[Sca-cooks] How are our friends in New Zealand doing?

[Huette von Ahrens]

I am glad to hear that people are safe and relatively okay.  I was worried, because living in California as I do, I understand the effects of earthquakes on a human being.  The USGS says that the magnitude was 7.0, while other sources say 7.1 or 7.4.  No matter which is correct, that is a very stong earthquake.  Take care of yourself.  You are being prayed for.

Huette


--- On Sat, 9/4/10, Antonia <dama.antonia at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Antonia <dama.antonia at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] How are our friends in New Zealand doing?
> To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Date: Saturday, September 4, 2010, 11:36 AM
>  On 5/09/2010 4:49 a.m., Huette von
> Ahrens wrote:
> > I just heard that New Zealand has suffered through a
> devastating earthquake.  I have seen lots of pictures
> of collapsed buildings.  How are you doing
> Antonia?  How are the rest of our SCA friends doing
> there?
> 
> 
> First things first: WE'RE ALL SAFE!  There has been
> considerable damage to property in the city, but no loss of
> life and very few serious injuries.    We're all
> very shaken (literally!), but no SCAdians were hurt beyond a
> few bruises as far as I know. We've had over 40 aftershocks
> of magnitudes up to 5.4, which is extremely unnerving. 
> Power has been restored to most of the city, and they're
> working on the water and sewer problems.  Some
> SCAdians' houses were damaged, but as far as I know, not
> seriously-- just collapsed chimneys, broken pipes, smashed
> crockery and the like.  I think we were very lucky that
> the quake happened when it did (4:30am), as most people were
> off the streets and in the relative safety of their homes.
> 
> I'm fine, apart from strung out and exhausted (only a
> couple of hours sleep Friday night), but nothing damaged and
> no injuries-- just one very unsettled cat.
> 
> -- Antonia di Benedetto Calvo
> 
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