In article >,
sf > wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 15:46:24 +0200, "Giusi" > wrote:

> >None of us three are supposed to be in that area, which is about an hour
> >from Rome. Vilco is waaay north of Aquila and I am halfway betweehn Vilco
> >and the earthquake. That's not to say that one of them might not be on
> >holiday there. It's a fabulous area. The city is pretty much destroyed and
> >deaths have reached 90 so far.
> >
> The San Francisco quake of '89 was 6.9 and killed 63. We were lucky.

Yes. If the Great SF quake of '89 had actually happened in SF, who
knows what the death and destruction would have been? It occurred 75
miles south of SF (almost a two hour drive), in a large park about the
size of SF, which park in turn is located in the middle of nowhere.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA

"[Don't] assume that someone is "broken" just because they behave in ways
you don't like or don't understand." --Miche