The Earthquate Disaster in China....

... was witnessed by some of our colleagues from Appstate, Bob White in particular. Here is a bit of Bob's first hand account in an article by Monte Mitchell of Wilkesboro that appeared in the Winston-Salem Journal.

“We all rushed outside, and for approximately two minutes, we stood in the courtyard as the temple swayed, the paving stones shook under our feet, birds flew in crazed circles, a background noise of rumbling unlike anything I have experienced in my life, roof tiles fell from the roofs of buildings around us, and we all stood in awe of an amazing moment."

Which explains why when I came into school the day after the earthquake, a day almost no one was at school because of the summer schedule, I found Marv Williamson virtually chained to his desktop computer trying to find out what had happened to our group. Up to that point he had no news about them other than knowing that Bob and the group where supposed to be right where the quake hit. Eventually the wife of one of the group leaders received a message from her husband that they were alright and contacted Marv. Thanks God.

Unfortunately tens of thousands of others were not so lucky.