As the death toll in Colombia continues climbing following the quake that rattled the western portion for the country, in San Diego the community is coming together to support the families affected.<\/p>\n
Video shared with NBC San Diego shows moments of terror and panic as a 7.4 quake rattled parts of Colombia on Monday. It shows students huddling together as they try to protect themselves from the collapsing buildings and debris.<\/p>\n
\u201cHeartbreaking, heartbreaking to see all of that devastation,\u201d Andres Rodriguez with Antojitos Colombianos said.<\/p>\n
As of Wednesday, the death toll had stretched to nearly 200, with hundreds more missing. The search for survivors in the rubble continues.<\/p>\n
In San Diego, Javier and Andres Rodriquez with Antojitos Colombianos said the devastation is personal because they still have loved ones living there.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou want to help to try and help at least your family or any member and say hey, I\u2019m here. It\u2019s kind of frustrating because you\u2019re here, faraway but I mean, that\u2019s why we\u2019re doing this,\u201d Rodriguez said.<\/p>\n
When they heard about the disaster, they quickly partnered with community volunteers to organize a donation drive and show their solidarity to those impacted.<\/p>\n
Since Monday, people have been dropping off food, clothing, supplies, and toiletries they plan to send to the families and areas affected.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only hope that we have is God and just pray and my prayers are also with them. I\u2019m trying to pray and that this time is going to pass fast and they\u2019re going to pass through it,\u201d Andres Rodriguez said.<\/p>\n
Organizers said the donations will be taken to Los Angeles, then flown to Miami where they will then be flown out to Colombia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the death toll in Colombia continues climbing following the quake that rattled the western portion for the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":997504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,12575,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-998143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-america","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-colombia","tag-san-diego","tag-sandiego","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117088310164546858","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/997504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}