Thread: Did the earth move for you?

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Hey Kiwi buddies!!
7.4 quake? Yeow! Hope all of you are well.

been thinking about those guys every since i saw that they had a quake. hope that they speak up soon that all is well with them.

Thanks for the concern kind people. I even rung my X wife to see if she was all right, She lives in Christchurch now. On our local Hotrod Site there is mention of quite abit of damage at Craig Stares place with one car shaken off it's axle stands,his '32 moving across into his '27 T coupe resulting in damage so all is not well down there. The earthquake was only 30 kms inland from ChCh at only 12 km's deep so there will be a heck of alot of damage I would think. All those affected will be in my prayers...

HotrodTodd is in New Plymouth at the moment,so he missed it,but his wife and kids are all okay,he couldnt get home if he wanted to,cos the airport is closed till later in the day..Another bud and his family are squatting at his friends house for a while because they have no power,One of our ex local identities,Malcolm Rowse[I think Blow by should remember him] has been helping his son and family clean up,while Malcs 34 pickup has rocked off its axle stands too,and is resting on its front wheels,which he conveniently put under the running boards,out of the way..
Unfortunately,thing thing that has really burned me off, is something that VERY rarely happens down her...They have had a LOOTING problem,so I hope the police and the Army can get in to the city centre and stop this from happening..
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/
See if that works..
http://www.nz-hotrod.com/vbulletin/s...ead.php?t=5747

glad you guys and your families are okay.

Guys, Im from Christchurch, and its a major.

please send drums of nitro and as many old Hemis as you can get your hands on. If you cant find then, then send superchargers and Hilborn injections.

Im out of town so only heard about it when my wife rang me this morning. Nobodys been killed and the injuries, in the main, are pretty light. We were fortunate that it happens at 4.35am when most are home in bed.

The looters apparently turned out to be some people who took their chances and broke into a liquor store. But they are warming the pine at the local police cells now. Theres an army base about 20 miles from the city & they can supply all manner of stuff as its needed.

Most of the property damage is from brick buildings that lost walls, and from stuff flying around in houses. The sewerage, water, power and roading have taken a big hit. Te airport was closed for about 6 hours but its okay.

I will get home by about midweek to see how things are, but my take is that most people are okay, but a bit nervy (for good reason).

Apparently, 90% of houses should have their power back on by tonight which is good as its winter and cold down there. Some time back, open fires were banned for smog reasons and heatpumps dont work without electricity.

I would rather have some smog, than freeze to death.

Thanks for the concern,people...the other[semi]regulars on here live a lot further north from me,although a guy we know from about 40 miles south of me reckoned he felt it...but it coulda been one of his kids jumping on the bed...
Toddy,I gotta pic of a hemi somewhere..will that do?And ill give ya a gallon of two stroke mower fuel,but ya gotta come and get it...
Actually,it sounds like poor ol Craig Stare suffered some real damage..Cars falling on others,or leaning on others...

So glad that it's not any worse for you guys than it turned out ......... just thankful that there weren't any fatalities ........... keep us informed of your situation

Early reports didn't say how bad this was, but the local Christchurch NZ Herald paper shows how much damage there is: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10671049

and the Australian paper:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news...-1225914249704

Its been a horror day all round,with the earthquake,and a small plane crashed on the west coast of the south island,killing all on board,
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/
plus a catastrophe in Arizona too...

http://www.nz-hotrod.com/vbulletin/s...ead.php?t=5749

Todd,lets face it...Te Ika a Maui[the fish of Maui],and Te Wai Pounamu[the waters of greenstone,S.Is]are hardly the names we want to be calling our islands,,besides,half of our ''indigenous''probably cant even get their mouths around it...North Island and South Island will do the job...

The wife told me about this & asked if anyone I knew lived there, well you know the answer to that. Just glad to hear you folks down under are doing ok....joe

Originally Posted by TooMany2count

The wife told me about this & asked if anyone I knew lived there, well you know the answer to that. Just glad to hear you folks down under are doing ok....joe

Thanks,Joe..HotrodToddy lives down there,but not there at home for a few days,just his wife and family..They are all ok,but there has been some damage..Go up to an earlier post and hit on the links..the hotrod mag site has three pages of comments from some of the southern rodders..EVERYONE has been very lucky in many ways,in that at least no one has been killed,but there are a few serious injuries..one guy wore a brick chimney,and is serious..Perhaps the thing that has saved many is the time it happened,,4.35AM.There was no one on the streets in any great number..
Thank you all for your concern,,its very much appreciated..
Robin.

Here's a new article from the UK's Daily Mail - holy moly - you folks in NZ are beyond lucky:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...ches-11ft.html

the rest of the world needs you guys building codes.