[lace-chat] Re: evacuation

2007-10-24 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Oct 24, 2007, at 17:17, Sue Harvey wrote: has seriously made me think about all the important documents, deeds, insurance etc and to get them all together where they are easily accesible, All our -- important but small -- documents (birth certificates, marriage certificates, my

[lace-chat] Re: evacuation

2004-05-30 Thread Martha Krieg
I was once giving a final exam in the 1970s at the University of Michigan in Spanish, when the building was evacuated because of a bomb scare, and I think I recall another one a couple of years ago at the community college here, where I was taking a class at the time. No one anywhere is safe

[lace-chat] Re: evacuation

2004-05-27 Thread Scotlace
It is more than just the odd shell found on building sites in Britain. Unexploded bombs in a highly dangerous condition are not unknown and I'm sure the same can be said of Continental countries. I can remember reading, some time ago, the amount of explosive found by chance and while I can't

Re: [lace-chat] Re: evacuation

2004-05-27 Thread Avital Pinnick
Living in Jerusalem, I've been around real bombs a couple times, usually when they've been detected and detonated. I haven't been in the vicinity during a real bomb attack, although I think Miriam was around when the refrigerator bomb went off in Zion Square in the 70s. We had a suicide bomber

Re: [lace-chat] Re: evacuation

2004-05-27 Thread Weronika Patena
I spent a summer in Israel (mostly Haifa) a few years ago, and there was a big bomb scare - it was an organized scientific workshop sort of thing, and for the last week they didn't let us off campus at all! I got the habit of crossing the street whenever I see anything without an obvious owner.