Earthquake // Real Time

Okay so we just experienced our first fucking earthquake! You ok? I'm shitting myself! Oh my god, you ok? Ok so it's, what, what-what-what midnight? Midnight.

We just, well it's certainly the first earthquake I've ever experienced and apparently it was a fucking big one by those who have experience them before, so we're currently outside Trek Global (Where's Becky?) I don't know.

We're gonna go see if we can find out flat mates and just make sure everyone's okay.

Alrighty, so it's been about 10 minutes.

Apparently that earthquake reached a mag here in Wellington of about 6.

6, Christchurch 7.

5 apparently they felt it all the way up in Auckland but everyone's okay from the sounds of it.

Got hold of all my colleagues at work, everyone's ok and some houses a little bit trashed but it doesn't look like anything's come down.

Um we're all a bit shaken up.

That was my first earthquake experience and of course it had to be a biggie.

Oh god it's just so weird it was like the whole floor was doing this and we went straight to doorways and we were just bracing it and it lasted like a good 30 seconds so yeah and then we just legged it out the building so we're now sitting outside just waiting for the all clear before we go back in and it's fuckin freezing.

Of course my mind just immediately went to grab phone grab purse not grab jumper or underwear so I'm out here in my pajamas freezing but I'd rather be out here and make sure that it's all safe inside then go inside a risk an aftershock so everyone's fine is the moral of this story and I will keep you posted and I love you so much (kiss) Love you lots.

Ok ok ok after shock after shock after shock I'm quite glad I didn't go back inside.

Ok wasn't quite as big as the last one.

I think we just had another after shock.

(Another aftershock?) Yeah.

Okay yeah we're all okay though, it's just a little one, we'll be ok we'll be okay it's fine.

Alright then guys there's been a bit of an update.

It's been about an hour since the earthquake and we've just realized that there's a tsunami warning set in place (Can I leave this stuff with you?) Go for it, go for it my love.

Go for it.

So yeah there's a bit of tsunami warning that's been set in place we thought it was just for the South island so christchurch etcetera etcetera but apparently it also includes the south and eastern coasts of the North island that includes Wellington.

We think, well the security guys down here have pretty much assured us that we're high enough so that if it does turn up we'll be okay and but there's quite a few of us who have got.

I don't know if you can see that but we've got like food and water and we've got rucksacks all sort of packed with all the stuff that we'd need in the event of something happening.

I don't think anything is going to happen but we're kind of staying in the communal area and just sort of keeping an eye on what's going on and we've had some pictures come through from Vic Deals I tell you what if you live in Wellington and you want to know any news the Vic Deals facebook page is the place to get all the news there's been quite a few shops that have been sort of they've had mannequins knocked over and obviously anything that has produce or there's alcohol shops obviously they've lost a lot of their stock and I think there's a couple of roads that have sort of been torn up and some windows smashed in for the most part no casualties as far as we can see.

So yeah all-in-all considering the mag of it which is actually been upgraded from a 6.

6 to a 7.

5 last time I checked we're incredibly lucky that as far as we know no one has been hurt the only major damage we can see apart from the roads and such what is that the hotel next door water pipe has burst but they've got some guys on the scene now working on that so yeah.

It's about ten past two in the morning and if anything else crops up we will keep you updated.

Hello everyone so it is a few hours later from the last time I filmed, it's about six o'clock in the evening on the 14th.

So we all managed to get back into the hostel eventually and back upstairs and got to have a few hours kip and now we have got some.

I don't know if you can see that but if you could tell by the umbrella it's pretty darn horrible out here.

Most of the Wellington high street, oh got to cross the road hang on, most of Wellington high street has been closed for the day which I think is amazing at the fact that owners are not letting their workers come in today just because of the structure of the building which they live in so most of the shops down the high street have closed for the day just to check for structural damage.

As you can see we've got some certain areas were definitely, oh crap sorry it's a bit wet, was hit a bit worse than others and yeah so we.

I don't know about anyone else if they've ever experienced this especially if there are any native New Zealanders who are watching this but the weather I didn't realize get so crazy after an earthquake like you hear some things that we're still on the tsunami watch even a few hours later they could be the possibility of another earthquake we've had a couple of after shocks today which weren't exactly small so that was a bit scary.

But yeah, while it's wet and not moving the earth we're making a quick break for some food and we're just going to stock up for tonight and spend the rest of the night hopefully inside hopefully staying still so I hope you lovelies are keeping well and everyone in the Island Bay area and in Christchurch are all ok.

Major condolences to the families of the two people that sadly passed away last night.

Just.

fuck man.

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Earthquake // Real Time