Hi to all you very kind & caring people.It has been the scariest time in the 69 years I have been on this planet.The last 6.3 quake was the scariest as it was so shallow.Everything fell out of all my cupboards even my precious china that belonged to my grandmother.The streets were all torn up & most of our beautiful heritage buildings will have to be bulldozed. The sadest thing is the loss of precious lives.I am lucky to have my 2 adult sons living with me.They have been great comfort to me.We will all be glad when the aftershocks stop. We have had 5000 + since the first quake back in September.Thanks once again for your support. Now back to clearing the 4032 emails i have. Love Helen McNamara ________________________________ From: Emma Roses <roses4831@msn.com> To: memory-lane <memory-lane@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wed, 16 March, 2011 6:18:07 PM Subject: Re: [ML] quake I'm glad you reported in with us. I've wondered about you. We had a strong wind come thru here Sunday afternoon and we lost our power for 3 hours. I can only inmagine you losing yourss for 3 weeks. Be sure to keep us informed about all the nitty gritty stuff even. Emma > Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:21:00 -0700 > From: hennymac1941@yahoo.co.nz > To: MEMORY-LANE@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ML] quake > > Thanks for caring. We have just got phone & internet back on after 3 weeks. >We > > are in the middle of the worst hit area. We had no water, > > sewerage or power for 2 weeks. We still have to boil all our drinking water. We > > lost our chimney & had a leaking roof. all the roads were buckled & we have >lost > > most of our beautiful heritage buildings > > because of it.Love Helen > > > > > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >in the subject and the body of the message http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

So sorry for loosing the china, I know you have to feel bad being your grandma's. But again, this is only stuff and your life and lives of your sons are much more important. Glad you are all safe. I wonder about all this going on. Now the radiaton going on, I am sure we must have had fall out from the atomic bomb when it was dropped, but I was younger at that time, and of course we didn't have minute to minute updates on things like we have now. I know there were alot of the people in Japan that died of ratiation there, but don't remember about the west coast of the U.S. Louise ----- Original Message ----- From: "Helen Mcnamara" <hennymac1941@yahoo.co.nz> To: <memory-lane@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:34 PM Subject: Re: [ML] quake > Hi to all you very kind & caring people.It has been the scariest time in > the 69 > years I have been on this planet.The last 6.3 quake was the scariest as it > was > so shallow.Everything fell out of all my cupboards even my precious china > that > belonged to my grandmother.The streets were all torn up & most of our > beautiful > heritage buildings will have to be bulldozed. The sadest thing is the loss > of > precious lives.I am lucky to have my 2 adult sons living with me.They have > been > great comfort to me.We will all be glad when the aftershocks stop. We have > had > 5000 + since the first quake back in September.Thanks once again for your > support. Now back to clearing the 4032 emails i have. > Love > Helen McNamara > > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Emma Roses <roses4831@msn.com> > To: memory-lane <memory-lane@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wed, 16 March, 2011 6:18:07 PM > Subject: Re: [ML] quake > > > I'm glad you reported in with us. I've wondered about you. We had a > strong > wind come thru here Sunday afternoon and we lost our power for 3 hours. I > can > only inmagine you losing yourss for 3 weeks. Be sure to keep us informed > about > all the nitty gritty stuff even. > Emma > > >> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:21:00 -0700 >> From: hennymac1941@yahoo.co.nz >> To: MEMORY-LANE@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [ML] quake >> >> Thanks for caring. We have just got phone & internet back on after 3 >> weeks. >>We >> >> are in the middle of the worst hit area. We had no water, >> >> sewerage or power for 2 weeks. We still have to boil all our drinking >> water. We >> >> lost our chimney & had a leaking roof. all the roads were buckled & we >> have >>lost >> >> most of our beautiful heritage buildings >> >> because of it.Love Helen >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>quotes >>in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

  Helen I am so glad to hear from you as I have been so worried about you and yours.  I said a prayer for you and yours everyday. Now that you can email again I will be in touch with you.  Annette. From: Helen Mcnamara <hennymac1941@yahoo.co.nz> Subject: Re: [ML] quake To: memory-lane@rootsweb.com Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 1:34 AM Hi to all you very kind & caring people.It has been the scariest time in the 69 years I have been on this planet.The last 6.3 quake was the scariest as it was so shallow.Everything fell out of all my cupboards even my precious china that belonged to my grandmother.The streets were all torn up & most of our beautiful heritage buildings will have to be bulldozed. The sadest thing is the loss of precious lives.I am lucky to have my 2 adult sons living with me.They have been great comfort to me.We will all be glad when the aftershocks stop. We have had 5000 + since the first quake back in September.Thanks once again for your support. Now back to clearing the 4032 emails i have. Love Helen McNamara ________________________________ From: Emma Roses <roses4831@msn.com> To: memory-lane <memory-lane@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wed, 16 March, 2011 6:18:07 PM Subject: Re: [ML] quake I'm glad you reported in with us.  I've wondered about you.  We had a strong wind come thru here Sunday afternoon and we lost our power for 3 hours.  I can only inmagine you losing yourss for 3 weeks.  Be sure to keep us informed about all the nitty gritty stuff even. Emma > Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:21:00 -0700 > From: hennymac1941@yahoo.co.nz > To: MEMORY-LANE@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ML] quake > > Thanks for caring. We have just got phone & internet  back on after  3 weeks. >We > > are in the middle of the worst hit area. We had no water, > > sewerage or power for 2 weeks. We still have to boil all our drinking water. We > > lost our chimney & had a leaking roof. all the roads were buckled & we have >lost > > most of our beautiful heritage buildings > > because of it.Love Helen > > > >      >  > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >in the subject and the body of the message                           http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message       http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message