[time-nuts] Earthquake meets time ball

Rob Kimberley rk at timing-consultants.com
Thu Feb 24 17:49:57 UTC 2011


Glad to hear you are safe Steve - Time Nuts wouldn't quite be the same
without you!
Good luck down there mate.

Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of Steve Rooke
Sent: 24 February 2011 10:13 AM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Earthquake meets time ball

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 <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> In message 
> <AANLkTi=6V+Gwa_o-Z9YXkar5TKzPvGoQc9tLTkOOQ=Y5 at mail.gmail.com>,
> Stev
> e Rooke writes:
>
> Keep smiling Steve, and let us know if we can do anything for you.
>
> --
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Steve Rooke - ZL3TUV & G8KVD
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
- Einstein

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