[Smurfysmurf]

I know we have members in Italy but I am not sure how close everybody was to the major earthquake.

I hope you and your families are ok

[bwalters]

My Prayers go out to all the affected people in Italy. I hope all the forum members and their families are OK.

[SmurfingH]

I'm thinking of you all.

[Tojo]

Me too. I was watching the news yesterday evening & it was shocking to see the devastation in Italy.

[Max]

Probably I am one of the few who lived an earthquake.
Or better, 2.
One on May, 6th, 1976; the second in September, same year.

More than 900 persons died here.

So, you can imagine my (our) feelings in these days.

I'll never forget the dark horrible sound of death.
Other feelings and terrible stories are in my hearth.

But my message to our brothers in Abruzzo is that it's important to start again. The entire Nation is helping them. They are not alone.

Max

[steveparkes]

Good to see you are safe Max

[paolo]

Nothing happened were I live.
But these days I'm in Rome for work and this morning when I arrived in the bank and later at around 8 pm local time when I had just checked-in my hotel room we felt some after-shocks that anyway didn't cause any damage here due to the distance from the center of the earthquake.
I don't remember the '76 quake, but my mother told me that she carried me in her arms down the stairs in the middle of the road when it happened (I was 2).

[steveparkes]

Glad you are okay too Paolo

[Ritter_Schlumpfenherz]

Thank God nothing has happened to our friends.

Sending my heartfelt to those, who have lost family members and/or their home.

[Cassiebsg]

Only me to be so "spaced out" to not even know what's happening in the world... again...

Hope all is well with our smurfy friends, and my thoughts are with those that lost family and friends.