Nuno Pereira was on holiday with his family in the Dominican Republic when an earthquake measuring 7 on the Reacher scale hit Haiti on January 12, 2010and who killed 300,000 people and wounded thousands.
in conversation with Daniel Oliveiraon the SIC High Definition program, the journalist said that he was going through a difficult period in his marriage, and it was on the day of the tragedy that he realized that there was no turning back. “I went on vacation to try and rehabilitate my ‘marriage. It was bad because he was always outside. It’s complicated. It takes a really big stomach to deal with on the go.“, he began with what he said.
“I arrived on Monday, and on Tuesday there was an earthquake in Haiti.. I was in the hotel pool, I felt something strange and didn’t realize it was an earthquake. This is the same island, but I was 600 kilometers from it. However, I went to the bathroom in the room, turned on the TV on the international news channel and saw that the island where I was had an earthquake and a tsunami warning for that island,” he added.
His first impulse was to look out the bedroom window to “try to see if the wave will come there”. “Then they removed the tsunami warning and I knew the phone was about to ring. SIC knew I was there on vacation and they called me to speak and as soon as the phone rang I was sure my vacation was over and the wedding was over because I couldn’t say no and I didn’t could not say no do. So it was”disclosed.