Day Two - At the bunker

At the bus to the evacuation center, we were told that there were 4 destinations: 2 Palace Resorts Conference Centers, and 2 schools. We were praying for the convention center. Whoo hoo. We landed at the Moon Palace. There was constant food, water and sodas. They had hot breakfasts and even gourmet desserts. The bathrooms were clean and we had use of the docks to get fresh air. The place was positively cold because they were trying to keep the A/C running as long as possible in case we lost electricity, but they provided extra extra sheets and blankets for us.

The place was fairly empty when we got there


This is Mike in our little area. Casa de Corriea for the night.


The other people's spreads:


I found this photo from the AP showing the people at the schools. whew - we were so lucky!


The only crazy thing was that when they initally put out the food, people were hoarding the bread, meats, desserts, and sodas. We saw people with entire loaves of bread and several liters of soda that they were in no way consuming. We felt that if the resort had just made an announcement saying that there would be food available all day and night, (any announcement, really!) they would have been less likely to have the refugee mentality. The one thing that they were horrible with was information.

I was in a line for 3 hours for extra blankets (tho no one announced that there was a blanket line or that they were distributing them, we just saw people come back in with blankets and went out to investigate) and heard different ETAs every half hour by a different employee. I think they were making it up. Finally, they said it was going to be 5 hours, so I got out of line. 20 mins later, the blankets came.