On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:31 +1300, "David Mann" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 22, 2011, at 7:18 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: > > > Dave, > > Glad to hear you and your wife are both OK. > > I remember sitting with you in the coffee shop across the street from > > the cathedral. > > What a terrible thing to happen. Our thoughts are with you all. > > Regards, Bob S. > > Yes I remember that too. To be honest I don't know what state that > building is in, it's one of our historic buildings (the old post office) > so I'm a little worried about it. The CBD will remain cordoned for the > next few days at least so it sounds like I won't be working. My plan for > tomorrow is to get out and start shovelling silt off the road. > > We're getting lots of small tremors still, just had a really loud one > come through. I'm at home now. The power came on about 2-1/2 hours ago. > But we have no water, except the rain that's falling at the moment. But > we were prepared for that as we had stored 20 litres after the last one. > > Despite the much smaller magnitude this one was a quarter the distance > away, and half the depth. So the shaking was fairly intense. >
Great to hear that you and your wife are OK. We've been watching events unfold all afternoon (our ABC has been taking a direct feed from NZ TV). Let's hope the toll doesn't exceed the current confirmed number of 65. Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
