I didn't want any more earthquakes! It was a big one this morning. Big enough that I went for the door frame (didn't fo that at all the other night) and stuff fell off out bookshelf. They were precariously balanced things but still. Stuff falling off shelves!
Now I'm scared to go to work in case it's The Big One and I get stranded there and Lee's at home and he just got back and I wanna be with him. I'm not sure irrational fear is a valid reason for calling in sick though. It was bigger than the Tuesday ones though, and closer to us.
In other news, Lee came home! He bought me such a beautiful thing: a scrapbook/photo album bound in Kauri. It's really very lovely. I also got rock candy and a cute little flower necklace made from Kauri cones.
We also talked through some things that I figured out in the time we spent apart, so that's all good.
Watched some more Lost! Squee!
Right, my belly's still turning over with shaky earth fear, but I need to have a shower. Laters!
Posted by jenni at January 21, 2005 08:15 AMDoes it count as an irrational fear if it turns out to be true?
I guess at the library you would have access to many books on earthquake survival techniques. In fact, you could use them as a little fort to hold off looters, post-cataclysm.
Posted by: phreq at January 21, 2005 07:06 AMYes, but if there was a major cataclism while I was at work I would set out on a dangerous but heroic quest to return home. Like the two dogs and the cat in "Homeward Bound" or something from "28 Days Later" but without the zombies.
Also, book looting from libraries is a strange survivial decision. Maybe you should loot the supermarkets? Just a thought.
Unless of course books become the new currency in the post-Earthquake Wellington.
In which case I'll still be heading home because I have a whole heap of currency there...I mean books.
Posted by: Jenni at January 21, 2005 11:02 AMNige felt it this morning while I was in the shower (I didn't) but it must have been big if it was centred in upper hutt and you could feel it in Palmy.
Posted by: Karen at January 21, 2005 11:17 AMRe: Hix looting libraries
Ah, but you see, one loots libraries for _librarians_.
We all know they are an asset in survival situations (see earlier discussions of "Day after Tomorrow"), so everyone will want one of their own!
And the cute ones will be especially valuable in the aftermath economy!
It woke me up too. Lots glass sounds from the hallway where we had two vases too close together.
I was in a car, on my way to the train station at the time, and therefore missed the earthquake. It still affected me, though - The train didn't leave for ages, and when it did, it had to go extra slow, in case the tracks had been damaged.
Posted by: Evie at January 21, 2005 02:16 PMWhile the rest of my flatmates scrabbled half-naked (wearing bottoms, fortunately) under doorframes, I tried to move my monitor from its unstable pedestal back onto the desk. In the process, I spilled my glass of water over all my work.
This illustrates:
1) Panic really is the most dangerous threat in a natural disaster; and
2) I have strange priorities in survival situations.
See you all at the library. I'll be the one with the makeshift spear.
Posted by: hix at January 21, 2005 07:29 PMew.. I've been in two quakes myself.. both times early morning so I was really just waking up.
STill petty awful.
Let's just hope they don't hit in Auckalnd... rivers of lava.. or lahars probably as we are not Hawaii or some Hollywood set.... really.. not the good thing for tourists...
Posted by: michaela at January 23, 2005 09:58 PMIrrespective of my comments from a day or two ago, I AM starting to get worried. There's no scientific link between most of the 15 EQs we've had in the last few days, the 8.1 at MacQuarie and the 9.0 near Indonesia, but nonetheless it has been giving me jitters.... And I don't have anyone to hold onto! :(
Once again though, as the geophysicist I feel the need to say that there is bollocks all connection between them, and it's just chance. The big one is NOT coming, although the 150th anniversary of the last (and BIGGEST in recorded NZ history) is in the next few days. I suggest getting drunk for that. :)
Posted by: SiG at January 24, 2005 02:37 AM