OT: NZ fans

[RunDogGun]

Just wanted to check in with you guys to see if you are alright after that earthquake. If there is already a thread, mods you can delete it.

[ATTL]

Hope you're all okay

[bwgood77]

TASTIC seems to be fine...just saw him advertising T shirts he designed on twitter 5 hours ago.

[lilfishi22]

I thought TASTIC lives in London or has he moved back to NZ with the missus?

[bwgood77]

I thought TASTIC lives in London or has he moved back to NZ with the missus?

Moved back recently.

[TASTIC]

Hey chaps - yep I'm fine where I am - appreciate the concern.

Basically here's New Zealand and why we're a bit of a ticking time-bomb for earthquakes.

There's really hilly terrain across the country which makes for great hunting and fishing, but I'm 500 miles away from the epicentre of this quake - on a different island no less - and yet it still shook us!

Had a few messages from mates in Canada, the US and London so I drew a map for the last email (when i say 'drew', I marked out where I live in Tauranga and where the quake hit in Kaikoura):



It's pretty nuts. Parts of the towns and cities have been completely cut off and the sea literally dropped 1m in level - so TONS of sea-life was exposed and had to be rescued/eaten.

Check this out - this is what we call paua - in the US it's abalone. You can see these are usually well under water and you have to dive under with a knife or screwdriver to get them off the rocks:



Not to mention apparently the biggest news was that some cows were stranded and had to be rescued!!



Few more pics:







I'm not sure who has been in a big quake, but I've been in a couple. You hear the rumbling before the shake most times and it feels like you're drunk and a huge person is moving the ground. Simple as that analogy is, there's no other real way to describe it and to make matters worse there's been over 1700 aftershocks since the first big 7.5 one a couple days ago.

Wellington is our capital and state highway 1 and 2 were both closes in and out of the city - though i think they've recently re-opened.

So yeah, that's what's happening down here in NZ. Thankfully nowhere near as bad as the Christchurch quake a few years ago.

[bwgood77]

Spoiler:

Hey chaps - yep I'm fine where I am - appreciate the concern.

Basically here's New Zealand and why we're a bit of a ticking time-bomb for earthquakes.

There's really hilly terrain across the country which makes for great hunting and fishing, but I'm 500 miles away from the epicentre of this quake - on a different island no less - and yet it still shook us!

Had a few messages from mates in Canada, the US and London so I drew a map for the last email (when i say 'drew', I marked out where I live in Tauranga and where the quake hit in Kaikoura):



It's pretty nuts. Parts of the towns and cities have been completely cut off and the sea literally dropped 1m in level - so TONS of sea-life was exposed and had to be rescued/eaten.

Check this out - this is what we call paua - in the US it's abalone. You can see these are usually well under water and you have to dive under with a knife or screwdriver to get them off the rocks:



Not to mention apparently the biggest news was that some cows were stranded and had to be rescued!!



Few more pics:







I'm not sure who has been in a big quake, but I've been in a couple. You hear the rumbling before the shake most times and it feels like you're drunk and a huge person is moving the ground. Simple as that analogy is, there's no other real way to describe it and to make matters worse there's been over 1700 aftershocks since the first big 7.5 one a couple days ago.

Wellington is our capital and state highway 1 and 2 were both closes in and out of the city - though i think they've recently re-opened.

So yeah, that's what's happening down here in NZ. Thankfully nowhere near as bad as the Christchurch quake a few years ago.

That's crazy. I had seen a tweet of the cows. I was in small one in San Diego but obviously nothing like that. Glad you were far enough away from it though!

[lilfishi22]

I've only been in tiny tiny ones in Australia (yeah...) and Tokyo and even then you get a feeling of how little control you have. It's hard to imagine being at the epicentre of something like this.

[RunDogGun]

Glad you are ok Tastic. After I saw this earthquake I thought of you guys and other great Suns fans. I have been in three earthquakes, none were as bad as the one you guys just got. But the ones I witnessed were pretty crazy. The first one felt like someone ran their car into my house, and then the whole started shaking for about 15 seconds.

[lilfishi22]

It's pretty crazy how small and helpless you feel. You feel like with human ingenuity we would have found a way to mitigate it's effects. Humans can do a lot to change the land but mother nature can turn it all to rubble in seconds and there's little you can do about it.

[DRK]

[lilfishi22]

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