Traveling through the Earthquake Area - Part 2

In Talca on Tuesday morning we saw gas lines several miles long at every station and people lined up for close to two blocks waiting to enter the supermarket. Window glass was out in many buildings. We had enough gas to go on so we skipped the long lines, and found a station just 10 miles north of town with no lines where we were able to fill up. There was no phone service either by cell phone or landline in Talca, so no one in town knew that gas was available just 10 miles away. We saw numerous industrial sites with damaged supplies, cascades of barrels oozing unrecognizable goo (possibly brown sugar syrup for the candy factory), lumberyards where stacked lumber looked like recently thrown pick-up sticks. We passed a winery south of Rancagua with ruptured stainless steel tanks - the scent of wine was strong even 100 yards away. Several grain elevators failed as well and the people we thought were clean-up crews turned out to be looters costing the industry additional losses. Most dramatic were the downed overpasses and snapped bridges.