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(Message started by: Korhil on Sep 5^th, 2010, 9:26pm)

Title: Christchurch Rocks!
Post by Korhil on Sep 5^th, 2010, 9:26pm

Pretty amazing to have no casualties from an Earthquake this big.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/lightbox/national/4096845/?KeepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=560&width=640

I was still making my way home from the pub when it happened.

---Martin

Title: Re: Christchurch Rocks!
Post by Fritzlein on Sep 5^th, 2010, 10:16pm

Speaking of New Zealand disasters, my wife (username Elmo) just read that the sky-diving instructor who jumped with her many years ago at Fox Glacier died in a plane crash while taking up yet another tourist for yet another jump. I guess if I were a sky-diver, that's how I would want to go... I wonder how many times he got to jump in his long career.

Anyway, as a pro-tip for dealing with potentially contaminated water, I was far too lazy to boil water in my two years in the Peace Corps. Instead I just put a capful of chlorine bleach in every barrel. Worked like a charm. Of course I can't say how much brain damage I suffered from drinking bleach, but at least it killed everything else that might have been living in the water. :)

Title: Re: Christchurch Rocks!
Post by Korhil on Sep 5^th, 2010, 11:33pm

on 09/05/10 at 22:16:54, Fritzlein wrote:

Unfortunately, I don't know how well the plane crash will be remembered. Sad for the people involved.

Title: Re: Christchurch Rocks!
Post by omar on Sep 7^th, 2010, 8:00pm

Some serious damage there. But glad to here there were no casualties.