Bastard earthquake!

[Oakie]

Something else which is REAL inportant, but no one seems to mention it is CASH.
My step son was in Chch when the Feb quake hit them.
He had no cell coverage and there was no power at the local stores for 2 days so no eft pos only cash was allowed.
We take it for granted that our cards,cell phones etc work but tell that to your local indian dairy owner when there are cues for food!!!

Don't tell anyone but I have $300 cash in my sock draw. It's actually my bike tyre / bike repair /fines fund and it increases by $20 a week but it doubles as our emergency cash fund in case we have to run. Oh yeah ... and I have our emergency 'get the hell out of here' bag by the front door. It got all the normal emergency stuff and while I'll just dump whatever food I can quickly throw into it as we run by the pantry ... I also have a block of this in the bottom http://survivorind.com/3600.html A day and a half worth of survival level nutrition. It's the stuff they put in lifeboats. Cost me about $17 I think.

[pete376403]

We should have a sticky on how to prepare and deal with an earthquake ( also what happens AFTER , stress etc )

Stephen

My wife does childcare for PORSE and one of the things we had to do (to be allowed to do the childcare) was secure anything that might fall down and hurt the nippers. While I considered it (at thetime) as wasted effort, absolutley nothing fell down during the quakes. A bit of wire, a few screws and a knob of bluetack make a lot of difference. When I saw on the news about the liquor store owner moaning that a $4000 bottle of brandy got smashed when a cabinet fell down - would have taken less than 10 minutes to secure that cabinet to the wall

[Oakie]

My wife does childcare for PORSE and one of the things we had to do (to be allowed to do the childcare) was secure anything that might fall down and hurt the nippers. While I considered it (at thetime) as wasted effort, absolutley nothing fell down during the quakes. A bit of wire, a few screws and a knob of bluetack make a lot of difference.

Yeah, I'd earthquake-safed our house about 6 months prior to the Sept 2010 event and bloody glad I did. I was shocked at how much the brackets that I'd secured our wall unit with had twisted when I checked them after the big February shake.

[Brian d marge]

Something else which is REAL inportant, but no one seems to mention it is CASH.
My step son was in Chch when the Feb quake hit them.
He had no cell coverage and there was no power at the local stores for 2 days so no eft pos only cash was allowed.
We take it for granted that our cards,cell phones etc work but tell that to your local indian dairy owner when there are cues for food!!!

Thats what I was trying to point out , but steering people towards those nutty urban survivalist videos

After you get past the nut jobs in camo thinking ww3 is coming, there are some good ideas the video links I provided, while completely over the top also mentioned "having $1000" in various types of notes and coins

Also , the it doesnt just sit there , u use it and replace it , so buy a new tyre , have 200 left over , its better than nowt

Same with food and water

Just looked at mine its a biggish bum bag ,( ooeeerr titter ye not missus) ..has fire making. shelter making 10 litres of water and food and food preperation , for one , but could , at a stretch , do for the family .

enough for 72 hours or at a stretch 3 days , ( water is kept in a collapsable water carrier bag and I have a 10 litre platapus bladder in the bum bag )

that is the grab and run bag

The long term one is the camping gear ,,,,

Finally , what astounds me is , that ( almost ) every year NZ , down south has these "record" snow/flood /winds , OMG the biggest ,in ,,,years ,
Every year you hear these stories of , """we have been without power ,,,and .... and "

Call me stupid and/or thinking out of the square , here but I would have a small portable generator ....of some sorts ( using a fuel that was commonly used , gasoline in my case )

Dibb dibb dob dob dob , be prepared sometime the gold card just doent cut it !

Stephen

[Brian d marge]

My wife does childcare for PORSE and one of the things we had to do (to be allowed to do the childcare) was secure anything that might fall down and hurt the nippers. While I considered it (at thetime) as wasted effort, absolutley nothing fell down during the quakes. A bit of wire, a few screws and a knob of bluetack make a lot of difference. When I saw on the news about the liquor store owner moaning that a $4000 bottle of brandy got smashed when a cabinet fell down - would have taken less than 10 minutes to secure that cabinet to the wall

We had a small shake a few years back , had just built a new house to the latest codes ( as req) ONE door is out of alignment by about a mm or 2 , the new houses perform really well .....

I should do the cupboard and the fish tank , but if the cupboard fell , as it did when the bastard kids decided to climb it ..it just hits the sink , so actually makes a nice safe area , the fish ,,,,, how much meat on a three year old gold fish? have some spuds in the garden,,,,,,,just a thought

Stephen

[Oakie]

enough for 72 hours or at a stretch 3 days ,

Dude!

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[Naki Rat]

HAARP is a fabled US device that is supposed to produce a EMP but the yanks are just as scared of another conspiracy theory of a Korean battleship that is supposed to have a similar system

When the big displays of the southern lights were happening back in the nineties there was plenty of talk and warnings about EMP from solar discharge.

Though the moon is just on its full at present so it could have had a contributing factor in things

One thing with this series of shake-ups is be thankful the epicentres were off shore

Full moon last night and perigee yesterday morning. Hmmm

[Oakie]

Full moon last night and perigee yesterday morning. Hmmm

Well I guess you're never more than 14 days from a full moon (previous or next) are you.

[Oakie]

Oh, for what it's worth, after our September quake when this moon crap was raised I charted the last four years of earthquakes reported in NZ. I finished up with a series of dates with bars indicating the number of quakes on a given day. On top of that I overlaid the full moon dates for that 4 years. There was no spike of quakes around full moons in that four years. There were peaks and flurries through the period they didn't match the full moons. It's a load of bovine excrement.

[oldrider]

The moon's always there full or not only counts by how much sun is shining on it reflecting back onto earth FFS!

The alignment and distance from earth of the moon and all the other planets is apparently what makes the difference.

Scientists have no more idea when and where earthquakes are going to happen than Ken Ring does but at least they are all still working on it!

So maybe one of them will get it right one day.

[Berries]

The moon's always there full or not only counts by how much sun is shining on it reflecting back onto earth FFS!

Ha ha, never thought of it like that but quite obvious really.

(But just planted all of my chili seeds for next season to take account of the full moon tonight anyway)

[T.W.R]

(But just planted all of my chili seeds for next season to take account of the full moon tonight anyway)

that's way early, hope their going to be somewhere warm whilst waiting to strike my bhuts, chocolate habs, & orange habs are in flower & the thai supers & gringo killers have fruit

[Brian d marge]

that's way early, hope their going to be somewhere warm whilst waiting to strike my bhuts, chocolate habs, & orange habs are in flower & the thai supers & gringo killers have fruit

Mad dog 357

been there done that ..love the shit

stephen

[Brian d marge]

Dude!

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hey we get shit done , our towns are back up and functioning , only lost power for a few hours ( and the japs were freaking out)

Ok half the pasific ocean glows a bit green when you switch the lights off , but hey at least the ship that was parked on the main street has been moved

Stephen

ps on me travels I saw a sign that said , becareful there has been a tsunami here before , ,,,,37 meters above sea level ...
FK....37 friggn meters.....

[Brian d marge]

that's way early, hope their going to be somewhere warm whilst waiting to strike my bhuts, chocolate habs, & orange habs are in flower & the thai supers & gringo killers have fruit

medical science , has improved those

Mad dog 357 baby

anything else is stuff you give the kids

Stephen