September 12. Breakfast and quiet time were ended, bed was made, a couple other small tasks were carried out, and Daddy and I decided to go for a walk. Erovi (one of the elderly men) came just before we left so Daddy could pray for him. I fixed him up a small goody bag to take home. We had been hearing stories about a crack across the ground near the edge of the turn-around place at the top of the airstrip. We also thought about going to Tomas’s house to see what damage had been done there. So off we went. Yes, there was a crack across the top of the airstrip at the south edge. It was barely visible, but could have serious consequences if there is another earthquake. The ground already had many small cracks from all the dry weather. From there we went on to Tomas’s house. Many large cracks, mostly running in a north-south direction. Ground had broken off and fallen close to one side of his house. Other ground was very loose there and looked like it could fall yet. Large rocks he had for steps to a lower area of the property had sunk down several inches into the ground. Going down to an even lower area of the property there was other ground that had broken up and fallen apart. A large rock that had not been visible before had moved up, pushing up the fence that ran along the property and breaking it. Large stones with which he had lined the pathway just above the deep gulley were gone, rolled down into the gulley. There was a little bit of broken cement in one corner of the house. All the houses up there are sitting in a dangerous place. Tomas thought about moving his house and rebuilding in another location. After we talked a while, I was pretty tired, and we came back to the house. I didn’t really work on anything much in the computer today. There was lots of smoke and my eye was hurting quite a bit. This afternoon, Erovi came back and brought us a popo. He wanted to get some yarn. I guess someone must be making him a new bilum. Late this afternoon, Danny brought his phone to be charged. The conversation turned to the earthquake, and that opened up an opportunity to talk to Danny about spiritual things. Ana came this afternoon to work on finishing up her lessons she had missed, and she stayed until a little after dark. Sera and the three children came early this evening and brought some nice tomatoes. September 13. News had been off the air for the past couple days, but was back on this morning. There was news about the earthquake, and from the report of a helicopter pilot who does medivacs, there are seven people confirmed dead (most of them from large rocks falling on them), and they did 80 medivacs for injured people, most of them on Sunday. They said the worst damage was in the Obura-Wonenara area (that’s Owena’s area) - that surprised us. Anna Jean said this morning that there is a big crack in the ground that runs by her house. (writing this the next day — Wednesday) The rest of the day, I didn’t do any work on the computer. My eye was in a great amount of pain and felt very hot. Had a low-grade temperature. I made a patch with some gauze and tape, and that helped the eye not to feel so irritated, but did not decrease the pain. The only thing we have and that I felt I should take was amoxicillin so started on that in the evening. Went to bed at 9:00. I didn’t realize how much a sick eye could make the whole body feel sick.
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