Family from Kansas City, Kan., is caught in Nepal earthquake

A Kansas City, Kan., couple visiting Nepal for a couple of months said the earthquake was strong enough to knock them off their feet.

Drew and Lauren Timberlake, 35, are living in Lalitpur, outside Kathmandu, with their children, Lauren said in a text message sent at night hours after the quake. They are with their children Oliver, 11, Ezra, 8, and Lois, 3.

In a blog post, Drew Timberlake, chief information officer for A.B. May, said the family was able to escape the house where they are staying.

“When the shaking finally ended (maybe 60 seconds or so) someone started yelling that people were stuck in a house that collapsed next door,” he wrote. “I ran over there, and all I could see was a large pile of bricks and a few people climbing on them.”

Through broken communication, he understood from one man pulling bricks away that the man’s two toddlers were stuck in a corner of the house.

“I got everyone off the top of the pile of bricks (so it wouldn’t collapse any further) and we were able to fish the kids out through a small little window,” Drew Timberlake wrote.

The Timberlakes walked to meet friends. They expected to sleep on a floor.

The family has already been in Nepal a month, said Lauren Timberlake, who is on staff with Mission Adelante, a Kansas City, Kan., organization that works with Latinos and Bhutanese-Nepali refugees. They are visiting friends who lead an organization that helps people, especially children, with disabilities, heart conditions and accident injuries.

This story was originally published April 25, 2015 at 1:23 PM with the headline "Family from Kansas City, Kan., is caught in Nepal earthquake."