The New Madrid Fault and Mississippi Valley Earthquake in the 1800's was in the Tennessee area, wasn't it. I need to do some re-reading about it. Looking at the horrible aftermath of the Japan earthquake made me wonder if the earth didn't look like that after the flood of Noah's day. My son sent me this web site.....toggle the photos and see the areas in Japan before and after the tsunami - http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/japan-quake-2011/beforeafter.htm juanita > Miz Helen, did you ever think about moving ? We've been here on this > ridge more than 25 years and not a single earthquake , as far as I can > remember,....Couple of tornadoes got close enough to scare us, but NO > earthquakes...SO many aftershocks is bound to shake loose already > loose stuff.....We'll hold you in our thoughts and in our > hearts...Love, Jeannie T PS: Could you save the broken china and maybe > make a collage of some sort ? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~~ ~~~~~ On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:34:27 -0700 (PDT) Helen Mcnamara > <hennymac1941@yahoo.co.nz> writes: > 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 > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > Obama Urges Refinance > If you owe under $729k you probably qualify for Obama's Refi > Programs > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d804eb991f9af4cdm06duc > > > > > > 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