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Over the past two days, Antofagasta has gotten TONS of rain.  The average rainfall per year is less than a centimeter.  Someone told me it was actually 3 mm but who knows.  Yesterday and the day before brought inches upon inches of rain.  If you live in Texas, it would be like all of a sudden one day getting a foot of snow.  in a day.  Many homes and parts of the city were destroyed and flooded.  We lost power for over 24 hours (moment of silence for the things lost in my freezer including breast milk!!), lost cell phone service entirely for about 9 hours, then lost water for about 6 hours.  It was completely insane.  I've never seen or experience anything like it.  It was part scary, frustrating, boring and of course worrisome.  We are all completely fine, but if you pray, please pray for those who have lost their home, their clothes, family photos, etc.  This apparently was the worst storm in history.  Very sad.

I didn't take any pictures, but you can imagine what it looked like.  The water just doesn't have anywhere to go.  The drainage systems here aren't made to handle almost any water.  Even the roofs of the houses aren't equipped for it.  Even our washer/dryer are out in the open (and I'm praying they didn't get completely ruined!).

Again, we are all safe and sound, so please don't worry!