The Green Hermit
Hero
I remember that too. My friend's brother's band was playing in Christchurch at the time. Fortunately, they were all safe, but it was scary while we were waiting for any sort of communication.
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Zardnaar
Legend
Relative to the size of the country it killed about twice as many as 9/11.
It's been a pretty city for years (the garden city).
Most damage gone just cleared lots and the odd wrecked building left.
ScottDeWar_jr
second birthdate : 15 Dec 2011
I was born in and lived in Los Angles, so earthquakes are not new to me and they scare the [expletive delete] out of me.
I am so sworry about what happened, but 2011 was not a good year. I lost a nephew at sea while he was on watch [US Navy] in July, yes 10 years ago this month, and then on October 30, I had a deathly medical thing hapen to me where I was in an induced coma for 6 weeks. Really bad year.
I am so sworry about what happened, but 2011 was not a good year. I lost a nephew at sea while he was on watch [US Navy] in July, yes 10 years ago this month, and then on October 30, I had a deathly medical thing hapen to me where I was in an induced coma for 6 weeks. Really bad year.
Zardnaar
Legend
I've only been in some small ones. We live on the shaky isles.
ScottDeWar_jr
second birthdate : 15 Dec 2011
in February of 1971 there was a 6.9 that shook me so hard that it threw 7 year old me off the top bunk bed onto a concrete floor. slammed the water heater against the house and ripped a hole in it.
Zardnaar
Legend
Christchurch one wasn't that strong but what's under the city mattered.
Remembering high school geography. Banks peninsula is an old volcano the caldera is a harbour. I think is was an island.
The the west is the Southern Alps and everything in between us an aluvial plain.
It makes it bad in winter it's right in a giant dip. So with the earthquake they had liquefaction.
And there wasn't really much in the way of building codes in the good old days. Combined with the good ol kiwi "she'll be right attitude". Until it isn't.
ScottDeWar_jr
second birthdate : 15 Dec 2011
I seem to recall hearing about some tile mosaics that were un-savable due to those "Kiwi Codes"
Zardnaar
Legend
Yeah probably. Any shortcut is a good shortcut right.
doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
Was trying to make tortellini's with chopped squash and ground beef and black bean sauce using the water from boiling the pasta and heating up the squash and beans (canned low sodium black beans are nearly indistinguishable from loose beans) so, rather than just water and salt, it was going to be water, soy sauce, butter, salt, pepper, and fresh rosemary and thyme, beans in first, then tortellini (very short cook time), then squash, drain about 2/3 of the water, then add the water slowly to the leavings from cooking the ground beef (union, celery, oregano, low sodium soy sauce, pepper, unsalted butter, and of course melted beef fat) along with fresh rosemary and basil to make a simple sauce.
Unfortunately, the tortellini I had purchased that morning had mold, and I was too late in the day to go back for more, and I found out after i had dumped them in with the squash into a colander to rinse...intellectually I know I could have safely used the squash (zucchini, yellow squash, and Mexican squash, purchased pre-chopped to save time), but I just couldn't do it, so I dumped both into the trash.
So, what did I end up with? Well, I drained about half the water that already had the beans and herbs and stuff in it, added a can of tomato paste, some habenero salt, soy sauce, butter, and the liquid from the pan of ground beef, gruadually mixed in flour and milk to thicken into a nice dense sauce, added the ground beef which was spiced with a little red curry powder, added a small spoon of baking chocolate powder like I do when I make chili, and then salt and pepper to taste.
Then I toasted up some whole grain pita in the oven, cut them in quarters, and served the sauce on top of them on the plate.
It came out really good. A quick cheat chili, basically, and not at all what I'd planned (the sauce was going to just been black beans and herb-ey sauce over tortellini's with ground beef and squash), but very very tasty and filling. Wife and our girlfriend loved it, and I felt like a boss for saving dinner from disaster. I really nearly ordered pizza when I saw the mold. Glad I chose to keep trying.
Next morning I toasted the last pita, fried two eggs sunny side up, and heated up the sauce to go on top. Several days later, used the last of it to go with some gluten free cornbread I was trying out for the sake of my gluten-intolerant mother in law. Every time, I loved the flavor and thickness, and it went very very well with both leftover plates. I took a picture of breakfast to send to my wife the next day.
Unfortunately, the tortellini I had purchased that morning had mold, and I was too late in the day to go back for more, and I found out after i had dumped them in with the squash into a colander to rinse...intellectually I know I could have safely used the squash (zucchini, yellow squash, and Mexican squash, purchased pre-chopped to save time), but I just couldn't do it, so I dumped both into the trash.
So, what did I end up with? Well, I drained about half the water that already had the beans and herbs and stuff in it, added a can of tomato paste, some habenero salt, soy sauce, butter, and the liquid from the pan of ground beef, gruadually mixed in flour and milk to thicken into a nice dense sauce, added the ground beef which was spiced with a little red curry powder, added a small spoon of baking chocolate powder like I do when I make chili, and then salt and pepper to taste.
Then I toasted up some whole grain pita in the oven, cut them in quarters, and served the sauce on top of them on the plate.
It came out really good. A quick cheat chili, basically, and not at all what I'd planned (the sauce was going to just been black beans and herb-ey sauce over tortellini's with ground beef and squash), but very very tasty and filling. Wife and our girlfriend loved it, and I felt like a boss for saving dinner from disaster. I really nearly ordered pizza when I saw the mold. Glad I chose to keep trying.
Next morning I toasted the last pita, fried two eggs sunny side up, and heated up the sauce to go on top. Several days later, used the last of it to go with some gluten free cornbread I was trying out for the sake of my gluten-intolerant mother in law. Every time, I loved the flavor and thickness, and it went very very well with both leftover plates. I took a picture of breakfast to send to my wife the next day.
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