BeaSong,
Praying for you and your friends, and for all the folks in Chili and Haiti.
It's a scary place to be at the moment.
Charllotte

Thank you all for your kind support.
We made it through two days worth of detours, broken bridges and torn up roads to Viña and it looks like the Chileans are beginning to pull themselves up from the rubble. Many tall apartment buildings will have to be demolished. The people are pulling things out of the buildings and lowering them with ropes to salvage what they can. Relatives and neighbors are helping, as well as the military that have brought food and water. One woman has 10 families staying in tents in her back yard and is inviting more. There is a national telethon to inspire everyone to gather themselves up.

I thought about you when I saw the news today. They said there was a bad aftershock in Conception today.
I am so glad you made it safely. It is great to hear the good stories about how great folks can be. The news tends to focus on the bad.

Hugs to you,
Ana

We got that on our UK news, too, BrownEyedTigre. [Awful !!]

People there are going to need an awful lot of help for a long time to come

But I'm glad to hear you got through, BeaSong.

Take care now

Very happy to hear you are still OK and that Chile is digging out and going forward. Thanks.

There is a huge campaign going on in Chile right now with a 24 hour telethon ending soon, to raise the funds to pay for the 30,000 houses that they are building right now. They have 40 huge trucks with tons of help, all ready to roll south to distribute to the people sleeping in the streets. The attitude of help is massive and workers are everywhere, trying to clean up the mess and get to reconstruction.

Beasong so glad to hear you are safe and all is going well.

Thank you,
a quick update:Still strong after shocks, but no more damage.
We are in Viña del Mar, where several buildings are going to be demolished because of structural damage. Fortunately my friend's hotel Hotel San Martin) is not one of them. The city is turning off the water in several areas while some of this goes on and sometimes the electricity. That would include my friend's house up in the hills, so we are bathing in the hotel. We can only wonder the difficulty of things like this in the villages along the coast. This hotel employes 150 people, each of whom have been touched deeply, with family and friends directly involved with the catastrophy and thus have donated, inspired by my friend and from her own contribution, over 35 thousand dollars, which was seen on the TV telethon and is recorded on this YouTube page.
http://www.youtube.com/my_videos?feature=mhw4

Hi BeaSong,

I can't view the video, the link takes me to my YouTube page where I have to log in but then doesn't let me see it after I log in.

That is awesome that your friend and her employees contributed. I am sure they all have their own grief to tend to as well. I am glad to hear her hotel withstood the quake.

Hugs and stay safe,
Ana

BeaSong, so glad you are doing ok. Will you be able to get a flight home when you are ready to come?

Ooops, sorry about the link. I'll have to see what I can do about that.
Yes, I got a flight out last night, no problem.
Because of all the media coverage and military mix ups on tsunami alerts, the aftershocks have many people scared more than ever. It will be a while before things calm down. Electricity and water supplies are being slowly restored.
But, I'm home, back on the farm, taking care of the goats. Thanx for all of your concern. It is greatly appreciated.

Glad you are safely home, BeaSong

Home safe. Happy to hear it!

Welcome home, I'm glad you got back safely.

Bea so glad to hear you are home safe.