What a earthquake!

Fortunately i was in my home. I just got sleep when I felt the starting tremor and I thought "Fuck! I hate to be awake like this", then this little quake became a "super" earthquake and I got up immediatly. When I got to the doorframe I saw my parents coming trough the kitchen door (they sleep in a room outside). I ran to get with them and we stayed at the doorframe of the kitchen. We saw our van move one side to another like a horrible dance. In the meanwhile my mother remembered my sister who was on the beach with some friends. She started to cry.
The earthquake stopped and I went to find my Mp4 looking for some radio station which were broadcasting at that moment. I listened to Radio Cooperativa and then I hear that the epicenter was to the south (my sister was to the north, so we were more calm for that).
My house resisted pretty good the earthquake, some stuff fell down, but nothing important. We talked to my sister a few hours later. Just in that moment we could fall sleep again.
After that we didn't have electricity for 5 days, during that I went to the houses of some friends to recharge my mobile phone and my Mp4.
When we recovered the electricity I saw at facebook that the FECh (Federation of Students of the University of Chile) was recruiting people to help the real victims of the earthquake, so I went there looking to do something helpful.
I went to Paine one day to recolect rubble and others days I traveled trough the streets of Santiago collecting money to send to the south.
On those days I realize that the poor Town Halls couldn't make anything useful, we saw them overloaded and trying to do something useful, but they couldn't cover all the damages. This made me notice that the poor Town Halls can't do pretty much by themselves. They needed (and need) a huge "hand" from the State to be useful.
This is a son of the inequality that we live everyday here in Chile.
What a earthquake!