We all piled in the car (I wish I had taken a picture of that) and made it towards Chillan, which is 6 hours south of here so Tina and Chris could ski. Here are some pictures of our trip. The first is a church that only has the front and back left- the middle just fell in as a result of the earthquake. We are traveling much closer to the epicenter of the quake, and this is quite evident by the damage.
We navigated a few detours of damaged and collapsed bridges, and saw evidence of the massive shakes' destruction. After spending the night in Talca, a little town on the way, we passed through another little town and, there, the devastation was heartbreaking. Out of respect for the dead, I did not take pictures.
The adobe facades of little homes may had been impacted, in some instances, but the roofs and side walls were caved in. The bomberos, or firemen, spray painted a huge circle and divided that circle into 4 parts, like a pie, on what was left of the front walls of these homes. In these pie parts there were numbers- mostly zeros, but some had " Uno nino, uno adulto" in the parts. This was where they found bodies, we think. I cannot imagine how horrible it was, and to still have that reminder on the fronts of these broken facades was so sad.
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