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Post by Mojo on Feb 22, 2011 11:47:51 GMT -5
Saw the news of the massive earthquake and thought of you. I hope you and yours are safe... let us know!
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Post by leerummey on Feb 22, 2011 11:52:51 GMT -5
my thoughts are with everybody there too
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Post by gasman on Feb 22, 2011 13:59:34 GMT -5
I hope you're okay, Rob!
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Post by rayden44 on Feb 23, 2011 4:15:34 GMT -5
well firstly, neither I, nor the earthquake was in Oz (Australia)  but I'd just gone on holiday in Christchurch, New Zealand. Earthquake happened 5 mins before we landed at the airport, which is fortunately not in the central city. Was stuck in a hotel conference room for 7 hours with lots of other people getting pretty regular aftershocks. Fortunately, we managed to get out of there and stay with friends of the family. Today we've managed to get out of the city, and are in Timaru further south, so should be able to continue our holiday. Crap way to start a holiday, but our problems obviously totally insignificant compared to others  they had another big one 6 months ago and were just starting to recover from that so this is a real gut wrencher for the people living in Christchurch. |
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Post by lesblues on Feb 23, 2011 5:43:49 GMT -5
Glad you are ok Rob, hope you do manage to enjoy the rest of your holiday.
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Post by Mojo on Feb 23, 2011 10:15:54 GMT -5
Man, thanks for answering. I was worried about you. Sorry for the Oz thing, I guess I was really worried that I fumbled my geography so badly  Enjoy the rest of the holidays. Crazy when mother nature chooses to remind us that we're insignificant, she does it in grand fashion. Scary stuff. |
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Post by gasman on Feb 23, 2011 11:33:07 GMT -5
Glad to hear from you, Rob! Enjoy your holiday!
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Post by pwfirst on Feb 23, 2011 13:53:37 GMT -5
Glad to hear your OK. Hope you can enjoy the rest of your time,
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Post by 469roadking on Feb 23, 2011 22:12:34 GMT -5
Glad you're OK man. Enjoy the vacation. |
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Post by rayden44 on Feb 25, 2011 3:17:37 GMT -5
yup mother nature always wins. No new people found since wednesday I understand which is a big shame. the september earthquake happened at 4am so everybody was at home and safe - no fatalities at all. this time it was at 1pm so everybody was at work or walking around the city. we would have been in the city ourselves if the quake had happened even an hour later so we were pretty lucky to get away.
holiday is almost back on track. maybe some fishing monday / tuesday
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Post by Mojo on Mar 1, 2011 0:08:20 GMT -5
Dang, close call for you. My thoughts go out to all those with missing or lost ones. Scary stuff.
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Post by Happy Jack on Mar 5, 2011 9:55:53 GMT -5
My Niece who is on a round the world gap year trip was supposed to fly into NZ the day before it all happened but no one knew where - turns out she flew to Auckland
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Post by rayden44 on Mar 8, 2011 1:15:22 GMT -5
Yeah international flights generally end up in Auckland - Where I live and our largest city. Flying back in 2 days. I have some friends in Christchurch, but they're all ok. The central city area that was badly hit is probably going to be shifted due to all the damage to the ground in that area. Big repair bill there. Although we are an island (infact a group of islands) we are the size of the UK, and not a small island like say Hawaii. So it's safe to travel in the rest of the country. Christchurch is a good size city tho, and was full of historic buildings - very english in style. it's a big loss.
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Post by lesblues on Mar 8, 2011 5:15:56 GMT -5
Yeah international flights generally end up in Auckland - Where I live and our largest city. Flying back in 2 days. I have some friends in Christchurch, but they're all ok. The central city area that was badly hit is probably going to be shifted due to all the damage to the ground in that area. Big repair bill there. Although we are an island (infact a group of islands) we are the size of the UK, and not a small island like say Hawaii. So it's safe to travel in the rest of the country. Christchurch is a good size city tho, and was full of historic buildings - very english in style. it's a big loss. Any word on how the world cup will be affected as a result? |
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Post by rayden44 on Mar 8, 2011 5:50:41 GMT -5
World cup will still be held obviously - too big a rugby country to not! It hasn't been decided what's happening yet with the games that are/were scheduled to be in Christchurch. The stadium I just heard tonight has some visible damage, but the engineers haven't finished checking so there's no official word. I imagine the affected games might be moved to Dunedin (where I am at the moment incidentally) instead which is a few hours drive south. Little bit of rescheduling of games, but I don't think it'll cause any major problems, we have many stadiums. |
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but I'd just gone on holiday in Christchurch, New Zealand. Earthquake happened 5 mins before we landed at the airport, which is fortunately not in the central city. Was stuck in a hotel conference room for 7 hours with lots of other people getting pretty regular aftershocks. Fortunately, we managed to get out of there and stay with friends of the family. Today we've managed to get out of the city, and are in Timaru further south, so should be able to continue our holiday. Crap way to start a holiday, but our problems obviously totally insignificant compared to others 
they had another big one 6 months ago and were just starting to recover from that so this is a real gut wrencher for the people living in Christchurch.
