My Fox News Interview

http://video.foxnews.com/#/v/4058364/scariest-two-minutes-of-my-life/?playlist_id=87249

Earthquake in Chile

Waking up to an earthquake. Not fun. The night before perfectly calm and relaxed. Temperature in the 80's a normal night. Going to sleep that night I was not aware that I would be woken up the next day to a natural disaster. Anyway so about at 3am I was woken up to violent shaking. A few weeks ago there had been a small shake so I wasn't thinking that I was in a huge earthquake until seconds later. I heard screaming and sounds of glass shattering and pots breaking. My host dad runs in the room and is yelling "teremoto, been aqui rapido!" We run under the post of the door and are standing there for 2 minutes. Probably the longest two minutes of my life. After the quake stopped, my host family and I went downstairs people that is what most of the people in the apartment were doing. Once getting downstairs seeing peoples faces was horrible. Everyone had tears in the eyes and trying to call relatives and see how they were doing but the phone lines were down or very slow. Anyway everyone was waiting down in the lobby until about 7 because we were all waiting for the after shock, which eventually came at around 8 again when I went back to sleep. I woke up to get my day started around 8:30 and went to my “aunt’s” house. There we watched the news and saw the destruction of this earthquake. Hard to believe that in 2 minutes buildings that were in perfect condition the day before were completely leveled to the ground. Anyway, since my uncle here owns one of the biggest jean companies in Santiago he wanted to go see how his stores and offices were doing. He volunteered to take me around driving and take photos if I came with him to check. I obviously said yes because I wanted to see what other parts of the city were like. I saw areas that were extremely devastating and I saw areas that had barely any exterior damage. There were apartments that had no back walls so when I stopped to take pictures I could see into people’s bed rooms. There was barely anything open because so many buildings were destroyed and people needed to take care of their families and homes. There were a few gas stations opened however when we stopped to get gas, we had to wait in a line for 30 minutes. I saw bridges that were broken and roads were closed. My cousins who were in the south just for a day trip were unable to get back to Santiago because the roads were backed up with tons of traffic because of the limited roads. People who were supposed to leave for vacation or come to Santiago for vacation are unable to at the moment because the airport is in such bad condition. It was horrific to see what was on the news about other areas in Chile and it makes me feel extremely lucky that I only had to suffer the shake and a few things breaking and luckily I still have a home to live in for the rest of my stay in Chile. I will put my photos on photo bucket because there are too many to post in this blog entry.