Two 98-year-olds survived quake:
BBC NEWS | Europe | "Two 98-year-old women are among survivors pulled from the rubble by rescuers in the aftermath of a major earthquake in central Italy.
One of the women, Ines D'Alessandro, told the Ansa news agency how she had survived another earthquake in 1915.
The second woman was found in the village of Tempera, near L'Aquila, some 30 hours after the earthquake struck.
Buried under the rubble in her bed, Maria D'Antuomo said she had passed the time crocheting as she waited for help.
Carried to safety by firemen early on Tuesday she reportedly ate some crackers and asked to comb her hair.
Ms D'Alessandro said that during Monday's earthquake her wardrobe had been knocked over at the foot of her bed as fragments of plaster began to rain down.
She was uninjured, though she said the quake reminded her of the one she survived aged almost four.
After the 1915 earthquake her family moved back into their house when it was pronounced safe, but it collapsed in 1918, killing her two younger sisters.
On Tuesday, she was quoted as saying that her heart bled for the victims of this week's earthquake.
'I've fought all my life,' she said. 'Now we need to have cour"
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
How Awesome Is This? "Two 98-year-olds survived quake"
Pretty awesome as a smidgen of good news comes from the earthquake in Italy, which so happens to be the homeland of my paternal grandparents where the tiny town of Felitto is named after my great great grandfather and still contains some of the brood 200 years later... Two almost centenarians have been found amongst the rubble being carefully sifted through days after the tragic quake over the weekend.
The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. H. L. Mencken
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Those old folks over in Europe sure are a hearty bunch.
ReplyDeleteThey sure are Rev, unlike the central American variety who've invaded out nation illegally from the land of siesta's who come here to rob the country of services, medical care and tax revenues while lowering wages across the nation's workforce.
ReplyDeleteWhat a country as the Russian comedian and immigrant Yakov Schmirnoff made a career out of saying a few decades ago.