Re: Our cousins from across the ditch
Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 7:20 am
... Indeed, our thoughts are with them ...
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Our cousins from across the ditch
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Re: Our cousins from across the ditch
Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 9:42 am
Spot on Marty
Re: Our cousins from across the ditch
Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 12:50 pm
Just got a phone call from friends in Dannevirke which is on the top island and they have been asked if they can take displaced persons into their motel as there are hundreds of visitors and people now homeless in Christchurch. They have been flying tourists out minus passports as they have lost everything - a stroke of common sense.
She said there is a 29 story hotel complex which is being emptied because the ground beneath it is liquefying and it is sinking. Apparently this is a huge problem there as the ground appears to be turning literally into a quicksand beneath the rescuers and survivors feet and is actually oozing up from the cracks in the ground. This shocked me as I had never heard of such a thing.
Terrible times - and world wide
She said there is a 29 story hotel complex which is being emptied because the ground beneath it is liquefying and it is sinking. Apparently this is a huge problem there as the ground appears to be turning literally into a quicksand beneath the rescuers and survivors feet and is actually oozing up from the cracks in the ground. This shocked me as I had never heard of such a thing.
Terrible times - and world wide
Re: Our cousins from across the ditch
Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:50 pm
Quite so Maureen, terrible times. Makes you wonder what's next ?
Re: Our cousins from across the ditch
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 5:50 am
Do not fear, Neville . . footy seasonNeville Briggs wrote:terrible times. Makes you wonder what's next ?
Re: Our cousins from across the ditch
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 8:27 am
I was afraid of that
Re: Our cousins from across the ditch
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 9:32 am
Tiss the Collie wobles that they haveRe: Our cousins from across the ditch
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 9:42 am
During a previous footy season I gave a Collingwood supporter wrong directions to the Gabba - "Welcome to Brisbane Ya Mug!!" ...
Re: Our cousins from across the ditch
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 2:43 pm
Oh Manfred you are WICKED. Wicked I say
Good one!
Heather
Wicked I say Good one!
Heather
Re: Our cousins from across the ditch
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 5:59 pm
Hey Bill Collie is about the only place in good ol Aus that’s not wobbling at the moment. 
TTFN
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