl said “The floor is moving”, the next thing we saw was how some walls start to move and some things like pencils, started to fell. We tried to go out walking but the students of the upper floors and the teachers started to shout “Run for your lives!!!”, some people pushed me in order to went out quickly and finally I could went out. We went to the parking looking for a safe place but some trees started to move very hard and we couldn’t find a true safe place. Fortunately, we had luck and we could alive.
When the ground was quiet I tried to call my family and my girlfriend but I couldn´t because all the people were doing the same thing. I remembered that my girlfriend told me that she would be at library and I went there. I could find her and after that a teacher start to shout that class were suspended but the transport was a mess and because of that we couldn’t came back home quickly. We had to walk like 2 hours to find a bus and we were walking we could saw all the damage that the earthquake causes. It was terrible, lots of ambulances and patrols passed quickly and in that moment we realized that probably some people could die.
Finally, we could called to our families and arrived to our houses but that was an experience that nobody want to repeat I think. Many people lost their home and relatives in that earthquake and that’s the reason why we have to continue help because maybe the earthquake has gone but the damage that it causes it’s going to be hard to repair.
Hi! when this earthquake happened I was in Tlaxcala, in a classroom at street level so I didn't feel a lot but reading your thoughts I remember that I was in the same Faculty, Medicine in CU but at the 5th floor, in anatomy lab when another earthquake hit, it wasn't as strong and long as this one, but probably was the first on my own without my family and the thing that I remember the most is that our teacher stood in front of the door and didn't let us leave, maybe was the right call because in a 5th floor with no emergency exit and basically three floors of ramped footbridge was not very smart to try to escape. I'm glad that your loved ones are OK and thank you to share your experiences with us.
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