My thoughts are with those that have lost family and friends in Christchurch. Michael McAllister www.dig4ancesotrs.co.uk -------------------------------------------------- From: <nir-down-request@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 8:00 AM To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> Subject: NIR-DOWN Digest, Vol 6, Issue 30 > > > Don't hit Reply to respond to a digest message, but cut & paste the > specific message into a new email AND change the subject line. -------- > > Today's Topics: > > 1. New Zealand (Diane K. Hettrick) > 2. Re: New Zealand (Moira Draper) > 3. Re: New Zealand (Karen Hitchcock) > 4. Re: New Zealand (donkelly) > 5. Re: New Zealand (Andrew Young) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:03:15 -0800 > From: "Diane K. Hettrick" <dhettrick@earthlink.net> > Subject: [NIR-DOWN] New Zealand > To: nir-down@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <3308E77A-A4A1-40B2-BCAB-8537CF64D836@earthlink.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > Hello to our New Zealand cousins. > > What is happening now - do you have power - are you all right? > The news reports about the earthquake damage sound very bad, with > death estimates over 200 and more expected. > > Check in, please, if you can. > > Diane in Seattle > List Admin > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 07:27:28 +1300 > From: "Moira Draper" <moira_draper@xtra.co.nz> > Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] New Zealand > To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <000601cbd2be$28f73560$7ae5a020$@co.nz> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hello to you all from a very sad New Zealand. We live quite a distance > away > so we have no damage here, but yesterday we just couldn't believe the > damaged buildings and loss of life in Christchurch. We know a lot of > people > there and we have been so anxious for them. Our daughter is on a lecture > tour and we were so pleased to hear she had moved on to Dunedin yesterday > morning but we think our Doctor was staying at a Christchurch hotel. Last > night the radio announcer was relaying messages from distraught families > who > couldn't find their loved ones, while all night the flattened buildings > were > being searched for more victims. Happily there were quite a number found > to > be alive, but still there are cries from those who are trapped. There > have > had to be amputations in order to free some people but at least they are > still alive - sadly there are a lot of people missing. > > There are a large number of after-shocks, some as high as 4.7. > > Thankyou for your concern - Moira in New Zealand. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: nir-down-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nir-down-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of Diane K. Hettrick > Sent: Wednesday, 23 February 2011 6:03 AM > To: nir-down@rootsweb.com > Subject: [NIR-DOWN] New Zealand > > Hello to our New Zealand cousins. > > What is happening now - do you have power - are you all right? > The news reports about the earthquake damage sound very bad, with > death estimates over 200 and more expected. > > Check in, please, if you can. > > Diane in Seattle > List Admin > -------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 07:45:43 +1300 (NZDT) > From: Karen Hitchcock <hitch.nz@xtra.co.nz> > Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] New Zealand > To: nir-down@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <24873.22423.qm@web96015.mail.aue.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > ? > 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 > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:56:52 +0000 (UTC) > From: donkelly <ocollaugh@comcast.net> > Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] New Zealand > To: nir-down@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <513932572.1320117.1298401012948.JavaMail.root@sz0024a.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:45:09 +1100 > From: "Andrew Young" <fxguru@bigpond.net.au> > Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] New Zealand > To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <003701cbd2c9$037a0960$0a6e1c20$@bigpond.net.au> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > 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. 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