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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">We were at home, sitting at the dining room table
talking to the EQC inspectors. When the quake hit four of us ran for the front
door.</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Terrifying violent rumble and shake!</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">We OK, House OK, everything inside trashed and on the
floor. No power, no phone, no water, slept in car last night.</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Lots of damage in Lyttelton, Sumner, Mt Pleasant.</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Everything in cupboards is on the floors mainly
smashed.</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Piano jumped 3-4 feet across floor.</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Aftershocks - Deep rumbling or shaking every minute or
so, extremely unnerving as it is a very solid, very fast strong rumble,
reverberates right though the rock hills that Mt Pleasant is built on - very
uncanny when standing outside listening to it. I would say its exhilarating but
most everyone I know disagrees vehemently.</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Other – Saga’s laptop fell from the table onto the
floor, and seems to have survived, however the network port seems to be broken
as the ethernet cord dragged it off the table so it might need to be
replaced....</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Nothing was left in the fridge or freezer either, and
toaster was hanging by its cord....</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">We have redecorated the kitchen!</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">John
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