Hello everyone:
well first at all want to say thank you to everyone that posted here showing their concern about what been happening in my country, well will do an little introduction to everyone new members, my name is Francisco and i live in Santiago, Chile the country capital.
well will say about my experience with the earthquake happened in Chile the saturday february 27 at 3 am had an duration of 7 minutes.if the moderator of the group let me do that.
well i woked up because my family felt the earthquake at first time started of soft way was of wave the expansion of the quake later increased the strength and well my house is of two floors and had to get between the output of the bedroom and was my hands holding between the frame of the door and the stair banister , and tried of quiet to my family because if we were in the stair with our total weights and the strenght of the quake the stair would colapsed for lucky that does not happened, later when the quake stopped we going to the first floor and i was the first in go downstairs to see what happened the kitchen the furnitures was in the floor glasses broken bathroom all the things in the floor broken but the appliances do not was destroyed, maybe because the furnitures were was the ampliances had wheels so just get moved with the shake and well we activated our emergency plan the radio powered with batteries i turned on and tuned in the first station that were broadcasting the incident.
Chile is an Country that occur earthquakes so we my family atleast was ready to start our emergency plan have an defined area safe in our patio etc etc.
we were awake that day all night long we just wanted that appear the sunlight and well the second night we going with the matress in the first floor for sleep in case of shakes we can evacuate inmediatelly the house.
and well my house do not had any structural damage our neighborns brick walls is 3 in my street that are in risk of colapse is with some wood bars to try of avoid that and with an yellow line that say danger , the power and water supply was cut the water supply get restored on sunday afternoon, the power supply was restored on friday but just because my mom use an bipap machine for an sleep apnea and i called to the municipality of my town for report on wednesday that,at first they do not wanted enter my report so i pushed and get my report entered, at the two hours get an call to the fixed line phone the manager of the electric company asking me an dumb question, " if i had power supply, i answered no and she said that my area was now in the priority list, the thursday with the desperation i saw some areas of my town nearest to home with power supply at 50 meters of distance 0.0310 miles so on night took my cell phone and took an picture showing the contrast between my area without power supply and the area with power supply and sent via email with my cell phone the picture to the only radiostation that was broadcasting non stop everything and saying all the truth about what were happening and were allowing that the people get touch with them to report problems due the quake, locate to an relative or family member that is in the southern area from the regions of Libertador Bernardo O Higgins till the region of the los rios, regions= states to us.also i was on monday to the power supply company office to put my report but had to lie to the person that was giving the numbers of attention to an assistant and of that way could report to the office directly about the situation, if i said the truth the guy would told me that should wait because not were the only. ok agree but my case was very special
we later of the quake we collected water in some pails before that the water supply was cut, the next day i were called from my work to help to fix the showroom i work as stocker and study at same time in the college and was shocking see everything in the floor gondolas that was completelly broken etc etc, i just did my best for try of accomplish with my citizenship duty in emergency settings.
i saw in my work that the gondolas are empty i work for an biggest chain of supermarkets that now were purchased or merged with wall mart and the trucks from central warehouse just essential things but are not enough in fact are just trading things from Argentina because the industry too some their mchinery are broken and the airport and ports are seriously damaged and for trade new machines or repair replacement will be in one or even more than two months.
i think that as pushed so much get results in my favor, my mother can not live without the BIPAP machine on night.and had to do something because of other way would still without electricity supply in fact are many areas of Santiago and others regions affected with the quake that still without power supply , now i knew that lack transformers because many transformers was burned and have to be imported because is not even industry that manufacturate transformers or one that have capacity of manufacturate the enough devices to the 6 regions and thousand of devices.is right now shortage of basic things like tea,coffee,milk,flour,candles,batteries, water in bottle,etc etc essential things.also are speculating with the products values in little business even the bread from an value of 1.5 dollars upper to 3 dollars the kilo and others business near of home was selling the bread by piece but to an highest value. we currently are just purchasing now bread in the supermarket.
now well i have to say that this earthquake will never be erased of my memory destroyed houses,buildings killed people by the not quick action of our government and not accomplishing the anti seismic laws of build houses and buildings.
well my doctor that i visit was called also by the army to help to the area affected by the quake.
sorry if the post is not well structurated just am nervous because still having quakes of lower strenght.
well one more time thank you by the concern shown by the members here.
the friday get restored the power supply during that time i had my cell phone turned off for preservate energy in my battery because the networks were just not working was continously looking up network and well better was turned off for save energy and just turn on for emergency calls.
take care
Francisco
