From the New York Times, I'm Natalie Kittrow F. This is the Daily.

Hello, Carlos.

Hello, my name after my colleague, Natarja, much.

How is this?

Well, I'm completely abutated.

Last week, after two massive earthquakes struck Venezuela, my colleague, Carlos Prieto, started calling

people there.

Carlos is from Venezuela.

He spent his childhood in the capital, Caracas.

But when he started to see pictures and videos of the damage, he realized he couldn't even recognize parts of his hometown.

So he asked people how it all started.

I was actually at my best friend's house, and I was going back to my house.

Natasha Villa was driving when the ground started to move.

I started feeling my car just sliding from side to side.

I thought that it was the feeling of when you're driving on top of water.

So you feel like the car is just sliding.

You could see people screaming and running out of the street.

You could see the light post and the electrical post falling down in the street and the

people screaming while the electricity sparkles were just going everywhere.

She had no idea how extensive the damage was.

I didn't have signal in my phone at all because the network had fallen completely.

With power outages all over the country and phone lines collapsed.

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