\u201cDit voel asof die aarde onder jou gaan ingee. Jy vries, want jy kan niks anders doen nie. Dan sit jy die televisie aan en sien hoe duisende mense \u2019n paar kilometer van jou af sterf. Jou hart breek dan in eenduisend stukkies.\u201d <\/p>\n
So beskryf Misch\u00e9 Viljoen (24) van Worcester die impak wat die aardbewing in Turkye verlede week op haar gehad het.<\/p>\n
Viljoen, \u2019n au pair wat die afgelope twee jaar in Duitsland werk, was sowat 300 km van die episentrum van die verwoestende aardbewing. Teen druktyd was sy en die gesin vir wie sy werk steeds vasgekeer in Gaziantep \u2013 300 km van Sivrice, Turkye. Meer as 30 000 mense is oorlede n\u00e1 die aardbewing in Sivrice en nog duisende vermis. Vlugte en die meeste ander vorms van binnelandse vervoer is vir eers gestaak.<\/p>\n
Op Maandag 6 Februarie is Turkye en dele van Siri\u00eb in puin gelaat nadat \u2019n aardbewing van sowat 7,8 op die Richterskaal verskeie gebiede geteiken het. Intussen het die Verenigde Nasies en talle welsynorganisasies hulle gehaas om plaaslike inwoners by te staan. <\/p>\n
Viljoen is nes talle ander in Turkye gestrand.<\/p>\n
\u201cDaar is tans internasionale vlugte van Istanbul, maar ons is sowat 1 000 km van die hoofstad. Ons bid die tyd om en wil net veilig terugkeer Duitsland toe in hierdie stadium,\u201d s\u00ea Viljoen aan Standard<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Sy en die gesin vir wie sy werk, was met vakansie in Turkye toe die aardbewing tref. Hulle het oornag in die dorp waar hulle nou al meer as \u2019n week lank gestrand is en sou van daar na Kappadosi\u00eb gaan om te ski. Hul vakansie sou egter op Saterdag 11 Februarie tot \u2019n einde kom. Teen druktyd was hulle steeds afwagtend op nuus oor wanneer hulle sal kan terugkeer.<\/p>\n
\u201cOns kyk na alle moontlikhede. Ons het \u2019n babatjie wat nie maklik reis soos dit is nie en nog twee ander kinders ook. Die busse staan stil en binnelandse vlugte is gekanselleer. Ons sit en wag en hoop op goeie nuus.\u201d<\/p>\n
Viljoen s\u00ea dat die aardbewing verlede Maandag omstreeks 04:00 plaasgevind het. <\/p>\n
\u201cEk het net voor 04:00 wakker geword en is badkamer toe. Ek het teruggestap en skielik gevoel hoe ruk alles om my. Ek het stilgestaan en begin bid. \u2019n Mens weet aanvanklik nie wat dit is nie,\u201d verduidelik sy.<\/p>\n
Sy vertel toe dat haar werkgewer dadelik na haar en die kinders gegaan het om seker te maak hulle is veilig. Sy is toe dadelik op sosiale media om te probeer uitvind wat aangaan.<\/p>\n
\u201cOns het die televisie aangesit en ek is toe op my foon in op Facebook. Skielik het die nuus ingekom van \u2019n aardbewing. Elke uur daarna het dit erger geword. Meer mense is dood. Meer geboue is verwoes. Dit is aaklig.\u201d <\/p>\n
Viljoen s\u00ea ook dat daar nog gereeld skokgolwe n\u00e1 die groot skudding voorkom en dat sy senuweeagtig is. <\/p>\n
\u201c \u2019n Mens weet nie wat om te verwag nie. Elke dag probeer ons om net positief te bly. Ons is gelukkig veilig en gesond. Ons moet dankbaar wees. Ons kon aanbly in die hotel waar ons oornag het en plaaslike inwoners staan ons by met kommunikasie van die owerhede (want dis nie altyd in Engels nie). Die dorp waar ons is, het min tot geen skade nie, maar hier is baie mense wat hul familie aan die dood moes afstaan. Dis hartverskeurend.\u201d <\/p>\n
Viljoen hoop dat hulle teen die einde van die week \u2019n vlug sal kan kry en beoog om haar gesin dan n\u00e1 die gebeure te sien.<\/p>\n
\u201cDie lewe is kort. My werkgewers het ges\u00ea ek mag vir drie weke na SA terugkeer om my familie te sien. Ek is dankbaar daarvoor, maar voel hartseer vir diegene wat hul gesinne verloor het,\u201d voeg sy by.<\/p>\n
Alf en Betsy Viljoen is opgewonde om hul dogter te sien. \u201cSy het ons dadelik laat weet van die skudding \u2013 nog voor ons dit elders kon lees. Ons is net dankbaar sy is veilig. Dit is aaklig om te weet jou kind gaan tans eerstehands deur hierdie gebeure soos ons dit op die nuus sien. Haar veiligheid is belangrik. Ons kan nie wag om haar te sien nie.\u201d<\/p>\n
Viljoen s\u00ea dat hulle hier-en-daar die dorp verken, maar meeste van die tyd by die hotel is met die hoop dat \u2019n vlug hul te beurt sal val.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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