Some Good News Out of Chile

Some Good News Out of Chile

My previous employer has an office in Santiago. When I started work for the company, a couple of the guys in the office here in Tucson were transfers from Chile working here temporarily. They went home at the end of 2008. On Monday I talked to someone still working at my old office and asked them to keep me updated on the situation. I got an email yesterday just before I headed home.

The Santiago office building survived the quake. It has been inspected and has been determined safe for occupancy. Eighty-five percent of the staff showed up to work on March 1. No employees or immediate family members were killed or severely injured. Obviously, they've got power, telecom, and IT problems, but other than that, they're ready to do engineering work.

Chile's going to need a lot of that in the next few years. They've got a good crew there.