This must have come in after I went to bed Sue. On our news last night, we saw the helicopter crash in Oregon but nothing about this has come in yet. I'm so sorry to hear this, but I'm glad you stayed home. Keep us posted please. Angela ----- Original Message ----- From: Sue M <starshine166@attbi.com> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 6:14 AM Subject: [GEN-FRIENDS] more bad news > More bad news to report today, I'm starting to feel like I'm in a bad dream. > A tornado touched down in Pittsburgh, inside of an amusement park (about the > size of Six Flags). The park has been the site for the tri-county areas' > school picnics for well over 50 years. Today was our school district's day > (I guess over 2000 families), along with two other large school districts. > So far there has been one confirmed dead (eight year old little girl) 12 > children are in surgery at our Children's Hospital, and atleast 60 others > injured. The place looks like a war zone, amusement rides collapsed, roofs > ripped off of pavilions, cars over turned, etc. Praise the Lord, we didn't > go today, probably only the fourth time in my life that I've missed the > school picnic. Last nite the weather report was calling for thunder storms, > this morning's weather report said the same so Tom told me it was my > decision to make. I chose to stay home even though I felt so guilty about > having the boys miss it. > The tornado continued on its path and came within a mile of my house. It's > the first time in my life that I had to grab the kids, the pets and run for > the basement. > We're still waiting word on the victims, no names have been released yet and > it's been over five hours. > Sue* > Sue McAlister > email: Sue@Painter-McAlister.com > HOME PAGE: www.Painter-McAlister.com > Administrator for: > PA-PITTSBURGH and PA-WESTMORELAND-HISTORIC > Administrator for: > BALLES, ECKER, KELLAWAY, KELLOWAY, MCALISTER, MCCALLISTER, MCALLISTER, > MCCOLLISTER, SKELLY, PAINTER, PAYNTER > Administrator for: > Adoption, Mystery, Horror, Stay-At-Home-Moms, M-W- C, Nost-TV, Palm-Gen and > Westie > > > --- > > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.368 / Virus Database: 204 - Release Date: 5/29/2002 > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > Please delete unwanted taglines and signatures before > sending your message to avoid over-long messages. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >