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    1. [MORAY-CGA] Re: MORAY-CGA-D Digest V02 #13
    2. Shirleyb
    3. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the availability of aerial photos on the web, I suggest you visit http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/default.asp If you are looking for a photo of the Hardin Cemetery, post flood, click on Advanced Find. Click on address search. Enter the city, Hardin, and the state, MO. You will get this result: 1 - Hardin, Missouri USGS Aerial Photograph 15 Mar 1996 USGS Topo Map 1 Jul 1980 Click on the 1996 photo choice. Once there, you can follow the screen prompts to explore the area. Or you can go directly to this link to see the cemetery. http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=11&T=1&X=1073&Y=10866&Z=15&W=0 Once there you can zoom in to various parts of the cemetery for closer looks. http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=10&T=1&X=2147&Y=21733&Z=15&W=0 The next link shows the large "blew hole" dividing the cemetery. All the graves that were in this area were washed away. http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=10&T=1&X=2147&Y=21732&Z=15&W=0 One report is quoted below: "During the Midwest Floods of 1993, members of the Missouri Funeral Directors Association Disaster Response Team stepped in to help the National Guard retrieve and identify burial vaults that had been disturbed by flood waters and cemetery erosion. Especially hard hit was the Hardin Cemetery in Ray County, Missouri, where 550 graves had been uncovered. Many of the vaults were spotted nearby floating in the flood waters. One was even recovered thirteen miles from the cemetery! " Read more about blew holes here. http://www.amrivers.org/therivermonitor/blewholes.htm

    01/23/2002 02:09:34