awoke

Dazed survivors of a pair of major earthquakes in the southern Philippines awoke on Saturday to scenes of devastation, after hundreds of aftershocks rocked the region overnight.

But in the middle of the night her mother awoke to a series of "disturbing" messages from her daughter, who had left their home, "which gave her an immediate cause for concern".

Some awoke to a flood of text messages and calls and had few options that would get them on the ground in the U.S. ahead of the deadline.

“Business finally awoke to the potential of such devices,” writes historian Robert Sobel in “The Big Board: A History of the New York Stock Market.”

Those who made it to the end with him had the choice to return to the real world, where they awoke as survivors of a meteorite impact in Shibuya with no recollection of the Borderlands.