Life in Exile
7.2 (only? 7.2?)
For now, the images say q over a thousand words, right next my twitter here, I can tell you a bit more about the subject of the earthquake-earthquake, with capital letters, some say, well, with all its letters, CLICK TREMOR, sustote HORRIBLE, that we stick yesterday at about three o'clock in the afternoon at Mexicali is your city, for better or worse we had to live here, to paraphrase Cristina Pacheco and villages to Tepito ...
THE FRIGHT TO TAKE YESTERDAY, THERE IS NOTHING COMPARED WITH Q HAVE SEEN OR HAVE TOUCHED ME SEE.
And if, like many, am a coward in that respect and I have PANIC to earthquakes, like many others, and even living in Mexicali, knowing that we live in an earthquake zone, can not get used.
Yesterday in the market we I play just to be on the Soriana de Benito Juarez / Justo Sierra. This is a street in its southern part is called Benito Juarez, the monument after the above is called Justo Sierra. in the section called Benito Juarez is now the giant Soriana. the mentioned small market suffered a thousand n d changes over your life, now with new ones after being converted to Soria.
is perhaps the WORST PLACE WHERE YOU CAN TAKE AN EARTHQUAKE.
The moment was more ugly, HORROR, if, HORROR, feeling like the huge hull of the building swayed, where in Mexicali are not used to tall buildings beyond the building in the center with Telnor as only about eight floors. Mexicali is flat.
People ran away from Soriana, hugging, some people began to pray, to incarse, to mourn. loosed an elderly lady as she was clinging desperately crying, embraced ...
karmic punishment for Easter?
Maybe ...
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Data: 7.2 Richter
3-4
dead 280 wounded
REPLICAS 70 + (7 x at least 5 degrees or so)
2000 Victims
(Data Local News: local-channel Multivision 44-109.1 Fm - Noticiero "consent"; that of Mr. Antonio Magaña.)
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Mexicali is a city SLAVE MOTOR . was originally designed with a layout almost perfect - except for a few frames as the old colony Pasadina in the form of concentric rings - traced-lo gringo, when perfectly symmetrical and straight. Here can be seen as
PLAGUE daily transit of trucks, carts and carrot and TOTES TO-CART.
seems that the bigger the car more ... fat is the owner, so I've ever seen ...
And yesterday, ALL Mexicali, moments after the quake, they realized that HE WAS THE LIGHT IN THE CITY ... and therefore not run the pumps of gasoline x as much.
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Shortly after we left the Soriana, was when we really realize the magnitude of the disaster:
Circulating x Benito Juarez to Justo Sierra - q is the same blvd but change d name behind the Monument to the above - I saw the breaking of glass - q q are in the video I put d shows - the fracture of several buildings - some like the ISSTECALI - the blue building c / q seen in white super corner cracked but not seen until a 2nd or third view, in the video is just the damage is more evident q be a video taken in a moving car. We
so, through several streets flowing northward, we visited some friends and circle X streets of cabbage. Cuauhtemoc.
And increasingly, the more time passed, the more we were able to explain that the earthquake was much, much more serious than they seemed at first.
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First diagnosis: 6.9 Richter
Reality: 7.2 Richter
Ejidos affected: Most of the Mexicali Valley, especially the southern suburbs: Ex Sonora, Sinaloa, Cocopah, Col. Carranza, eg, near the epicenter of the quake.
Epicenter: Village Lighthouse, The Gate (next town down the road to St. Philip) and adjacent suburbs.
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After a while, we noticed that there was enough glue on the roast. was when we tried to find a oxxo, and all closed. in fact, circulate around the center, from Cuauhtemoc, through the center - a new colony - and take the path of the F Street - by col. industrial, heading south-Civic Center -.
All businesses, even the modest neighborhood grocery were closed. for damages in the quake, Calimax ocmo many large markets were closed, and small grocery took his place again. Stuven
circulating until we find one out there lost in the cabbage. Freedom - further south - and we buy something. people into panic buying, and I got to see queues of people in line to buy tacos asada orders.
Soon it was when he started well, when the stations do not work anymore, because the light in the city was. rather, not notice that the light was gone, until nightfall. And
Mexicali stayed dark.
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was not so bad the darkness we could see what had years of not see the city whole families taking the air, people, I could see people again, taking to the streets again.
People x step turning the streets, on foot, and the families returned to their seats on the porch of their home. here in the north, people usually have patios outside their homes, instead of southern Mexico, q have it indoors only. We
some friends about d closer to the house, which were making a roast with a mine gas. There was no light in the city, and we could barely see each other face. but still the people were happy. were happy.
- "you notice that you can see the stars?" - I was told.
We ate fries baked in the disabled, and retired to our homes.
Many people spent the night camped outside their houses that night. Weekly column
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