Thank you for the report Karen. We are here for you all. don ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Hitchcock" <hitch.nz@xtra.co.nz> To: nir-down@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 10:45:43 AM Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] New Zealand   Karen from Auckland here.   We have not been physically affected in the North Island, but we have family in Christchurch.  Thankfully they are safe, although their house has suffered more damage, but hopefully not to the stage that it will need to be rebuilt.  Our nephew was working repairing one of the high rise bnuildings which had been damaged in a previous quake - he is vowing to never go back to working on another one - he was so scared.   The country has been offered so much help from overseas with search and rescue teams from Australia, England and Japan.   There will be more deaths to be reported as time goes on - this morning's report was that there were bodies lying in the street awaiting collection - the rescuers are working to a plan so that they can identify where people were found.  There are already amazing tales of survival - and people recounting the fear they felt when it happened.   It seems that "down under" over the past six months both New Zealand and Australia has had our share of tragedies.   Karen -------------------------------------------------- 433 list members as of 1 Feb 2011. We lost a lot of members when AOL blocked RootsWeb in December, and even more when AT&T blocked RootsWeb in January. If you get unsubscribed, just keep resubscribing until it works. -------------------------------------------------- Searchable list archive at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/NIR-DOWN ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NIR-DOWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Karen You are all in our hearts and thoughts! Susan Sydney,Australia -----Original Message----- From: nir-down-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nir-down-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of donkelly Sent: Wednesday, 23 February 2011 5:57 AM To: nir-down@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] New Zealand Thank you for the report Karen. We are here for you all. don ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Hitchcock" <hitch.nz@xtra.co.nz> To: nir-down@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 10:45:43 AM Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] New Zealand Karen from Auckland here. We have not been physically affected in the North Island, but we have family in Christchurch. Thankfully they are safe, although their house has suffered more damage, but hopefully not to the stage that it will need to be rebuilt. Our nephew was working repairing one of the high rise bnuildings which had been damaged in a previous quake - he is vowing to never go back to working on another one - he was so scared. The country has been offered so much help from overseas with search and rescue teams from Australia, England and Japan. There will be more deaths to be reported as time goes on - this morning's report was that there were bodies lying in the street awaiting collection - the rescuers are working to a plan so that they can identify where people were found. There are already amazing tales of survival - and people recounting the fear they felt when it happened. It seems that "down under" over the past six months both New Zealand and Australia has had our share of tragedies. Karen -------------------------------------------------- 433 list members as of 1 Feb 2011. We lost a lot of members when AOL blocked RootsWeb in December, and even more when AT&T blocked RootsWeb in January. If you get unsubscribed, just keep resubscribing until it works. -------------------------------------------------- Searchable list archive at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/NIR-DOWN ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NIR-DOWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------- 433 list members as of 1 Feb 2011. We lost a lot of members when AOL blocked RootsWeb in December, and even more when AT&T blocked RootsWeb in January. If you get unsubscribed, just keep resubscribing until it works. -------------------------------------------------- Searchable list archive at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/NIR-DOWN ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NIR-DOWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message