First you need a cake.
Then you need an elephant.
Jello is tough for an elephant.
But like our warriors, persevere to overcome.
Posted on 10/19/2005 12:02:11 AM PDT by Mama_Bear
First you need a cake.
Then you need an elephant.
Jello is tough for an elephant.
But like our warriors, persevere to overcome.
That's absolutely brilliant!!!
I just know that was fun to build and to use.
Looking out my back window last year.
Ready...
Set...
Go!!!
It does. :( It says so much about the character of that mother and the kind of person she is deep inside to want to apologize for *her* behavior at the time she received the news that broke her heart. I'm sure the officers who have to deliver the sad news to the family never expect any other kind of reception than this mother showed at the time. A remarkable woman wrote this letter. Thanks for sharing it with us, CW.
Thanks again for your wonderful stories! What a life you have lived.
So happy to hear your hubby is home. What wonderful news!
Here at the same time????? So glad FR is back to normal. See previous post to lori! ((((billie)))))
/john
Awww......thank you. :-)
I have been so looking forward to your posts today, then, right before you got here, I had to leave for awhile.
Sounds like Alaska was (and probably still is) truly the wild, wild, west. It's statehood beginnings remind me a bit of what I have read of Australia's, both being made up partially by a criminal element. Very interesting.
I'll gather some more things to relate about Alaska Before The Pipeline - - will scatter them today and tomorrow on the thread.
Thank you so much, Maggie. I appreciate your interesting Alaska stories. I know others do also. :-)
Beatitufl table, beautiful sentiment, and a touching song! Thanks, LUV. (I saved your red plaid background to my background folder. Hope you don't mind. I love it. The color is so rich.) :-)
I'm happy for you and your family. Thank you for sharing the good news about your nephew's safe return from Iraq.
Thanks. Compliments coming from you, a real-life graphic artist, mean a great deal to me. And, I notice you seem to like text effects especially. So do I, that's why I have such fun with PhotoShop. I could just play in Photoshop all day....some days I do! Too bad I don't get paid for it. LOL
Isn't Alaska ruggedly beautiful? Takes a special breed of people to settle that area and live there. I enjoy visiting, but am afraid I could not last through the winter.
This great earthquake and ensuing tsunami took 125 lives (tsunami 110, earthquake 15), and caused about $311 million in property loss. Earthquake effects were heavy in many towns, including Anchorage, Chitina, Glennallen, Homer, Hope, Kasilof, Kenai, Kodiak, Moose Pass, Portage, Seldovia, Seward, Sterling, Valdez, Wasilla, and Whittier.
Anchorage, about 120 kilometers northwest of the epicenter, sustained the most severe damage to property. About 30 blocks of dwellings and commercial buildings were damaged or destroyed in the downtown area. The J.C. Penny Company building was damaged beyond repair; the Four Seasons apartment building, a new six-story structure, collapsed; and many other multistory buildings were damaged heavily. The schools in Anchorage were almost devastated. The Government Hill Grade School, sitting astride a huge landslide, was almost a total loss. Anchorage High School and Denali Grade School were damaged severely. Duration of the shock was estimated at 3 minutes.
Landslides in Anchorage caused heavy damage. Huge slides occurred in the downtown business section, at Government Hill, and at Turnagain Heights. The largest and most devastating landslide occurred at Turnagain Heights. An area of about 130 acres was devasted by displacements that broke the ground into many deranged blocks that were collapsed and tilted at all angles. This slide destroyed about 75 private houses. Water mains and gas, sewer, telephone, and electrical systems were disrupted throughout the area.
The earthquake was accompanied by vertical displacement over an area of about 520,000 square kilometers. The major area of uplift trended northeast from southern Kodiak Island to Price William Sound and trended east-west to the east of the sound. Vertical displacements ranged from about 11.5 meters of uplift to 2.3 meters of subsidence relative to sea level. Off the southwest end of Montague Island, there was absolute vertical displacement of about 13 - 15 meters. Uplift also occurred along the extreme southeast coast of Kodiak Island, Sitkalidak Island, and over part or all of Sitkinak Island. This zone of subsidence covered about 285,000 square kilometers, including the north and west parts of Prince William Sound, the west part of the Chugach Mountains, most of Kenai Peninsula, and almost all the Kodiak Island group.
This shock generated a tsunami that devasted many towns along the Gulf of Alaska, and left serious damage at Alberni and Port Alberni, Canada, along the West Coast of the United States (15 killed), and in Hawaii. The maximum wave height recorded was 67 meters at Valdez Inlet. Seiche action in rivers, lakes, bayous, and protected harbors and waterways along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas caused minor damage. It was also recorded on tide gages in Cuba and Puerto Rico.
This great earthquake was felt over a large area of Alaska and in parts of western Yukon Territory and British Columbia, Canada.
Close-up of Government Hill elementary school, which was destroyed by the Government Hill landslide. Anchorage, Alaska.
Collapse of Fourth Avenue near C Street, Anchorage, due to earthquake caused landslide. Before the earthquake, the sidewalk at left, which is in the graben, was at street level on the right. The graben subsides 11 feet in response to 14 feet of horizontal movement. Anchorage district, Cook Inlet region, Alaska. 1964.
Control tower at Anchorage International Airport, collapsed by earthquake shaking. Anchorage district, Cook Inlet region, Alaska.
Well, as you can see, I didn't spell check THAT post. LOL!
He apparently did, and he has. And I see he is still going strong. I love it!
Thackney, have gone above and beyond in contributing to our thread today. Everyone is enjoying your photos and comments. :-)
We will be here tomorrow too, so y'all come back, okay? ;-)
Awesome job on this Alaska Post MB! Glad to see you back in the saddle with your State presentations. :)
Thanks. We are so relieved to have him home. God has answered our prayers. :-)
Oh, my gosh...there was a real live moose in your driveway? There is something so comical about moose (mooses?). LOL
So glad you came by and posted that photo. I admire you for being able to live up there with your extreme weather. It is so beautiful, but I just don't think I could survive the winter.
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