In Cali, life depends on it not raining. In front of a pile of rubble that until three days ago was a seven-story building, residents of the Cuarto de Legua neighborhood make the sign of the cross and look to the sky, as if salvation or doom might come down from there. Others lift their eyes to the treetops, hoping the clouds will keep passing by. In Colombia’s third most populous city, and one of the hardest hit by Monday’s earthquake, at least two weeks have gone by without a drop of water. Now, amid the city’s worst emergency in decades, the weather determines fates: those of the displaced who spend their nights outdoors, and those who may still be trapped under the rubble.
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