Posts by Ross Mason
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He. Ratatouille anyone? Mousetraps maybe?
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Ross, from About EQC:
Yeah. Probably was one of those momentary "listen but not listening" moments during the day. But I do recall thinking about the number so thats why I asked...sort of...
(Edit) Hmmmm...John Key said on tv3 news that EQC had $6b in cash and 16b total.
Maybe I DID hear it afterall.....
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Thinking a bit: the Earthquake Commission says it has $5.6 billion more or less, plus overseas reinsurances.
Corrrect me if I am wrong but I thought I heard yesterday EQC had $15 Billion stashed away. That is a big diiference from $5B.
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But basically I've stopped bothering reacting for anything less than a five.
We'll make a Wellingtonian of you yet!
And a roving calibrated seismologist out of her!!
I wonder what's the different actions Emma partakes in for one at 4.9 and 5.1??
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I got the impression it went like this.
Reporter filling in time: There might be looting in the ciity.
Reporter to Police: Has there been any looting?
Police: No
Reporter to P: Is there likely to be looting?
P: We are keeping a look out.
News Break: The police are expecting looting.
Next Reporter filling in: The have been reports of looting.
Next Radio Station Report grabbing anything: Police have said that there have been reports of looting.
Reporter (deperate for an edge) Please please please let there be looting.
News Break: Damn, no looting.And on....and on...
Fact: Two people arrested. Reporter: WHAT? Only two? No rampaging gangs?
Re the Avon being high and dry. Bit of a bugger when the slope to the sea is rather slight and when a bit gets heaved up one discovers that the laws of physics in fact do work in Christchruch too: Water does not flow up hills!!
I'm waiting for the sewers that too have been lifted a tad and lost their fall to fill up and...well..."CD have asked folk in (pick suburb here and everyone upwind) not to take a dump." And by that stage, in all likelihood some homes will have become banked up a wee bit.
That will make the Heathcote and the Avon the only way out for the overload no doubt.
Anyone want to buy shares in portaloos?
Oh...and has anyone seen any cruisers doing the rounds and/or getting arrested???? After all it is the weekend.
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After looking at a bit more on the box.......6pm news etc
You guys didn't dodge a bullet. You dodged a bomb.
It's staggeringly incredible mind boggling amazing no one is dead.
So so lucky that it was the deadest time of the night.
But still the humour emerges. The guy with the fault through his farm.....will now be advertising it as rolling hill country.
Good on ya mate.
And the Big 12-hour-old Plasma Screen for the lad who got dumped on by the wall of bricks!!
Bugger.
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how to survive the next 3 or 4 days while crapping into a system that now leaks???
Yes Sofie. As in DON"T! For the sofites, a bag in the bog works too. - as long as the bog hasn't been unflushed already!!!!
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Rocky Road Please.
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Ha. Typing over the top!!!
hearing Kim Hill on RNZ explaining exactly how to make a temporary toilet
Good on her!!!!!!
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View from Pinehaven, Upper Hutt.
Good news, the cafes are still open and bacon and eggs was good.
Bought a gas element - for camping you know. Don't know why.
Friends around here, and me, did not feel a thing. I am pretty good at picking up jolts around town but this one seems to have been channeled down a track that missed (some of) this valley. What impresses me is the GNS earthquake seismometers around the country ALL overloading.My Mum in Naenae woke up and promptly went back to sleep and was unaware of what happened until i phoned. She has sister in New Brighton. All OK. How are the sewers down there? Mnetions of evacuating that burb on radio. Any more???
One of my family was the wedding happening in the ex-church in Durham St. Oh dear.....Bridal Panic no doubt set in but absolutely no forgetting the earthquake date!!!
I'm with the theory that this is Dogs punishment for offering 1.2 billion in refunds to cantabrians.
Am listening to TV One telling people how to collect their EQC damages. Oh dear....
Not being present at a TV all day but NatRad in the car while cruising, has anyone heard any suggestions for citizens to collect water, food, how to keep warm and how to survive the next 3 or 4 days while crapping into a system that now leaks???
The short periods of Nat Rad I heard had nothing.
Look after yourselves all youse down there. Thinking of you.
Stay warm.