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Cheryl Isaak · 30-04-2007, 11:33 AM posted to rec.gardens

On 4/29/07 6:26 PM, in article ,
"Ann" wrote:

Janet Baraclough expounded:

The message
from Ann contains these words:

We haven't been up to the house yet, we're going up this
afternoon if we can get down the road (one of the bridges that are
gone is on our road).

Hope all is well at your place when you get there.

Thanx, Janet.

Well, just got home and thankfully nothing is horribly wrong at the
house. A few large pine boughs down, a bit of seepage in the cellar,
nothing major. The road was passable, but had been totally undercut
and washed away, they've already got a temporary fix there (it's kind
of a major road for major roads around there!) and in another spot
half the road was gone, but semi-repaired.
Lucky you!

It turned out the woman and child who were killed were *walking
through* (!!) the Little River trying to cross where a bridge had been
washed away - what was she thinking! A man went in and tried to save
them, all three were rescued by boat, sadly the grandmother and
granddaughter were drowned ( I can't imagine why anyone would try
to drive through flood waters, never mind try to ford it on foot!

An EMT buddy of mine said there was some thing "off" about the whole
incident. No matter what, it is sad.

We got the fenceposts in for the electric bear fence for our beeyard,
between raindrops. It's still raining! Oh well.....
DS is still trying to separate that grass.

C