Devastation

Yesterday, we travelled south via Constitucion and Pelluhue, heading toward Pto Montt. We were bringing kits for the ppl in Pelluhue to put in their media-aguas.
What we met was unimaginable devastation. We have been working inland, helping rebuild homes.
But the people on the coast were hit doubly hard. At 3:33am in the morning they were hit by an 8.8 earthquake, and within 20 minuites of that they were hit by a tsunami.
The people in Pelluhue first had all their houses collapse, and then watched the sea illuminated by a big harvest moon pull all the way out as they had never seen before, only to rush back in with a 12+ meter wave, washing everything away.
What looks now like a beach front in Pelluhue was actually where 100s of homes had stood just 2 months ago.
The kits we brought had a cabinet, dishes, pots & pans, and a stove-top for the media-aguas (a.k.a. shacks) that the government has put up.
But this felt like nothing compared to the great need we encountered.
Please, please keep these people in your thoughts and prayers! The work has only just begun.