They called out the missing man's name -- "Jonathan!" -- and his wife, Barbara Palacios, jumped with joy and excitement.She looked up to the sky and screamed "thank you, Father!" But hearing her husband and getting him out from under tons of concrete and debris were very different things.All around this one personal tragedy are the sights and smells of many others from that moment Wednesday evening when the earth abruptly groaned and rumbled with quakes measuring 7.2 and 7.5, in rapid succession. They killed more than 1,400 people and left some 50,000 missing.As the crews worked, Friday, it had been two days since that display of nature's power. One more day, and it is generally considered that a search for survivors becomes a search for bodies.Here in La Guaira, which in happier times is a beach resort for people making a day trip from Caracas, the air now stinks of death. Sirens wail as ambulances and rescue vehicles race through the streets.Palacios said her husband, Jonathan Suarez, a 36- year-old salesman, was inside a shop in a small hotel when the quakes struck."It all came crashing down. He tried to get out but did not have a chance," Palacios said with a quivering voice.Her eyes filled with tears as she tried to keep up hope. "He is alive. He is."But the clock kept ticking and the rescue crews could no longer hear her husband. Palacios refused to believe he is dead.'Driving by'The rescue crews had seemed to take forever to arrive on the scene, as was the case elsewhere in La Guaira.