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Post by Kwacky »

Earthquakes, volcanos and tsumanis

It must be tough living the wrong side of the equator :D

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unfortunately NZ had always been plagued by earthquakes, and one day the dice will roll the wrong way. I experienced some big ones in my time on the shaky isle, the worst one I was in the sports field at school and watched a wave rolled up the rugby field and about 80% of us fell over. My dad being a linesman was up a power pole 30 km from the epicentre and watched powerlines snap and the road open up below him, but got through it unscathed ( apart from some soiled undies!)
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kiwikrasher wrote:unfortunately NZ had always been plagued by earthquakes, and one day the dice will roll the wrong way. I experienced some big ones in my time on the shaky isle, the worst one I was in the sports field at school and watched a wave rolled up the rugby field and about 80% of us fell over. My dad being a linesman was up a power pole 30 km from the epicentre and watched powerlines snap and the road open up below him, but got through it unscathed ( apart from some soiled undies!)
Wow thst must have been pretty terrifying

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Experienced my fair share of quakes....first time you're like "WTF?"...then they're almost exhilarating...EXCEPT- you know that someone, somewhere fairly close, is in a world of hurt.

Was working in Redlands a while back when we had a really decent one....my mate started running downstairs, and I'm cracking up...."Where're you going??....Are you going to outrun an earthquake??"

Was funny at the time, I suppose.

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D6 wrote:
kiwikrasher wrote:unfortunately NZ had always been plagued by earthquakes, and one day the dice will roll the wrong way. I experienced some big ones in my time on the shaky isle, the worst one I was in the sports field at school and watched a wave rolled up the rugby field and about 80% of us fell over. My dad being a linesman was up a power pole 30 km from the epicentre and watched powerlines snap and the road open up below him, but got through it unscathed ( apart from some soiled undies!)
Wow thst must have been pretty terrifying

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I do remember him being pretty drunk when he got home. At school we all thought it was a bit of a laugh till we got back home to see the news and the devastation further along the coast. (this was '87 so before the web and instant knowledge of such things)
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