One man watching television in his living area was almost buried beneath the ceiling after it collapsed suddenly. The man didn’t panic and instead of panicking, video footage showed him clearing the debris from the eyes so he could watch television.
“I’m alright,”Robert Gongora spoke to Inside Edition. “No, I didn’t get hurt. Nothing really gets me too excited.”
He said that the cause of the collapse was a leaky air conditioner system. “We didn’t realize, little by little, it was soaking into sheetrock, and it just gave way.”
Gongora’s bulldog, Chuck, sensed trouble was coming and left the space, but his owner was none the wiser.
Gongora escaped the wreckage of the earthquake by standing up and shaking off the sheetrock.
Gongora’s girlfriend, Kimberly Crane, was folding laundry in another part of the house.
She said that his reaction was classical and consistent with his steady personality.
“Yes, you never really know if he’s excited,”She spoke.
Gongora stated that he learned a valuable lesson from almost drowning as a child.
“I knew by panicking, it makes it worse,”He stated.