Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Still feeling aftershocks

It has been almost a week after the earthquake and we are still feeling small after shocks. They are nothing like the original quake, just minor moving that lasts just a couple of seconds. I have been out a few times and there are several building with walls that collapsed and more often brick fences that have fallen over. There are some roads that have large cracks in them also, but not very much damage.
The biggest problem the past couple of days has been the traffic. There is a meeting of all the countries in the Americas here in San Pedro Sula this week and security is sky high. There are armed military police at most of the intersections all around town and numerous roads are blocked off. Yesterday there were several police helicopters flying all around when Hillary arrived at the airport as the U.S. representative and during the drive to her hotel. I go to the grocery store on Tuesdays and I had to go to another store today because the one I usually go to is too close to the area of the conference and all the roads were blocked off. It's a big deal for San Pedro to have all the international attention, especially having Hillary here.
There is a large group from East Texas Baptist College, about 17, here all this week. They were here Sat. and every afternoon this week through Friday. They are doing numerous activities with the kids here in the casa and helping with homework too. This is the first group we have had in the past two years that has come back numerous times.

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