teddywood1
Well-Known Member
I do hope that our New Zealand Members on the south Island are ok after the 7.9 magnitude earth quake at 11.03 their time 18.03 our time today are ok
Glad to hear that you guys are OK.
Just looking on the USGS Earthquake map New Zealand is getting hammered in the last two day. Wishing our Commonwealth cousins well
My daughter works for Geisen Wines and their Marlborough vineyard has been hit hard - so Cloudy Bay will have been as wellI have driven that coast road a couple of times on the way from Christchurch to Cloudy Bay Winery - based on the time it took to stabilise and repair the landslip up at Kawakawa Bay where my Bro in Law lives - it'll be a bit more than two years - complete sections of road have just disappeared into the sea - others buried in unstable debris - and the railway literally wiped of the land and thrown into the sea in places. Poor old NZ!!
Reminds me of a surreal moment I had on North Island in torrential rain driving a Maui Campervan - looked to the right and saw a group of trees sliding down the hillside to spill onto the road behind me!!!
For a quiet sleepy little place, there's definitely never a dull momentLove NZ
There was some great chat on the Paul Henry breakfast show this morning as to which one you'd want to be evacuated on. I think the best suggestion was the US one for breakfast, but then get transferred to the Canadian one because the US boats are dry.Kaikoura is going to look like a naval base soon. NZ has two frigates there now, with another one and a tanker on the way. US and Australia are sending two destroyers, Canada, Japan and Singapore have ships on the way as well.
One maritime nation appears to be absent!
Reason for the Navy presence is that many Navies are scheduled to be in Auckland for the 75th Anniversary of the NZ Navy, which was established to support the Empire.
lol, they have got to be the most famous cows in the world! They need an agent