Thanks for the link.
Nothing about Pelluhue being washed away!
PELLEHUE, Chile (Dow Jones)–The massive earthquake that rocked Chile early Saturday and the tsunamis that followed it have devastated the Andean nation’s coastal communities.
Several seaside resort towns were severely hit by the quake and ensuing waves. Such was the fate Pelluhue, and its roughly 1,000 residents.
“The earth started shaking so violently that we couldn’t stand,” said Maria Julia Aguilar, who was vacationing with her husband in Pelluhue. They struggled to their feet and fled by car into the hills above the town. She said the air was filled with the tidal waves’ loud crushing of houses along the shoreline.
In one spot, the waves had harpooned 70-foot-high Cypress trees into beachfront homes, while washing other houses up onto the mountainside above the beachfront town. Plywood and housing materials littered the coast and floated offshore.
When Aguilar returned to the site shortly after dawn, she saw four bodies half-buried in the sand.