Well, I really don't know what to think... part of me wonders if I am cursed, part of me wonders if its just the weather & mother nature and then another part of me wonders if its the start of the end of the world...
Let me give you an idea of what has happened to me in the past few months:
1) So we gather in Chch for my mother's 80th birthday and on the day of mums birthday - 4th September 2010 at 4.37am without warning, a 7.1 richter scale earthquake occurs forcing the city into chaos. Being the start of spring, the city is in darkness because the power goes out. You have no idea what the rest of the city is like and sitting there relaying on someone's iPhone showing pictures of what one could only describe as a warzone. There are pictures of buildings down, rubble over the streets, people roaming the streets looking lost. If thats not enough, then you have to deal with the aftershocks... you don't know when they are going to hit or how big they will be. Geonet.org.nz becomes the most visited website in the country! You hear stories of lucky escapes and not so lucky escapes. The miracle is that no one was killed! I had a week in Chch after the quake and I came back to Brisbane I constantly felt quakes... it was a very nervous couple of weeks - probably took a good month for me to get back to normal - let alone the people still in Chch...
2) In the UK with my sister and we leave for Paris on 18th November.. we get back in to Brisbane on 23rd November... one week later the UK and parts of Europe are under snow. Ok so we weren't actually there but it was a pretty close call to be honest. If we had been just one week later we would have been forced to sleep at the airport!
3) Brisbane January 2011 - the floods... I say floods mean plural!! Toowoomba, Ipswich, Grantham and Brisbane city and surrounding suburbs... suburbs I didn't even know were anywhere near a river where under water to their roofs.. We were lucky. We live opposite Kedron Brook - which on Tuesday 11th January (incidently my nephews birthday) was really high due to the rain... luckily the rain stopped because if it didn't I could be telling you a completely different story. Most people haven't been at work since Tuesday. The CBD was pretty much completely closed down and had no power. The buses & trains were stopped on Wednesday at 1pm, on Thursday out of over 200 bus routes the city has only 7 of them were operating and that was on limited services. Its really weird to go thru this again because a lot of the information and advice is the same - don't go out unless you have to, keep away from danger areas, this will change the face of the city forever, we will rebuild, etc.
One thing came out of this tho - my friend Suzanne use to work for a local Chch tv station and knows someone who works for TV3, she asked if I would want my details sent to them because I was in the quake as well as this.. so yes, I got interviewed for the TV3 news and was on last night - I have never had so many text & FB messages... haha
I am really hoping that the close call in the UK is the 2nd of the "things happen in 3's" scenario... I really don't think I could actually go through this again. Although I wasn't directly impacted with anything destroyed, you just have frayed nerves because you just don't know when, what, or how things are going to happen.
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