This is devastation in Conception, Chile - amazing pics with tsunami damage

[malaise]

yet again lots of people are trapped in collapsed buildings. Yet again

On Sunday afternoon, President Michelle Bachelet announced that the official death toll – previously 300 – now stands at 708. “We’re facing an emergency unlike anything else in Chile’s history,” she said.

Ms. Bachelet also declared an official “State of Emergency,” promising to deploy more soldiers to the area. But Chile's National Office of Emergencies and Information said international assistance will not be required until Chilean authorities can properly assess the overall damage. President Bachelet said in a nationalized television address Saturday night that authorities will not have a clear picture of the devastation for 48 to 72 hours.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2010/0228/Chile-earthquake-Death-toll-rises-authorities-race-to-assess-damage

http://www.csmonitor.com/CSM-Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/More-images-of-Chile-s-earthquake


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Expect those numbers to rise

[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. It must be overwhelming to face damage like that

Chile is one of the more prosperous countries in Latin America, but still...

The collapsed roads tell me that it's fortunate that the quake occurred at 3 in the morning instead of 3 in the afternoon.

[malaise]

2. You're right

This would have been much worse if the quake happened during working hours. School was out until this week so that would not have been a factor last week.
I don't know if we have the strength left to start over were this to happen to us here in Jamaica.

[malaise]

4. Check this amazing report

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ihxUuu3cA85ZYK-N5t5lzZNK692QD9E5CJFG1
<snip>
When their 13th-floor apartment began to shake, Alberto Rozas pulled his 7-year-old daughter into the bathroom doorway and waited for it to stop.

Instead, they fell.

Thirteen stories they plummeted as their brand-new apartment building toppled like a felled tree, hugging each other all the way down.

Rozas had no idea which way was up until he looked through his apartment's shattered window and spotted light — "the light of the full moon."

Rozas and his daughter, Fernanda, clambered up and to safety with nothing more than a few cuts, scrapes and bruises.

On the second floor, Maribel Alarcon and her husband Gunther rushed to comfort their 2-year-old son Oliver when he started crying moments before the temblor.

Their concern was their salvation: Oliver's bedroom was the only place spared in their apartment.

[dipsydoodle]

3. This from yesterday

but our UK news still says there are more than 200 trapped in "an hotel" - could be something lost in translation there. http://www.theprovince.com/life/trapped+collapsed+Chile+building+Concepcion+mayor/2619539/story.html

[malaise]

5. We'll know the scale of damage in a day or two - they're

just reaching the worst hit areas.
I can't imagine what this is like for those affected - it's scary enough for those of us who are just watching or reading about these recent catastrophes.

[tekisui]

6. So much devastaion.

I wonder how many building will have to come down after this. So sad. Thanks for the link.

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[malaise]

8. Today for Chile

tomorrow for any one of us

Another good link
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35615455/ns/world_news-chile_earthquake/

[kestrel91316]

10. Look, I'm just filling in for people who are "the real DU".

[malaise]

12. LOL

:hi:

[eppur_se_muova]

11. First time I read that, I thought you said "beating their babies" ...

which doesn't seem so farfetched, actually. :evilfrown:

[kestrel91316]

13. I'm fairly sure a lot of them do that right after beating their bibles.

[malaise]

14. Doesn't their old testament

tell them to beat their children?

[kestrel91316]

15. Hell, yes. It even tells them to stone the recalcitrant ones to death.

Who am I to criticize? They can be my guest. Democrats are to tolerate everyone, apparently.

[The Straight Story]

19. I love stereotypes, they are progressive (nt)

[anonymous171]

16. Wut? nt

[spanone]

9. thanks....

[imnKOgnito]

17. Amazing how extensive some of that damage is

Considering Santiago is about 200 miles from the quake epicenter. Absolutely devastating. We're gonna get one of those in Seattle sooner or later, and I can only hope it's not during rush hour (which is pretty much 7-7 M-F around here).

[XemaSab]

20. Stay off the Alaska Way Viaduct

[imnKOgnito]

22. I don't go anywhere near the freeways around here

if I can at all help it. Which, most days I can.

[imnKOgnito]

18. Amazing how extensive some of that damage is

Considering Santiago is about 200 miles from the quake epicenter. Absolutely devastating. We're gonna get one of those in Seattle sooner or later, and I can only hope it's not during rush hour (which is pretty much 7-7 M-F around here).

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

21. I thought it was an earthquake.