The person I knew who was in Nepal has turned up safe.
From The Bellingham Herald:
Three Whatcom residents in Nepal reported safe after earthquake
Three Whatcom County residents who were in Nepal when a massive earthquake struck the country Saturday, April 25, have been reported safe.
The trio — Doreen Richmond and Jim Lane of Lummi Island and Jeannie DeBari of Deming — were on a trek together.
Richmond borrowed a phone and called her mother Carmela in Long Island, New York, about 7 a.m. Thursday, April 30, to report all three were unhurt and in Kanchenjunga, on the border with India and far from the epicenter of the earthquake northwest of Kathmandu.
“They were there. They were safe. They felt some tremors,” Richmond’s sister Diane Lobasso said in an interview.
The DeBari's are long-time friends - met them when I first moved up here 12 years ago and ate at their restaurant many times before then while up here hiking and skiing.
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