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Date Posted: 18:58:47 02/03/03 Mon
Author: Kim
Subject: Re: News from Kellie re: the Columbia
In reply to: Cindy C 's message, "Re: OT, the space shuttle/We heard the explosion" on 11:11:53 02/02/03 Sun

I spoke with Kellie on the phone this morning and she told me about how on Saturday morning, she was getting ready to head out for the day, and her hubby was reading the paper I think she said. All of a sudden there was a colossal BOOM and they actually thought someone's house (or possibly an oil well) had exploded off the face of the earth. They both ran outside but couldn't see anything unusual going on. They had no radio or TV on and so it wasn't until she was at someone else's home fifteen minutes later that she found out that the shuttle had exploded. She said she wasn't really excited at that point to be driving down one of the highways, just in case debris was still falling to the ground!

In any case, she is doing just fine (Hong Kong flu notwithstanding!) and did not suffer a direct hit from Columbia. I told her that while watching a US affiliate's coverage on one of our Canadian TV stations, the American newsman was having a hard time pronouncing where debris had been found, Nacogdoches. "And in Naca, Nacadi ...ahem, in Eastern Texas debris from Columbia has been located." She got a kick out of that.

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[> [> [> Re: News from Kellie re: the Columbia /Kim and Jennifer -- Cindy C, 21:10:19 02/03/03 Mon

Thanks Jennifer, for including me in your thoughts on Saturday. I appreciate that! We have learned last night that we have debris about 15 miles up the road from us, and I think in my other post I had told all of you about another spot that is 20 miles away..., and they were to close the schools there and in a few other districts until the debris was secured,but they feel that there is no contamination, which is a great relief. Kim, Thanks to you too for updating us on Kellie! I have been thinking of her a lot the last several days, and I know she isn't on much, although every now and then I get a nice email from her. From what I understand..there is a lot of debris down in her neck of the woods, and I am shocked too, tho, that she actually heard the boom. I guess the shuttle was still exploding once it got to her area, but I guess that is because that the distance from where I am, although a couple of hundred miles to where Kellie is..is just a minute or so in time, as fast as the shuttle goes. Gosh, I hope you can understand what I just said, because that was a hard sentence to write! LOL. It is sad to hear about them finding body parts now.. so hard to even fathom that they also fell to the earth. This is just so tragic.

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