I've been getting emails checking in on me so I figured I had better write an entry just to let everyone know that we're all okay here at NPH. Wednesday there was a powerful earthquake (with a strength of 7.4 on the Richter scale). It's epicenter was in the ocean south of Guatemala, and some of the southern mountain towns were hit very hard. In many areas here, buildings are nothing more than cinder blocks shells with metal roofs, so they can't withstand a large tremor. At least 50 people were killed and over 10,000 homes were destroyed. It's the strongest earthquake to hit Guatemala since 1976 when over 26,000 people died, including several hundred people from our towns of Parramos and San Andrez Itzapa.
We felt the earthquake here at NPH and had to evacuate the buildings, but there was no damage. The kids all had to sleep in the sections on the first floors in case of any repeat tremors during the night, but everything was fine.
So thanks for the emails, we're all doing fine here and we're taking precautions.
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