“I’ve had a lot of experiences in my life, but this one?” Neil said. “I don’t think anything can compare to it. They had the stretchers lined up by the tent, patients waiting for amputations. I probably saw 60 amputations while we were there. The doctors said they were doing 100 a day.”
And he lost all the money he’d invested in his latest crop of chickens. While none was harmed by the quake itself, Neil was unable to get them food at a crucial point in their development.
“And chickens, when they are not given food, turn on each other. Roughly 2,000 pecked each other to death.”