Many thanks, I appreciate your kind thoughts. If your any good at fixing power, water, sewerage and can get the ADSL up on my newly re-connected phone line, as dial-up is really boring, I'd welcome that with open arms. I do have a petrol generator now but getting it was a real bun-fight and I was lucky to grab one off the trailer as they were being delivered to the hardware store. Believe me they went like hot cakes. Getting petrol was a case of queuing for ages miles down the road just to be rationed to $50 worth of fuel for the car and the jerry-can to run the generator. Wish I had my old Land Rover right now as you practically need a 4x4 to drive on the roads around here. But we are coping ok and there is a great spirit here with many people dragging their bbqs into the streets and cooking up their meat from the freezer and offering to all who come by as it's going off in their freezers. There's a artesian well-head in a local school that is overflowing as the power is off and is cannot be controlled, and I can get to it on foot with bottles I can fill by holding them under the running water. All this water needs to be boiled and I'm lucky that I bought a propane gas little cooking hob last time we had a quake so I'm able to do that and heat up food. It's just like camping here as you have to dig a hole in the garden for the number 1's and 2's too. It's OK, we are surviving and it'll all sort itself out eventually.
Sorry for this OT post. Cheers, Steve On 24/02/2011, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> wrote: > In message <[email protected]>, > Stev > e Rooke writes: > > Keep smiling Steve, and let us know if we can do anything for you. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > -- Steve Rooke - ZL3TUV & G8KVD The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. - Einstein _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
