Chile Earthquake - A Terrific Escape - A Foreigner Experience - VJ from Chile

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We are alive and fine for now.Thank God for that. The heavy movements lasted for 4 minutes early morning 3.30am on happy friday night,8.3 in our area, we were running down from 9th floor with our two little kids(3 yrs and 1.2 years) through emergency exit fully blocked with people. For a moment, we thought we were dead adn building is almost crashing, huge falling sound over our head, dvd and tv all are falling down, oh no, could imagine again. Still we are experiencing aftershocks measuring 4 to 5 in the scale now, hope big one won't occur again.Our house has some cracks as well. We were outside most of the time since then,only today night were were partially sleeping inside teh house,yes could not sleep well, its 3am now, still the shock is with us. No shops, no resturants, no ATMs,Airport is closed,no buses, no trains almost nothing, were were outside with kids, terrific two days. Power, gas, communication is restored quickly atleast in our area, so well organised and dedicated government, a real hats-off to chile government. Still we are shocked and not able to come out of it fully.Everytime there is a aftershock, we are runnning out and getting back to house again now. Under such a huge mess, the happiest part is our two little kids doesn't know what is happening arround happy playing and normal as they are, happy for that. All together could not take it easy, it was heavy and very miserable experience, something which is unforgettable to take away from Chile for rest our life, yes we are not Chileans. Hope we will be alive to see back our relatives and friends soon. Cheers Vj with heavy hearts from Chile, 1st March 2010, 3.17am.