Symons

The estimated number of excess deaths and illnesses from the EPA’s actions are likely an undercount due to long-term outcomes, such as cancer, that are harder to quantify, Symons said.

"That's all I was told I could say," laughs Symons now, having had the uncomfortable job of trying to show all was normal.

Julie Symons and her husband found that the earthquake caused a small leak at her business, Mitchell Grove, a wedding venue in Eureka.

“When George comes back, he’s haute fashion, beyond fashion. All the other boys are wearing a mishmash of Elizabethan or early Jacobean,” says Symons.

Her grandson Ross Symons said he believed her penchant for "Quavers and chocolate" had also helped contribute to her remarkable age.