Tremors

Isn't Kenya just the the place to be? So there were tremors and all and sudry were eager to air their tremor experiences. A chick on telly was so shaken (pardon the pun) that she could barely speak and claimed to have been traumatized. I think it's the first time ever in Kenya's history that the government was not blamed for the goings on ... oh then again, that's not true. There were calls for the Government to pull up it's socks in disaster preparedness.

Then the funniest part, (though I'm sure that those who suffered would not consider it funny) was when on the night of 16.07.2007, a text message warning of a huge impending earthquake made the rounds. People were woken up from their houses by watchmen and told to move out of their homes for their own safety. Family and friends called each other and warned of the impedeing danger. People moved in their vehicles covered in blankets to petrol stations where they sought safety (why anyone would consider a petrol station safe is beyond me). They left at 3:00 am and got tired of waiting for disaster at about 6:00 am. The Government Spokesman (who no one likes) got all worked up since the rumour said that the source of the information was the American Embassy. He was hurt that Kenyans are so willing to beleive a mzungu because of their mzungu status. In their defence I think it's cause the US had said (conveniently after the fact) that it had known that The Tsunami (the big one) would occur.

So there was a tremor today, tommorrow, the day after, and soon it became routine to the point of being boring. Those ones of 'Oh, it's 5:30, kwani leo hakuna tremor' or 'You felt that tremor?' 'Yeah.' end of story. But you have to be entertained in a country where the president's response to a tremor is 'Mtu ameskia nini? Ni kama kunateleza? Msijaliiiiiii. Mnajua hivyo ndio dunia iko siku hizi'!!