I wasn't in santiago that night, in fact I wasn't anywere near the V-VIII region. I had just arrived from Perú and was still travelling in the north of Chile. However, all my family was here so when I found out about the earthquake I called everyone to see how they were. I was sleeping as usuall, but an unusuall call at 6 o'clock in the morning woke me up. It was my cousin, thinking I was at home, was trying to reach me since the earthquake took place. She asked me how I was and if all my family was fine, I told her very confuse I was sleeping and that I think they're ok, then she told me about the earthquake as she realised I didn't have any idea of the recent events.
Then, obviously, I tried to reach my family to know how they were, fortunately, I could reached them almost inmediatelly, they were all together in my grandmother's house.
I didn't realized the devastation until the next day, the cable went wrong all morning so it was after lunch when I saw the first images of all the affected places. It was horrible, all the people crying and looking for their families that were on vacation on those places. I felt very lucky to know that all my family was fine.
Days past, although I wanted to continue on vacations I had to come back, but Lan wasn't changing all airplane tickets so quickly (I was supposed to arrived to Santiago that same day), but I was very lucky and when I went to see when I could travell they told me they had one ticket for that same day. I was very happy:D.
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An "unusuall call"? out of context sounds funny XD!!!(but I know that it wasn't)...
ReplyDeleteok, back to your post... I had a similar situation. I was in Stgo. but I culdn't talk at first with my family in the south. That scared me.
It's was a shame that you weren't that night with us, but in the other side, you didn't feel the earthquake =)
ReplyDeletedon't you think was boooored have not felt the earthquake?...
ReplyDeletei think is's a experience that you have to live.
so, just wait for the next one!! jejej
and having a party!! with us!! yous friends!! jajaja
that's all
BYEE
aahhah yes, an ¨unusuall call¨ sounds funny if the new wasn´t a bad new.
ReplyDeletesee ya
I know about a lot of people that regret not to be in Chile that night, but don't worry earlier than later will come a new eartquake for you to live. ;)
ReplyDeleteit must have been awful to see images of the devastation so late that day, huh? I watched the news about an hour after the eathquake because the electricity supply came back fast, and saw everything destroyed from the very first minutes.
ReplyDeleteThe third day, those images became exhausting to watch D: