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PostPosted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 8:11 pm 
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However I still think I'm a very, very lucky person...

Oddly, I've always thought that whenever we raced online.


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:07 pm 
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Phineus wrote:
Kmaster wrote:
However I still think I'm a very, very lucky person...

Oddly, I've always thought that whenever we raced online.


Yeah, especially when you lag me or you kick me out of the road :roll:

It feels like a "long drawn out shaking", first you hear a really scary underground noise, then ground started to move, i dont know how to explain it.. like from left to right, at least that was what I felt. it was not immediate, it took like 5-10 seconds to reach its peak. then you see stuff is starting to fall, you hear glass and other unknown stuff breaking, then the electricity goes out and you hear screams and some other stuff. people crying and women in shock. It lasted like. 1.5 min. After the first quake I immediately went to my cousin's house, since she was alone with her baby. she was ok but in completely state of shock. No one could sleep that night and everybody was scared. We had full moon that night, at least. aftershocks every 30 min. I tried to contact my mom and my girlfriend all night but the lines were collapsed. (they're all ok btw)


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:12 pm 
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wow, didn't know it shakes for such a long time. And are after shocks just as bad? Or just rumbles of sorts?
Is it like hard to stand while this is happening, stuff moving around and stuff. Can you see your house walls moving, or is it more like in the movies where you just can't stand up and the world itself is shaking?


Sorry for the questions, In Canada, especially Manitoba, there pretty much is no natural disasters (Even floods, were are almost immune to floods). We might get 3 or 4 tornadoes every year, but we have few trailer parks and 90% of the time the twister lands in the bush. So I have no idea what these disasters feel like.

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I was in bed when this started. (3:34 am here) I woke up and said, okay, it's a quake (common here in Chile) nothing to worry about, I was only wearing underwear so I took a t-shirt, then after the first 5-10 seconds it started to shaking really fast, I heard the noise of things falling and breaking, lots of screams. The walls didn't move, it was just the furniture that was shaking and falling. I could only leave my apartment when the first quake ended so I don't know how it felt in the ground. It is not easy to stand up, but not impossible, I was even able to put my pants during the mayhem. But from what I heard from ppl from the south, it was completely impossible to stand up so they had to crawl.

Some news: things are slowly going back to normality, here in Valparaíso. A completely different things is happening in the south in Santiago, ppl in the city outskirts are trying to loot supermarkets due to food, water and electricity shortage. Looting and vandalism has increased in the most destroyed cities. there's almost no law in those sites. it seems like the troops sent by the government are not enough.


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Glad to know that your ok Kmaster, my roommate(from Brazil BTW) told me about about it prolly 6 hours after it happened from Yahoo news


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Deja vu eh? came across this while browsing the archives wow didn't now you guys had one in 2008 too.


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:36 pm 
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Any updates kmaster?

Last thing I saw in our news as a funny comic about how the media sucks.

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Well, we're getting a lot of aftershocks right now for some reason, and I have no water supply again until friday. Things are slowly going back to (some) normal, and it seems cities like Talcahuano and Constitución must be completely relocated. Military has restored the state of law and people are returing looted goods in Concepción due to an amnesty declared by the President.


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 3:00 pm 
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returning stolen goods, wow.


So do you just have water stocked up or something?


Also, you must smell terrible after a week without bathing... :eek:

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returning stolen goods, wow.


So do you just have water stocked up or something?


Also, you must smell terrible after a week without bathing... :eek:


yes, got water on bottles and anything I could find heh. I just try to take a shower whenever I can, lol.


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Aren't you close to the ocean? Can't you take a bar a soap, some swim shorts, and go wash up?

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Relieved to hear you're in one piece Kmaster, especially after the biggest earthquake ever recorded. :eek:



The most Powerful Earthquake was 9.5 on the Richter Scale in Chile May 22 1960 in At Valparaiso.

Final Question
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJmvfNEpkak

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 12:25 am 
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Snake Bites on Air wrote:
The most Powerful Earthquake was 9.5 on the Richter Scale in Chile May 22 1960 in At Valparaiso.

Final Question
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJmvfNEpkak


Wrong. Valdivia, not Valparaíso.


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