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Trip to Chile, Feb - March 2010
So Madison, Jacobi and I were headed to Chile via Caracas and Buenos Aires when during the early morning hours on Saturday February 27th one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded hit southern Chile. We were in the Buenos Aires airport when it happened waiting for our 830am flight to Santiago and ended up spending 4 days in Argentina waiting for the Santiago airport to re-open. We made the best of a difficult situation and eventually made it home and luckily the area the kids live in did not suffer as much damage as other areas.
The worst of the damage came from the tsunamis that hit up and down the southern coast of Chile. The above picture is one that the news channels in Chile showed many times and probably is "the face" of the earthquake damaged areas.
While we waited in Buenos Aires we watched a lot of tv to say the least. One of the programs we watched was a touristic show highlighting Chile. They mentioned Valparaiso's Hotel Reina Victoria and that it was the first hotel built in all of South America which was something I did not know and I decided to be sure to take a picture of the hotel when we finally made it back. I've only walked by the hotel at least a few hundred times.
This is a closed gate in the doorway of a building that back in 2004 burned due to a gas explosion that happened across the street in a busy area of Valparaiso. This is another building I've walked by a few hundred times and it was sad to see what was left. Many people died as a result of the explosion and fire and the Refugio sign (Refuge) I would have to guess is meant as a place for the spirits of those people.
The worst of the damage came from the tsunamis that hit up and down the southern coast of Chile. The above picture is one that the news channels in Chile showed many times and probably is "the face" of the earthquake damaged areas.
While we waited in Buenos Aires we watched a lot of tv to say the least. One of the programs we watched was a touristic show highlighting Chile. They mentioned Valparaiso's Hotel Reina Victoria and that it was the first hotel built in all of South America which was something I did not know and I decided to be sure to take a picture of the hotel when we finally made it back. I've only walked by the hotel at least a few hundred times.
This is a closed gate in the doorway of a building that back in 2004 burned due to a gas explosion that happened across the street in a busy area of Valparaiso. This is another building I've walked by a few hundred times and it was sad to see what was left. Many people died as a result of the explosion and fire and the Refugio sign (Refuge) I would have to guess is meant as a place for the spirits of those people.
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