03-11-2020, 08:46 PM
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Originally Posted by d00d
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tsunami yes.I didn't know it till later in the day when it was reported on the TV news.
It was weird ... house shaking, so went to the beach to see the highest tide ever.
03-11-2020, 09:21 PM
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Earthquake Mexico city. Sept 19 1985. 8,5 Richter. Around 10,000 killed. I was working on the outskirts on my first big project but the thing was awful. Because Mex City is built on a sorta swamp within a rock sorta basin the effect was very much worse within the city but bad enough out of the focus zone.Many ex-pats left the job but goodness knows why a few senior staff and I remained behind in order to get at least a rudimentary telephone service running but for a couple of days sections broke because of ground movements rather than aftershocks.
What we saw I won't go into but around 10000 corpses in a hot climate is something once smelled never forgotten quite apart from people who had literally been burst open by masonry falling on them.
A hell of an introduction to working in horrible places. Had it not been for the money it would have put me off for ever.
03-11-2020, 09:25 PM
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Originally Posted by The Artful Todger
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Earthquake Mexico city. Sept 19 1985. 8,5 Richter. Around 10,000 killed. I was working on the outskirts on my first big project but the thing was awful. Because Mex City is built on a sorta swamp within a rock sorta basin the effect was very much worse within the city but bad enough out of the focus zone.Many ex-pats left the job but goodness knows why a few senior staff and I remained behind in order to get at least a rudimentary telephone service running but for a couple of days sections broke because of ground movements rather than aftershocks.
What we saw I won't go into but around 10000 corpses in a hot climate is something once smelled never forgotten quite apart from people who had literally been burst open by masonry falling on them.
A hell of an introduction to working in horrible places. Had it not been for the money it would have put me off for ever.
03-11-2020, 10:02 PM
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Originally Posted by The Artful Todger
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Earthquake Mexico city. Sept 19 1985. 8,5 Richter. Around 10,000 killed. I was working on the outskirts on my first big project but the thing was awful. Because Mex City is built on a sorta swamp within a rock sorta basin the effect was very much worse within the city but bad enough out of the focus zone.Many ex-pats left the job but goodness knows why a few senior staff and I remained behind in order to get at least a rudimentary telephone service running but for a couple of days sections broke because of ground movements rather than aftershocks.
What we saw I won't go into but around 10000 corpses in a hot climate is something once smelled never forgotten quite apart from people who had literally been burst open by masonry falling on them.
A hell of an introduction to working in horrible places. Had it not been for the money it would have put me off for ever.
03-11-2020, 10:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Lion Queen
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that sounds so frightening
03-11-2020, 11:57 PM
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Two earthquakes. First in Western Australia in 1968 when I was living there. Lots of damage in Perth city but nobody killed - IT was a public holdiday. But it destroyed a whole small town up in the country. Second in Newcastle (Australia) in 1989. I was in Northern Sydney but felt it from there. LOts of damage and injuries in Newcastle. Felt quite a few shudders in San Francisco when I was living there. I never got used to it but the locals hardle even flinched.|
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