Andie, who has skilled minor quakes over the three years he has lived in Taiwan, defined: “What you are alleged to do is to attend at a spot the place nothing’s going to fall in your head.
“I selected the archway between my front room and kitchen as a result of the wall there may be extra strong. And if the home collapsed, I might be close to my kitchen the place there’s meals and water.”
As soon as the primary quake was over, Andie grabbed his telephone and pockets earlier than heading downstairs to contact his spouse and youngsters.
Whereas his youngsters’s trainer confirmed the children have been tremendous and gathered on the subject, he couldn’t contact his spouse as she had left her telephone at dwelling. So he went again to his dwelling to attend for her.
He shared that it was solely after he noticed his neighbour wanting pale that he realised how extreme the earthquake was.
“You see, Singaporeans do not know,” he chuckled. “It is the identical for me, I did not understand how dangerous the scenario was. In my thoughts, I believed, ‘Okay, simply keep protected first’.”
“If even the Taiwanese are freaking out, you understand this isn’t regular,” he stated.
As for the damages to his dwelling, he shared he had misplaced many crystals on his Asian Tv Awards trophy, and that Kate’s Star Awards trophy was chipped. However the “most heartbreaking” injury was to his iMac as its display was “utterly smashed”.