Gone with the wind

holly shit!! I could have DIED today!!

If someone would have told me yesterday what was going to happen in the following 24 hrs I would have never believed it.

You see, there was a wind storm today here, and it cause a lot of damage to the city. I mean, a whole load of car crashes, broken signs, fallen trees, etc.

During the morning I was at that hospital, in the OR watching a tonsillectomy when all of a sudden the lights went off, I freaked out a little, then a couple of seconds after it came back (powered by the generator). We didn't gave too much importance to the incident, and continued with our duties. At lunch time a friend of mine wanted to go to the store to grab something to eat, so we decided to venture outside. The first -employee's only- door was closed and guarded by 2 security guys, we complained of the fuss for just some wind, and decided to try the public access. We went to the street ... and HOLLY SHIT! Right outside the door we saw this:

Next thing I know... the frikin' wind was blowing my clothes and my hair in all directions, I even felt it was pushing me. And let me tell you something, I'm a bit heavy, so this freaked me out a little. My so-called-friend (whom I'm still mad at) told me I was over reacting (ha!), and insisted in going to the store. It turns out it was closed, because the power went off in several blocks. We came back to the hospital to be informed that all non-emergency surgeries have been canceled, and since we were not on call, we left. On my way home I was so scared, the street signs, trash, leaves and whatnot were scattered all over the place, I felt my car being MOVED by the wind!!

I started to really freak out, but tried to keep calm and finally decided I didn't want to go home, and ended up at my university hospital. I really though it was not such a big deal, and that I was exaggerating as always, however I got a bit anxious since my two younger sisters were flying here to visit me for spring break. As I drove to the airport to pick them up I saw some disturbing things. Signs were ripped, trash was all over the place, all the traffic light were off, a cloud of dust etc. It looked like a tornado has just passed. I finally arrived to the airport, and it turned out there was no power there either, all the stores and restaurants were closed, the screens were not working and I could not know whether or my sisters' plane had arrived already. I waited for about 40 minutes, and then I saw them.

They told that the fight had about 20 mins (of a 1hr trip) of heavy turbulence, people were crying, throwing up, and freaking out. But since we're apparently young and careless we just laugh about it and went home.

The trip back was uneventful, no collisions or traffic jams... just the post-tornado look all around. It started to get dark, and I started to worry the power would be out in my block too. Luckily it didn't. (Really luckily, most of the nearby blocks are off) We unpacked the TON of food my momma sent me (:D) and went out to grab some dinner. EVERYTHING was closed! Even the convenience stores! We ended up at a Vip's, which was packed since it was the only decent restaurant in a considerably large area.

We came back to my appartment, I checked the internet and just now realized the magnitude of it all. Here are some pics of what happened just on the areas where I drive/live/work on a daily basis.


We're all fine, don't worry. If you want to know more details of what a mess the city was you can go to elnorte, or a small note in english here.

PD: I apologize for the writing in this post, I'm in a hurry but this is a totally dear diary blog experience, and I had to write it down.

** please notice how I crossed out that word, muajaja that was my VERY FIRST HTML WRITING EVER!!! I'm soooooo Techie