Earthquakes, volcanos and tsumanis
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End of days
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Re: End of days
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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Re: End of days
Wow thst must have been pretty terrifyingkiwikrasher 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!)
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Re: End of days
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.
Maybe.
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.
Maybe.
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Re: End of days
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)D6 wrote:Wow thst must have been pretty terrifyingkiwikrasher 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!)
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