"What earthquake here in the middle of Christchurch, unlikely." "If you paid attention during your course of geography Young man, you know I've said many times, Christchurch is built on a swamp and thus the probability of an earthquake having much effect us in this city is very small. "
I'll put both my junior and my blushes high school geography teacher, leaving aside their names, but since I was a young child and I'm now a little older who had a few birthdays ending in 0, successive governments have preached teaches the same for me and no doubt other scores Cantabrians on relatively safe havens, we isolated earthquakes in Canterbury Live
You can imagine my surprise when, September 4, 2010 at 4:35 on a black ground, ably still morning in late winter, an earthquake 7.1 magnitude earth shook my house off its foundation, the windows broken and rearranged our landscape. Within 45 seconds or so, when our world rocked his socks, our house became unlivable, our section has become a terraced back yard with two trenches one meter wide and two meters in places depth and all services were cut. The next hour was spent wading through water, mud and sand so that our neighbors and my children, who live in three distinct parts of the city, were all ok. Remarkably, only a few people throughout Canterbury were injured, thank you God.
In the dark cold and then we sat in the rest of our house, waiting for the day, waiting for replicas and whatever the daylight does us. Paradoxically, while we sat in the glow of torches in our room, sitting in the dark the first thing that comes to mind was: "these fellows were full of Shiites! "
Mind you, in their defense, I learned since the last time this fault line was active was 16,000 years ago, and the ability to detect such evidence history was most likely, only recently available. Although all of my past teaching themselves seem old at the time, it is highly were present at all unlikely, although a gray haired old man must be born on the day. Also, again to save their blushes, I just found that the mud and sand that fell beneath our gardens and roads, burst through the surface where it rained like a button to erupt through the skin, is actually called "liquefaction", go figure? It is a word I have never, never heard before, and certainly has never been part of my vocabulary professor of geography class.
All this goes to show is that time, as people pass by and no matter what we say today, today, or tomorrow, it's just conjecture, based on historical data and supposedly educated guess.
I, like my former teachers decrepit, will tell my grandchildren that I know and what I think, from my heart, without malice or intent to deceive, and yet the time may indeed prove to my own grandchildren, even their grandparents wise old, beautiful, good and friendly old, can also be full of Shiites? I wonder.
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