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Spring '10 newsletter
Otherwise, all is well here. Winter is coming on and we're all busy laying in firewood.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
New STL car!
Our new Speed The Light car arrived in Springfield. We ended up buying it in Denver and Rhonda's parents (Rev John & Evelyn Goss) flew out there and drove it back!
Now we wait for the grill guard, winch, and lights to arrive and we'll try to get all that installed. After installation we will try to get it shipped to Chile.
Now we wait for the grill guard, winch, and lights to arrive and we'll try to get all that installed. After installation we will try to get it shipped to Chile.
2010 Toyota 4Runner Trail edition.
Thursday, April 01, 2010
Barricades
One of the things that impacted us when we first arrived on scene in Concepcion were the barricades.
It seemed every neighborhood had a barricade of some kind at it's entrance with people armed with whatever they could find (sticks, knives, shotguns) guarding it. They weren't messing around either, you either had a good excuse for being there or else. It didn't take long to find out what was going on.
The earthquake happened Saturday morning, by Sunday morning the looting had started in earnest. I suppose it started with people justifying their actions by getting stuff needed for babies, basic food, etc. But it quickly degraded into a frenzy of looting. Mobs of people entered any store they could find and carried off everything, food, clothes, TV's, appliances, even sofas. After not too long they started destroying what they couldn't carry and finally a few burned what they couldn't destroy. After the stores they turned to houses. Hence the barricades. It wasn't Chile's proudest moment.
It seemed every neighborhood had a barricade of some kind at it's entrance with people armed with whatever they could find (sticks, knives, shotguns) guarding it. They weren't messing around either, you either had a good excuse for being there or else. It didn't take long to find out what was going on.
The earthquake happened Saturday morning, by Sunday morning the looting had started in earnest. I suppose it started with people justifying their actions by getting stuff needed for babies, basic food, etc. But it quickly degraded into a frenzy of looting. Mobs of people entered any store they could find and carried off everything, food, clothes, TV's, appliances, even sofas. After not too long they started destroying what they couldn't carry and finally a few burned what they couldn't destroy. After the stores they turned to houses. Hence the barricades. It wasn't Chile's proudest moment.
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