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