Glad to hear everyone is ok. As for the looters.....

Looks like my work building will be having 'checks' until probably Friday, so I get to work from home  

Phil, I'm pretty sure KiwiDave is in Auckland, over 600km away, nearer to Sandinista than to Pierre & I

My son is back home and his place was not one of the 19 looted

You really have to wonder about some people

Just had a couple of strong after shocks in the last 10 minutes; 5.6 and 5.8
I moved into a door way for the bigger one

Rain and winds rising to gale force coming in now, just what they don't need

Phil, I'm in Auckland, so suitably far away to be unaffected by the drama.

As for the looters, they should be shot like the rabid dogs that they are....

I was talking to a work colleague today, her son was due to move back north today after finishing college near where the earthquake was. I can't remember the name of the town (getting old, memory going...) anyway, she was worried as he wasn't answering her calls. She eventually gets a call back from him mid morning, he slept through it, aided by beer - the students friend.
Apparently he deserves his hangover  

Cheers
Ian

Interesting graphic my mate just posted.
https://www.facebook.com/michael.cowie/posts/10157739102590357?ref=notif&notif_t=close_friend_activity&notif_id=1479144076532480

Good to hear everyone's safe and well, we've been getting updates from my brother-in-law and family, who found themselves standing outside in the garden in the early hours of the morning until it calmed down!

What part of the country are brother-in-law and family in Leon?

I have an Uncle living in New Zealand. After the earthquake he is reported to be in Shetland. 

I've got oodles of distant relatives in NZ.
Sadly, it's a part of the family tree I know next to nothing about, apart from one man.

(Paul knows who that is.)

Cheers - Phil

Quote from: paulr on 15 November 2016, 12:42:04 AM
What part of the country are brother-in-law and family in Leon?

They're in New Plymouth, with the nephew up at university in Waikato.

Reasonably far away then, although there were some power problems in some places in Taranaki (province New Plymouth is in)

Yeah, they lost power for quite some time, so were conserving mobile batteries in case it didn't come back on.  I think it was fixed sometime the following afternoon though, so maybe 12 hours out.