Morela Luna waits for inspectors to examine her partially damaged house in Catia La Mar, where the earthquakes struck. Photo by AFP
Luna lived with her husband and four-year-old son on the second floor of their house in the La Lucha neighborhood of Catia la Mar, in La Guaira state, the hardest hit by the quaktes. Her father lived on the first floor.
"I still think this is a nightmare. I wish I could rebuild my house. I grew up here and I don't want to lose it," says the 23-year-old geography student, who sleeps at her partner's grandmother's house at night.
Two weeks after the quakes, engineers and architects are evaluating the homes in this low-income neighborhood, built by its residents.
They will determine which ones are safe to live in -- marked with a green sticker - those that need repairs, marked yellow, and those that are dangerous and must be evacuated - red.
