PS where did all that sand come from?

You can see in one of the pictures that we have a pile of sand down beside our house. There are also other little mountains of it in the lawn, in the road (where there are cracks) etc. where did it come from????? How weird is that. Oh and the shaking lasted for about 1minute 20 last night - the longest 90 seconds of my life! And I ment to say before that during it I felt that same fear that I had in childbirth (crud, aftershock again). You know, when you can feel another wave of hell coming to destroy you and you know you have no control over it, and nothing can help? Yer, that kind of terror. And today I felt that same fear but it was compounded by the fact that I knew that 400,000 other people were also feeling that and even all of us together could do nothing about it. xxx