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Please repost that to the Missing Person thread, and to the Spanish thread so the people helping with that will see it.

Hello Chile Forum,

Power finally returned about 30 minutes ago.

They are now allowing cars in groups with pilot vehicle to cross the Lo Gallardo bridge connecting Santo Domingo to Llolleo-San Antonio till about 8 at night.

The port is back in operation more or less and ships waiting offshore are slowly being processed.

Lots of damage to homes in the poblaciones that is incalculable at the moment.

There were homes that got washed away and about 7 accounted for and recovered bodies from the local maremoto that occurred minutes after the earthquake.

They say it was 8.2 here.

My losses were only most of my dishes, recuerdos and the toilet in one of the bathrooms came off the floor.

The departamento was without water for a day and power for almost 6 days.

My pareja was working in the restaurant in Santiago at the time and she and her daughters are fine.

My supplies from nonperishable food to booze to camping/backpacking and battery operated hardware (with ample batteries) and quick thinking in filling up my tubs after the quake made the next days less stressful.

Regards in trying circumstances,

eeuunikkeiexpat

eeuunikkeiexpat wrote:Hello Chile Forum,

Power finally returned about 30 minutes ago.

They are now allowing cars in groups with pilot vehicle to cross the Lo Gallardo bridge connecting Santo Domingo to Llolleo-San Antonio till about 8 at night.

The port is back in operation more or less and ships waiting offshore are slowly being processed.

Lots of damage to homes in the poblaciones that is incalculable at the moment.

There were homes that got washed away and about 7 accounted for and recovered bodies from the local maremoto that occurred minutes after the earthquake.

They say it was 8.2 here.

My losses were only most of my dishes, recuerdos and the toilet in one of the bathrooms came off the floor.

The departamento was without water for a day and power for almost 6 days.

My pareja was working in the restaurant in Santiago at the time and she and her daughters are fine.

My supplies from nonperishable food to booze to camping/backpacking and battery operated hardware (with ample batteries) and quick thinking in filling up my tubs after the quake made the next days less stressful.

Regards in trying circumstances,

eeuunikkeiexpat

Good to hear you and you're loved ones are well.. all the best and keep safe.

Metropolitan region. Between 0 and 18:00 hours, the public security situation in the region has been peaceful and no public disorders and no streets incidents have been registered. The population is calm and quiet. Police and PDI personnel guard the region areas by keeping their forces deployed and reinforced. It was informed that 21 people were detained for common crimes. About 92,4% of the region has electrical power. Paine, Isla del Maipo, Melipilla and Lampa present problems..Fuel supply is assured, there are 382 gas stations in service, about 88.00%'.
Mobil phones are operating at about 82.00%. Land lines are operating at about 95%'
Road connections to the Manuel Rodriguez bridge presents some problems. El Monte area.
Access to Arturo Merino Beniotez Airport maintains restrictions by the CostaneraNorte.
Regarding the health network, there are 31 hospitals operating normally.'.
Urban transportation is running 100% in all Santiago regions,but Maipu where the system operates at 90 %.

Welcome back to the World, EEUU and Cali.

Translated on behalf of Zandra:

EXTRA: a few minutes ago, MOVISTAR re-established the fixed-line telephone service in Dichato! There are public telephones in the offices on Calle Daniel Vera 725

Chile's wineries lost 12% from the earthquake. its tough on the employees.
Buy Chilean wine!!! best way to help!!

What a great excuse.

Our own allchile.net Direct Earthquake Relief Flight project is up and running. Details on this thread here: topic3965.html

The pay pal button at the top of the site is for donations to buy fuel and medical supplies for our allchile.net direct relief flight project.

LIBERTADOR BERNARDO O'HIGGINS

In terms of public safety, the situation in the region is of absolute normality. No incidents or public disturbances have been reported and people have remained calm, just 2 arrests for petty theft.
However, police personnel remains on alert. Drinking water services have been partially restored in the communities of: Coya, Mostazal, Codegua, La punta, Coltauco, Quinta de Tilcoco, Pichidegua, Las Cabras, Placilla, Chepica, Santa Cruz and Peralillo. In the communities of Nancagua and Navidad water hasn't been restored yet.Electricity hasn't been restored yet in the region,just 81.5% has power.
The fuel supply in the region is almost at full capacity, with 77 of 91 gas station in operation, representing 85 % of them in operation.
Telecommunications are being re-established, cell phones are operating at 63 % and land lines are working over 85 %.
All roads of the region are connected. La Ruta de la Fruta is closed between Las Cabras and Las Aranas crossing, but there are some alternatives routes.
Transit is interrupted because of a collapsed bridge going towards Navidad. Route 90 Sn Fernando-Pichilemu, in Puentes los Maquis the road is inaccesible and the traffic is interrupted, same as in Ruta H- 640 Pelequen. La Ruta Rengo-Malica,is inoperable in the sector of Tuniche,Ministerio de Obras Publicas is evaluating the path H-66 due to the fact that San Jose de Marchigue, Descarga and San Jose, have access problems. The region health network will be supported by a field hospital in Rancagua, that was sent by Cuba and it's already in the country.

First, I want to say thanks to everyone that jumped on board with this half-baked idea I had this afternoon. It was not even fully formed in my head, before it started snowballing in to a project with real legs.

Big big thanks to Vince for donating his time and the plane. He really has gone all in on this project.

So, has everyone else. We invite everyone to participate, even if it is just reading along as we pull this off.

As of this post, we have raised $1,024 for fuel for the plane. We are going to sort out the medical supply situation in the morning and figure out the other logistics.

Well, time to call it quits for today.

I don't even know where to start. It was all the way around a very very good day for both us, the forum, the victims. We will take all the good days we can get in this situation. Now everyone pray for good weather for the allchile.net airlift.

EE reported for duty today. I think he is still catching up on all the action while he was unplugged. Just glad we got him back in one piece. The forum is not the same without him, or really any of our members.

We found a few more people today, connected a few others with their families, past a few more messages.

We got in touch with our former students in China, that jumped on board instantly to start a campaign in China to help Chile. Anyone that has been to China, knows if the Chinese decide to do something they really decide to do it. They build entire cities that would hold the population of Chile in a few weeks. We are just hoping that perhaps it might catch fire in China. Perhaps later we can work on getting Chile things like machinery and other things direct from China. Just wishes at this point, but can't hurt.

We still have people missing. We still have a list of unaccounted for, and we are still dialing their cell phones and sending sms in hopes they will find a way to charge them. We are honestly considering the possibility of going to Concepción ourselves to try and see what we can find out.

what else? I don't really know .....

Here are two happy guys that must have been smoking something when the tsunami hit. Lucky they didn't stay for the subsequent waves.

http://tinyurl.com/yl6lgdf