The funny thing about the news on TV here is that it seems to be hugely introverted. All the headlines seem to be about banks that have been robbed, children that have been found abandoned, oil and gas and public transport price hikes, in Chile. I think the only new I've heard about the Middle East on TV was about 3 weeks ago when the protests in Egypt were still fairly ripe, and that coverage only lasted about three days.
So when I saw this morning that we might be expecting a tsunami to hit today, it kind of sounded like Chile was being targeted by the forces of nature, and nowhere else. Because they really haven't mentioned anywhere else.
Thanks BBC news (and my friendly personal news services Daisy Walker and Phil Locker) for keeping me slightly more informed of the general overview of this situation outside of Chile...
What I did learn from the news today was from a geographer at the Universidad Católica, who was explaining how even tsunami waves of less than 50cm can still be extremely dangerous, because they can come in at a speed of one metre per second, sometimes one a half metres. Which is really fast. And is enough to sweep cars away, just from the sheer velocity of the water.
I'm going to go and visit Ary, who's in hospital at the moment, in a stable condition but on a lot of medication - she came down with acute diverticulitis, and this is the second time she's had it I think... But she's doing well. She has to be there for 7 days, resting and taking strong antibiotics and pain killers.
I doubt there's any atmosphere in Viña right now - people seem to be going about their daily business with normality, probably thanks to the forecast of its arrival.
We'll see how things pan out with the earlier places hit...
XOX
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