"I was awake and I heard this boom and it shook my bed, " said Betty Steel, who lives in a retirement village adjacent to the nursing home.

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It comprised a cot bed in a clean, white-washed cell up under the eves and adjacent to a big balcony that looked out onto the street and across the city's dark tempestuous night.

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