On Sunday when we were in Santiago we went to the area just outside of the city that was affected by hurricane Stan in 2005. It poured in the area for about 4 days nonstop and what they think happened was that the crater of the volcano filled with water and then broke, sending a massive mudslide early in the morning and burying the village and killing about 7000 people. We went to see the ruins, but were told by the local police that it wasn't safe to go see all of the area so we saw a little bit and then drove over to a temporary site of houses which was built by the gov't (with international help) for those people who had lost their homes in the mudslide.



What used be part of the school


















Deanna standing in front of one of the buildings so you can see how high the mud was











The houses that the gov't built for the people who lost everything. It was literally just a wooden frame and sheet metal. They built the houses on land that belongs to the catholic church. The catholic church has temporarily loaned it to them, but only for 2 or 3 years. There used to be about 700 families who lived here, now I think it's about 300









These were some of the more permanent houses being built on the land - for those who were related or a part of the catholic church