Waiting for news about loved ones in the Mexico earthquake zone can be agonizing, especially when you're thousands of miles away and nobody is answering their phones A local man, who was born in Mexico City, explains how it took him almost 24 hours before the first messages from relatives came through and what that feel is like
Half an hour after the 71 magnitude earthquake hit near Mexico City, Spokane resident Ivan Torres hit Facebook, What's App and any other way he could, to find check on his family And I just started texting and nobody would get back to me, His parents are in the states but he has aunts, uncles and cousins in Mexico City Si, primo Gracias por preguntar, A difficult wait for Torres as pictures of the devastation kept flooding the news
I'm just worried about a few friends that are stuck inside a building, Eventually, messages started to get through Oh yeah it took a long time because, there's still some areas, I believe, that there's no power, Some messages were encouraging, others like one from his uncle, were very concerning The one in gray there's where he says, 'I don't know about my daughters,' Coincidentally, Torres was born in Mexico City in 1985 He was only months old when a 81 magnitude quake killed thousands in the area
His family remembers that one and won't forget this one either They said it was scary, I mean panic Basically, everybody just went outside, some where holding onto cars some where holding onto each other, Thankfully all his relatives survived the disaster Now they're helping clean up and dig out Where my uncle works they have to assess the building because of the cracks, It's a process that's just getting started and a rebuild that could take months, even years
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