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3,000+ properties with damage in Valpo:
http://www.emol.com/noticias/nacional/d ... cia=401695

We're fine, thanks, since the landline came back with the internet (it's all VTR inside).

EDIT by otravers: opps, I got confused by my newfound (and obviously, hopefully temporary) admin powers that I edited and thus butchered your post while I thought I was posting an answer. Sorry!

I thought I didn't remember writing that! Wow, what ventriloquy powers...

3,000+ properties with damage in Valpo

The true scale of the damage is really coming out now, isn't it? And there we were, merrily out and about on Saturday, thinking it was just the broken glass and plaster...

'Megacorte' of water starts tomorrow at 8am in most of Vina, all of Quilpue and Villa Alamena, and part of Valpo and Limache. So no water for 72 hours, until 8 am Friday. It's so Esval can repair the Las Vegas aquaduct.

Mercurio article: http://www.mercuriovalpo.cl/prontus4_no ... iovalpo.cl

“La interrupción del servicio afectará a 183 mil clientes, equivalentes alrededor de 600 mil personas. El corte afectará al 100% de los clientes de la ciudad de Quilpué y Villa Alemana, al 85% de la ciudad de Viña del Mar, 20% de Valparaíso y el 50% de Limache (San Francisco de Limache) “, de acuerdo a un comunicado de prensa emanado de la propia SISS.

There will be 'estanques' available (I'm assuming these are water tanks?)

Yeah, I have quite a few pics from San Antonio. I heard the Casino was turned into a temporary new pool There weren't too many stores open when we went on Friday. And they were all only taking cash. Sadly, the Scotiabank machine was out of order.

We have to go to Valparaiso this week, to renew my BF's tourist visa at the Gobernacion de Valparaiso... will be interesting to see how they fared.

We have to go to Valparaiso this week, to renew my BF's tourist visa at the Gobernacion de Valparaiso... will be interesting to see how they fared.

Ah yes, in that beautiful big tower block. I hope the lifts will be working.. I'll be going there this week too.

I went into work for a meeting today and my building was mainly just cosmetically damaged. Lots of plaster, no lifts. Bf has been through Valpo a lot in the last week for work and said most places looked OK. We're planning go for a wander and a meal on Concepcion/Alegre, particularly if those areas aren't affected by water cuts... It now turns out it'll be more like 700,000 people affected:

http://www.mercuriovalpo.cl/prontus4_no ... iovalpo.cl

be advised for anyone planning on coming to Viña area, rentals will be tough to find as some 12 buildings in Viña have been evacuated for structural damage.

http://www.mercuriovalpo.cl/prontus4_no ... 11756.html

Our building (Festival) was evacuated after the quake and we found an apartment the beginning of last week. By midweek, the real estate agent told us that houses they could not rent for years are now rented

Sorry to hear you had to be evacuated. Will they be able to repair the damage?

Glad you managed to get a new place. We feel very fortunate we'd moved to Vina a few weeks before the quake happened. Let me know if we can help at all.

We plan on being in Vina 6/15 to 8/15. I see no good reason to change those plans. Any thoughts?

John Hyre

I shouldn't think so. We only moved here last month and have been just fine. As Rook said, if you're looking to rent, you may have problems finding somewhere. On the whole, it's very much business as usual.

Concejales piden evaluar restricciones urbanas en Viña
http://www.mercuriovalpo.cl/prontus4_no ... 84700.html

The article above includes a list of buildings and houses flagged for partial or complete destruction.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2pWhvTA1co

Cam from the subterranean Casino del Pacifico, San Antonio WITH SOUND. Less than three clicks away from me. Oh the memory!

yea, I would have had security cam footage from my office, but our housekeeper cleaned it the day before(keep trying to tell her not to dust it) and then left it pointed at the wall. I just got a fuzzy white wall.

Personal observations as of today on my walk through Llolleo to San Antonio.

Still a number of closed businesses due to damaged structures.

Then there are the individual and mom and pop type businesses that have plastered cement into the cracks and painted over and are operating normally. I see many businesses operating from obviously structurally damaged buildings.

On the other hand, seems many businesses have used the earthquake as an excuse to renovate, remodel, improve their physical setting.

Many houses still cleaning up, quite a few are condemned, others doing patch-up work.

The San Antonio Gobernacion structure is definitely SOL.

The bridge connecting Barrancas and Llolleo has been supporting normal traffic for many weeks but the formally two lanes on each side is only one lane each side as each has been reduced to accommodate a pedestrian traffic lane.

The Lo Gallardo bridge still alternates between one-way traffic. I think the sucker will have to be replaced.

Recovery will be a lengthy process despite all the initial Fuerza Chile Fuerza San Antonio hype.

IMO, the next 8.0 earthquake will bring lots of structures down that just made it through this past shake. Buyer beware.

Due to the damp and mould problems we're having, it looks like we're going to have to move (oh, the irony, our flat got through the earthquake just fine). We'll be looking to stay in the centre of Vina, although would definitely consider about one of the touristy hills in Valpo (flats there are like hens' teeth, tho).

Anyway, otravers posted this a while back:

Concejales piden evaluar restricciones urbanas en Viña
http://www.mercuriovalpo.cl/prontus4_no ... 84700.html

The article above includes a list of buildings and houses flagged for partial or complete destruction.

We'll run any potential new place through this before we go for it, but has anyone seen an updated version recently? Or has any other pearls of wisdom for the post-earthquake apartment hunt?

If there exists a list of places with cell phone masts, that would be great as well.. the thing that seals the move, apart from damp-related health problems, is that the administrator of the building just admitted today (when he came to say he couldn't/wouldn't do anything about the damp coming through from the ceiling, or that the damp appears to be structurally related) that they'd just put up 4 cell phone masts on the roof above us (we're top floor), and the consultation with the residents isn't even over yet! (Incidentally, they were put up over two weeks ago, and the strange noises that have been waking us up since then seem to be the damn masts reverberating in the wind).

If anyone has any leads on a 2 bedroom plus furnished año corrido place preferably with the usual mod cons, please PM me.