[time-nuts] Earthquake meets time ball

[Steve Rooke]

Thanks and perhaps your right :)

At least time seems to ticking by OK even if I no longer have anything
locked to it.

Cheers, Steve

On 25/02/2011, Rob Kimberley <rk at timing-consultants.com> wrote:
> 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