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Cecilia,Sam and their parents were staying in an apartment on the 15th floor of a building.They were lucky.Their building stayed standing,because it was built to withstand1 earthquakes. Not everyone was as fortunate as the Wallace family.Thousands of people died.Many older buildings collapsed2 during the earthquake. The damage in Kathmandu wasn’t as bad as in other parts of Nepal.So the supermarkets were open for business on the afternoon of that day.But it wasn’t business as usual.“The supermarkets have been crazy with people rushing to buy their food for the next while,”Sam wrote.