Concepcion, Chile - Trying to report the Chile Earthquake has posed some serious logistical issues for journalists. Our entire CNN crew for example photographers, correspondents, producers all of us jammed into cars to sleep overnight.

We were not alone. An entire street was filled with cars doubling as beds, although a couple of local crews had tents.

The only other option was to sleep on the hard concrete outside the collapsed apartment complex where we were all set up waiting for word on any possible survivors.

We worked so late into the night in and around the city of Concepcion that because of the curfew we couldn't leave our area.

Even if we could leave, the apartment where our CNN crews were planning to stay looked unstable and no one dared sleep in hotels that were several stories high after what we'd seen and felt so far.

Instead we opted to wait out the aftershocks in the cars. Through the night they came; some light, others jerked the car from side to side making it feel like someone was giving us a hard shove in an rocking chair.

On day four there is still no electricity or running water for residents and as visitors the same goes for us.

In order to eat and drink everything has to be brought in. We were lucky. One of our drivers offered to send his son to get supplies everything from toilet paper to Tic Tacs, whatever he could find.

He had to drive for miles because the stores in the city are shuttered and those that aren't have been looted.

Just getting into Chile was a test of wills. Most of us had to fly to relatively nearby countries - Brazil, Peru or Argentina to name a few - because the international airport in the capital city of Santiago had been damaged.

The closest our crews were able to get was Bariloche, Argentina. From there our team set out in vehicles.

We drove over the most beautiful landscape including the Andes mountain Range and then through several very strict border checkpoints before we finally made it to Chile.

Fifteen hours later after navigating around several road closures and one collapsed bridge we were in the damaged city of Concepcion.

Here at least there are rescue crews and firefighters doing their part to help. In more remote villages help has not arrived.

It is a reminder to anyone in a place where natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes or floods occur often that nothing that beats being prepared to fend for yourself.

The rule in many places is to have supplies such as water for at least three days.

After seeing the situation here, when I get home to Delhi, India, I am going to the store to stock up for at least a week.

Posted by: CNN Correspondent, Sara Sidner
Filed under: Earthquake