had to be. it was god. there was wall all over the floor. stepped into it and screamed at him wake up, the other side of the cabin, his grandpa. my grandfather had woken up about the same time. we were actually it wasn t our cabin. it was a friend of ours from shreveport, troy and trish reaves. they let us stay for the week. my grandfather had woken up about the same time and he went out to use the restroom out of his room and notice that the entire living room floor was covered in water. so he started waking up the rest of the family while coincidentally she woke me up and we started putting stuff as high as we could because we didn t know what was going on. we all gathered at the front door and immediately we felt the house shaking, the whole cabin was going to go so all seven of us jumped out of the cabin to the front porch that
the night to the house shaking, not being able to tell the doors opened or closed to get out of our room. immediately wan to get my daughter to pick her up and keep her away from my class that could glass that could break. my husband, and daughter and i stood in the door frame of her bedroom which is a safer place to be in the earthquake. the walls shook, the floor shook. we could hear everything falling from shelves, from the walls, falling and breaking. but we couldn t see anything because it was pitch black and the electricity was out. the electricity out now? we got it back last night. out for almost 24 hours but we re online again. i can imagine last night was unnerving. did you get any sleep? i actually did. i was so tired because we only had three hours sleep before the earthquake hit. and afterwards, just running around and trying to cover it all day i was quite beat.
this morning. police and residents say that some people felt a shake, about 10 to 20 miles away, the ground shaking, the house shaking. one resident told our cnn affiliate, wtnh, that they saw a bright orange flame between two smokestacks. it s our understanding from the police this that this power plant called clean energy power plant was not yet online, that it was in the testing phase, but due to go online later this year. again, on the scene, casualties at middlesex hospital. we ll be following up as the day goes on. and give me an idea of this plant in proximity to homes? reporter: i can see some homes scattered in the distance, not a heavily populated area, more rural just outside middletown. all right. back to amanpour after this. [ male announcer ] for over 50 years, providing you with safe,