catmandoo
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posted 04-22-2015 08:34 PM
You couldn't even make a story like this up and glad everything turned out all right.
Labissiere had just been given a ride home from basketball practice by his father. While his father stopped out front to make some repairs to the family's basketball goal, Labissiere went inside to get washed up before finding something to eat.
"My mom was in there sitting in the living room by the computer desk," said Labissiere. "I told her hello and I went into the bathroom to wash my hands before I went to the kitchen because I was hungry. After that, and I was in the bathroom with my little brother washing my hands and the house started to shake.
"I ran to my mom to hug her and my little brother did the same. It probably took us five seconds to get in that position and that's when the house fell on us."
In and understandable state of shock and confused by what had happened, Labissiere's mind went from thinking he was dreaming to survival mode.
"I heard people screaming on the outside and going crazy and I remember sitting with my mom and praying and screaming and hoping somebody would hear us from outside," he said. "We were stuck under there for like 30-45 minutes before my dad came. It was like the longest minutes of my life. I remember screaming and at one point I started to give up because I thought I was going to die and that's when my dad came."
On a day where the Haitian government has estimated that as many 300,000 lives were lost, Labissiere and his immediate family were relatively unharmed outside of some minor injuries that healed within a month or two.
Though their roof had caved in and Labissiere, his mother and brother were covered in rubble, their father was outside of the house and able to find two men to help him look for his family through the debris.
Labissiere says that after his father was able to find them, it took around three hours to get free of the collapsed house. Looking back, he feels strongly that it was the computer desk his mother was sitting near that may have saved the lives of he, his mother and brother. While the roof collapsed and much of the room around them caved in, the computer desk helped to hold up the wall behind them and kept them from being completely crushed.
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