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nadinbrzezinski

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37. Ok from the mayor of the city
Tue Mar 20, 2012, 03:04 PM
Mar 2012

They are checking the metro in one section, since they have fissures

They have fissures in about fifty buildings, and they will check them within hours.

Telephone service is saturated (and not accessible to foreign calls)

They have some walls that collapsed

Some buildings are actually leaning. 37 with fissures, 6 with damage low.

Now think of this, 37 out of hundreds of thousands.

One of the buildings. The high court, they lost the stairs.

The traffic lights, they have problems with the distribution of light, in six delegations, but they are already doing repairs. They lost lines and two main transformers.

They expect to reestablished lights to most of the city in three hours tos and no human losses.

City engineers are prioritizing hospitals and schools. The hospital system is working but will be looking at some damage to check for structural damage.

Guess what they are using? Tat useless twitter.

I am sure some in our press are not happy. This was a quake, 1985 was a tragedy.

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puts it close to Puerto Escondido? ProdigalJunkMail Mar 2012 #1
No, farther north I think... n/t ProdigalJunkMail Mar 2012 #4
Where is Malia Obama? n/t malaise Mar 2012 #2
In Oaxaca. nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #5
How do you know either of those things? Renew Deal Mar 2012 #7
I just posted in the thread the usgs data nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #10
Oh crap! Hadn't thought of that. Hope she's safe. nolabear Mar 2012 #9
It looks like Oaxaca is near the epicenter Renew Deal Mar 2012 #12
Oh, no. EFerrari Mar 2012 #14
Communication lines seem to be down nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #21
She'd better be malaise Mar 2012 #23
Here nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #3
thanks for the detail... n/t ProdigalJunkMail Mar 2012 #6
That far away should be safe - maybe they felt it. jwirr Mar 2012 #44
Oh shit, the communications tower must have gone down again nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #8
How do you know she is coming home? Renew Deal Mar 2012 #11
Call it a sneaky nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #13
Whats a sneaky? Ruby the Liberal Mar 2012 #45
Suspicion nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #46
Thanks malaise Mar 2012 #26
One tip for trying to contact people after earthquakes and such jeff47 Mar 2012 #33
The system is not overloaded nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #35
So that's why my monitor wobbled a little snooper2 Mar 2012 #15
Where are you? Renew Deal Mar 2012 #16
outside Dallas snooper2 Mar 2012 #17
And you felt the earthquake? Renew Deal Mar 2012 #19
not my body, but I swear my monitor moved snooper2 Mar 2012 #20
We had a little jumper nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #22
Map of Location for Epicenter ProdigalJunkMail Mar 2012 #18
Free clue to our breathless media nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #24
Aftershock nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #25
Mexican government is placing this one at 7.8 in the Richter scale nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #27
Media reporting surprisingly little damage or injury. cbayer Mar 2012 #28
The construction standards, especially after 1985 nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #29
Some damage trickles in nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #30
Good news malaise Mar 2012 #31
On Malia and what she might be seeing nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #32
Some boring photos of people milling around nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #34
Well just put on mexican news. nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #36
Ok from the mayor of the city nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #37
As expected, near the epicenter nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #38
Well this is extremely good news nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #39
Telephone lines are saturated. nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #40
Well managed to get through nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #41
Damage still minimal? n/t malaise Mar 2012 #42
Yup nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #43
Great news malaise Mar 2012 #47
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