Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]NEW ZEALAND EARTHQUAKE! This post is for all those LUG members living along the west coast of South & North America continents. It has nothing to do with being mercenary, but everything about being prepared... FIRST YOUR FAMILIES AND SELF! Around Vancouver Island in the past week we have had a couple of slight shakers, this just before the New Zealand quake. Now this has nothing to do with pushing any panic buttons, but simple common sense logic, be prepared! 1/ Do you have a dozen bottles of fresh water in your home, some food in cans and more importantly "A CAN OPENER TO GET THEM OPEN?" Unless you have the newly designed pull tab soup and other kinds of food cans with pull tabs to open? 2/ A mobile battery operated radio and a phone? Like look at it this simple way...... "YOU ARE BURIED WITHIN A COLLAPSED BUILDING... YOUR HOME? YOU ARE ALIVE AND BASICALLY OK, BUT YOU CAN'T GET OUT! SO YOU'RE TRAPPED AND DIE BECAUSE NOBODY KNOWS YOU ARE TRAPPED INSIDE! Think about that simple scenario? So make sure you have some kind of communication whatever it is! WE! Those living around the Pacific Ocean "RING OF FIRE!" If you don't know what and where that is do a quick look on your computer screen and GOOGLE "Rim of Fire countries." Don't slough this off for those living coastal areas of North & South America! Or the other side of the Pacific Ocean. A few minutes and it may save you and your families life. WHY AM I BRINGING THIS UP? Quite simple really. During the past several months there has been a considerable amount of seismic activity around the Pacific Ring of Fire countries. And given they've been getting stronger let's not sit around unprepared until we end up like those poor folks in New Zealand. I usually have an M camera with me most of the time and have done so for many many years.... "A Good Boy Scout, "Always Be Prepared!" By the same token on one occasion I did miss a small Earth quake in these parts a few years ago "without a camera!" Trust me it's never going to happen again! Particularly now! Since all this extra seismic activity has begun happing around the Pacific Ocean.... read my lips, NO MATTER WHERE I GO I WILL HAVE AN M8 and a few cards in my pocket just in case!" Plus a spare battery in another pocket! Think about it all you folks on the WEST coast of North & South America????? ..... WE COULD BE THE NEXT BIG ONE? AND DO YOU WANT TO MISS ALL THE REALLY COOL PICTURES AS IT'S HAPPENING?" Trust me it isn't going to be me! Any LUG members in New Zealand / Christchurch City I wish you well and trust you and your families are safe and sound. Dr. ted