<OT> To all New Zealand SxS members

[burns]

On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 16:56, Keith Antoine wrote:

> There were no injuries afaik in nz from it just mostly lost stock in shops and 
> a big fright for a 7.1 that was very good.

Don't get them much here, although we do get our share of other things.
We had an ice storm a few years back that walloped eastern Canada, we
were part of this massive power outage that just blacked out
northeastern North America, we had a cougar/mountain lion prowling the
south end of the city suburbs eating pets last month (not usual), and 

I've also just heard from my sister-in-law that they are under
evacuation notice as part of the forest fires in Kelowna, British
Columbia (western Canada). The mountain behind their house is ablaze and
ash is dropping on their front garden. Last night 25 houses further out
were burned, although it's got a way to go yet to reach my in-laws.
Their bags are packed in the front hallway. Guess people everywhere are
coping with these things that get dropped on us.
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burns