hola buenas tardes bienvenido a la
ciudad de Mexico welcome back to Mexico
City today is Wednesday September the
19th 2018 and I am on paseo de la
reforma which is a massive long road
that goes all the way from Chapultepec
through Sevilla, Insurgentes,
Juarez up to Balderas aren't i great with
the Mexico City subway station names
fantastic so I'm going to be honest with
you originally I was playing or doing a
video in Santa Fe today yes the
long-awaited video from Santa Fe but I'm
exhausted okay I think I might still be
recovering from a grid girl at the
weekend on the subject of that thank you
for the awesome comment and I hope you
had a great weekend as well so I thought
it would be more relevant today and more
appropriate to do a video on the subject
of September the 19th which is an
important date in terms of Mexico
City so last year 2017 a massive
earthquake hit Mexico City causing damage
to properties residential buildings
resulted in fatalities injuries that
kind of thing and it was the second
earthquake to hit this city in recent
times, the previous one was in 1985
and I wanted to talk a bit about that
today as well as walking around this
area a bit more than I did in the
previous video I did here and you know
particularly my views as a foreigner
that kind of thing you know many of you
told me so much information which is
fantastic about what happened on that
day that kind of thing so I'm gonna give
my thoughts on it and one final thought
before we get going have you noticed
I've got that I've got a new jacket what
do you think about it I love it let me
know in the comments what you think it's
a nice sunny day in Mexico City today as
you can see for the first time in
probably about a week so I'm really
pleased about that and I'm heading down
to El Angel de la Independencia
I've been practicing that all morning
but I still get it wrong I promise you
one day I will get it right so it's
about 1:15 approaching that time
and basically there's an earthquake
drill around this time I believe and
last year when it happened there was an
earthquake drill on this day and the
actual earthquake then happened just two
hours afterwards so when people
I imagine would have thought that you
know it's just a part of the drill or
another drill so scary stuff so we're
going to go down there check out the
El Angel, Angel of Independence by the way
it doesn't take a genius
okay you can hear behind me it's about
1:15 1:16 earthquake alarm so drill
so I guess it's similar to a fire drill
because you know you've got a lot of
offices around here obviously everyone
all the workers are out on the street
it's all very organized so from what I
believe assume is that you know the
people holding up the little signs if
that I guess for the companies that are
in these offices to I guess get all the
people together which would be the case
if it was real earthquake so yeah
it's very organized and the buildings
that I'm outside they're like all banks so
city Banamex, Bancomer banks are
down they're continuing to come out
standing in groups
I guess waiting for instruction for when
they can go back inside again
okay as you can see I'm now in the
middle of the road
el Angel de la independencia is behind me
great view and I've got to say this
whole situation from my point of view is
a credit to Mexico City because I used
to work for a company back in the UK
where we used to have regular fire
drills
I know fire earthquake not the same
thing but you know in that case the
organization was disastrous and just
seeing this is immense everyone is you
know well behaved they understand the
situation there's people with megaphones
you know giving instruction that kind of
thing people are sensibly lined up
waiting for the instructions in terms of
returning to their buildings that sort
of thing so I'm very impressive I've got
to say, what a thing to experience
very amazing so the earthquake drill is
done I'm now heading over to take a
closer look at El Angel de la
independencia it doesn't get any better
does it I'm on this roundabout which is
horrific
okay I'm going to cross and just watch
out if you are here and because there is
nowhere to cross I'm possibly going to
get run over by an Audi right now I made
it
I was talking to a subscriber last night
EZ hi man who was telling me all about
when the earthquake happened the the
people of Mexico City really pulled
together and organized everything
riskier efforts things like that before
the army got here which you know and I
can't help but compare things to the UK
and to be honest with the exception of
things like terrorist attacks and you
know 7/7 things like that where
absolutely people pulled together and
did what they had to do to help people
basically I I honestly wouldn't think
that that would be the natural reaction
in the UK apologies to any British
people but it's just my opinion and you
know personally I think I would be like
that you know I think I would go out of
my way to do whatever I had to do
regardless of the risk or danger I think
we all have to think like that
but you know this is just an example of
one of the great things that Mexican
people I think and it's you know a
credit to them the fact that this was so
organized today and yeah it's just
awesome you know I've never experienced
an earthquake and honestly I hope I
never do but they really make you think
these kind of events because if I
mentioned 7/7 so on the day of
that I was in London I was actually
meant to have a job interview in central
London that day but it just so happened
that morning I decided that I didn't
want to go to the job interview
therefore I wasn't on a tube train that
day so you know
it makes you think what could have
happened depending on the decisions you
make back there behind me is a bit like
an exhibition kind of art works or
photos of the day last year that's
gonna have a look
you know what looking at these photos is
difficult not to get choked up and to be
honest I had to give myself a minute
because just looking at the pictures
it was only a year ago I
can't get my words out sorry it was only
a year ago so it's just unimaginable and
it's strange to think that it was only a
year ago and you know there's
one out there showing damage in a Obrera
which is literally two minutes from where I'm
staying very close to doctores and it's
clear that the earthquake also affected
surrounding areas in Puebla places like
that and the thing about this,
sorry to go on about it but I think it's really
important to talk about there's the
amount of photos of civilians helping
with rescue efforts things like that it
really hits you there because it's
unimaginable as I keep saying in terms
of what the people must have experienced
at the time and it was only a year ago
yeah I'm gonna stop now before I get any
more emotional but they take a look at
this when you're here because it really
is an eye-opener
while I'm literally gonna burst into
tears any moment now not just because of
what I've just looked at but the guys
behind me I love classical music that
guy is playing an oboe I played the
clarinet for six years and it's
something that I've been thinking about
taking up again I would love to get an
oboe there's people in the way now
listen they're so you see them yeah I
love it
I could stand there all day watching
these guys when by the way just when you
see people like performing like there's
me want to film them take photos make
sure you give them some money because
you know they're doing a great job
estoy muy cansado mucho calor yes
walking around Mexico City muy difícil
it's very difficult I'm very hot I'm
very tired so I'm gonna go home now I've
had an interesting afternoon I've burned
a lot of things it's put into
perspective I guess once again it's
another example of that spirit that I
described in the El Grito video you know
that collective feeling of that
everyone will help each other in this
awesome City it's time to get the subway
now I'm holding my jeans up because they
keep falling down maybe I need to eat
more tacos and my big good idea and
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now I'm gonna tell you something
shocking I'm leaving Mexico City
what don't panic I'll be back in like 10
days I'm going to Guadalajara on
Saturday potentially Guanajuato and then
I'm back in CD MX for a couple of days
before going to Puebla for about four
days after that I be back so stay tuned
for those videos thank you for watching
as always and I'll catch you later