Just back from town and there is minimal damage. One old building lost all of the windows on the second floor (first floor for you brits). Building is old but the windows were new! The old house we're trying to restore lost the top of its chimney.

Most shops are open except for a couple that are still cleaning up. We have one shop which sells exclusively very expensive, museum quality glass. It's closed and all of its merchandise has been moved to the floor. We looked through the window and didn't see anything broken. The pharmacy had some stuff knocked down but was cleaned up by the time we got there. Same for one of the grocery stores. The other grocery is still closed.

Apparently, we got the worst shaking of anyone. Our house is three stories tall and we were at the top. Most of the mess was up there where we were. On the lowest level hardly anything was disturbed. No one we talked too was shaken like we were.

We are having a very long aftershock right now. Lasted more than thirty seconds but did no further damage.

Think we're alright now.

Bev and Jerry