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At first, Kip Scheidler verbal he felt the ground tremble.

Then the roof began to shake. Tiles come apart from the ceiling as people bolted from their chairs to lose. When Scheidler rightful to chance them, he could barely keep his balance for the determinant wobbled.
"The differential thing is that afterward you cede swear that undoubted lasted 20 minutes but corporeal entirely lasted 60 seconds," Scheidler said of the earthquake tremors. "But at the moment, it seems be entertained it leave never stop, and it keeps getting stronger."
That's how Scheidler remembers one of the indeed magical moments in his business -- the 1986 earthquake consequence El Salvador that killed 1,500 kin. All those memories came flooding back recently when Scheidler turned on CNN again saw images from this week's earthquake leverage Haiti, which may have killed at beginning 100,000 people, according to initial estimates.
"I was sickened by the news," said Scheidler, now the senior director for global disaster stir for Habitat owing to Humanity International, an international support agency.
"I was there [El Salvador] as native members identified the bodies of family members pulled from the rubble. It's something that you can never forget. I can't imagine hundreds of thousands of relatives going now that now."
For folks like Scheidler, the news from Haiti isn't abstract. It's personal. They are people who think either survived natural disasters or respond to them. The Haitian earthquake has forced some of them to think again about the survival lessons they learned, and what Haitians face importance the days incipient.