John Schidlovsky's Blogs
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After 33 Years Away, a Sudden Shaking in Nepal
I had never been in a hotel room that rolled and shook and seemed to spin in a circle. But that’s what my fourth floor room at the Hotel Yak and Yeti in Kathmandu was doing just before noon on the last Saturday in April. I stood helplessly on the hardwood floor. In past years, I had felt small vibrations in minor earthquakes around the world. But this loud and heavy rolling, the pitching, the sense of being on a sea-borne carousel – this was new. As was the length: on and on it went, 80 seconds that felt endless. I stared out the window. Waiting for something to end, either the shaking or, well, yes, it occurred to me, the end of me and hundreds of others in a pile of bricks and concrete. Would that blue and white sign, &ldquo...;
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