The Man Who Cried Wolf?

A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit Cebu this afternoon. I was sound asleep when my mother woke me up terrified about the ongoing shuddering of the earth's crust. Half awake, I managed to stand up and a bit terrified myself of whats happening. We found ourselves hugging and standing right to each other that very moment at the door instead of running outside the house for precaution of possible falling debris. We stood there barely moving until the earthquake stopped. I would have grabbed her and ran out of the house if only I were in a sound mind, but I was  guilty of paranoia myself which I evidently got from her. Soon enough,  my brother arrived since they were sent home from school, then my boyfriend, and then my father came home as well. The next thing we know, we found ourselves watching a whole lot of panic stricken people running on the streets as if trying to get away from something. It pretty looked like a scene from some movie like "2012". Then we heard people saying that there is a tsunami on its way and that the water level in the South Road Project has risen above sea level. People were shouting, and some were already carrying their belongings trying to move out to some higher grounds. Seeing this, my mother went paranoid again. She was really afraid and insisted that we should also leave. However, my father thinks otherwise. He decided to go to SRP himself to find out if any of this was true. Thank god, he got home safe with a positive news that it was nothing and that it was in fact low tide. The experts then confirmed that a tsunami would not be possible and there is nothing to worry about. Some people just spread false alarms out of their idiosyncrasies and scare the hell out of everybody. My mother calmed down but there was still one member of the household who wasn't home yet -- my sister! She stayed at TGU tower since it was the highest place she could be with that tsunami scare and was worried because a whole lot of different stories has reached her. She called a few minutes later after the network clogs has cleared, telling us to evacuate our home because the streets are flooded which apparently brought us to a bunch of laughter. Yes, we got scared but after everything that happened, we just have to laugh about it and thank the lord for keeping us safe and that after all, it was not real.