Hey, Tubeswell, are you OK downunder?

[Willabe]

I think your on the north island. From what I'm seeing on the news, it looks very bad.   

FWIW, I belive many around the world are crying out to the big guy for your people and home land. I hope you and yours are well.


        Brad

[Geezer]

Yes, I couldn't remember who was in NZ, but immediately thought about & prayed for those here on the forum who are (as well as all the folks affected down there & the country as a whole). Going to be some tough times for while....... 

Geezer

[Willabe]

This is not good that our friend is not answering.        Maybe he went down to Christ Church to help others?   :sad11:                                                                   

Tubeswell lives on the south end of the north island, the very tip, only 200 miles or so north of Christ Church. (I think)


       Brad      :homework:   

[DummyLoad]

Last Active:    February 22, 2011, 10:50:02 pm

[Willabe]

Thanks, that could be good news.

But what time/date zone is that, is that NZ or is that Dougs time/date zone from the fourm?   

     
          Brad       

[Willabe]

I think he's OK. He was active agine on the 24th early in the morning.


              Brad         

[PRR]

> who was in NZ

My family "never" leaves home, much less the country, yet oddly enough my Brooklyn nephew is doing a World Tour this week, networking his fledgling business and generally being young.

Like most Youth Of Today (any day?), he can be IMHO a bit of a self-absorbed jerk.

He hit NZ just in time.....

This is what's happening on his Twitter:

        * Cmon shake it up baby now. F*ckin earthquake ruined a nice afternoon w a book in the park. I'm 100% fine. Amazing stories to come...
       
        * Wow. The city of Chch is absolutely leveled. Helped some women thru flooding on my shoulders and helped one find her daughter.
       
        * 3 hours of slogging thru liquefaction and hell we got to the nursery and I got to see her reunited w her daughter. Wish I could do more 
       
        * Aftershocks continuing through the night. In NYC it would just be another truck passing by. Unnerving to know that it's the earth shuddering
       
        * Most of the places I've seen since I've arrived are pretty much gone. There are no words. The Chch cathedral is barely recognizable
       
        * My footage ended up in the hands of a talented and hungry group of designers and film editors at the local uni. Let's see what comes of this
       
        * "Keep calm and carry on" was emblazoned on my friends coffee mug yesterday at breakfast. That seems to embody the kiwi spirit. Admirable.

[Willabe]

Sounds like he did good. Good young man he stood up and helped.     

I was there for a week/week and a half or so 25 or so years ago, and I think he's right, their a strong spirited people.     

PRR, I'm very glad to hear your nephew is safe.

            Thanks for the post,          Brad         


 
   

[Geezer]

A girl from my church was there for the quake. She's working on the new "Hobbit" film in Wellington, but was in ChCh for a few days of R&R.
She & a friend were in a shop just before the quake hit. They walked outside, the quake hit, the building fell on her friend (another girl from VA) killing her instantly, while my friend was un-touched (although covered in dust & debris).
The shopkeeper they had just talked to was also killed, while his wife has a broken back & neck.

She has to stay in NZ to help identify the body of her friend, then is coming back to the US.

Tough times.........

[tubeswell]

I only just saw this thread. And thank you to everyone here for your concern. I'm not affected but like many kiwis, I know several people in Chch and whose lives are upturned/houses are wrecked by this 2nd quake.

I'm very sorry for your friend Geezer, that she came all the way around the world just to have her life end in that way.
 
Yes its a tragedy. And the constant coverage of everyone's misery on the local news channels here is somewhat numbing. Besides that my day job (land-use planner) is in local Govt, which has responsibility for civil defence here, so I have to be available for civil defence duty helping out in the national emergency centre in Wellington (which is manned 24/7 in an national emergency) and I have been getting situation reports constantly.  This will take a few years to recover from unfortunately - and in the middle of a global recession too.  And who knows, as there have been 2 bad earthquakes there within 6 months, there may yet be more to come... .  Still I'm fortunate to live in a free country where we at least have democracy and (normally) have a pretty comfortable standard of living, so I'm not about to complain.  You just have to get on with the business of living.

[Willabe]

Hey Tubeswell !

I'm up late and I see you'r on line.

How's NZ and you and you'rs do'in?

I went on Gog. Earth and tried to find the blues club you were tellin me about with "street veiw" but if you could give me the address I could find it.


       Thanks     Brad