We have just completed our move to Ecuador and our closest larger town is Bahia. Guess we should have picked the Salinas area for a beach retirement, but who can predict Mother Nature? Our condo complex has some damage but it could have been a lot worse. Our HOA president had the foresight to purchase insurance (uncommon here, it seems) so we hope the repair will be covered. In the meantime, we can live with the cracks. A government inspector deemed our building “habitable”.
I had not heard that the hospital in Bahia was destroyed, Jim Santos? None of our neighbors are here at the moment for me to ask. I know you are a long way from here, but do you know what the nearest full-service hospital is to this area? I’d like to be prepared just in case.
It was sad to see half the buildings gone or partially destroyed in the little town of Canoa just down the road from us. I think not using rebar in the concrete blocks makes the buildings much more vulnerable.
.
