Everything begins with an E...
Everything.
Here's the post I wrote when all our everything arrived.
Unpacking ground to a halt around mid-May due to severe apathy and a lot of everything is still awaiting its final place in the house.
This will pick up after the summer holidays as Mum is coming to stay in September and her bedroom is currently the holding place for everything.
Having visitors is a good way of ensuring everything is tidied up.
Well, it works for me.
E-coli.
It wasn't my fault! See below.
Earthquakes.
I have a catastrophic history. Many places suffer some kind of disaster shortly after I leave. Normally it's earthquakes, but sometimes floods, revolutions, whatever - I've blanked most of the details out of my mind now.
Several towns in Peru no longer exist. I'm sorry.
Immediately after I left South America in 1996, this happened - bolded places were those I'd just left. Data from the USGS website:
NOV 12 1996 16 59 44.0 14.993 S 75.675 W 33 N 6.5 7.3 1.1 365 NEAR COAST OF PERU. Mw 7.5 (GS), 7.7 (HRV). Me 7.3 (GS).
Ms 7.0 (BRK). Es=2.2*10**15 Nm (GS). Mo=2.0*10**20 Nm (GS).
Mo=4.6*10**20 Nm (HRV). Mo=7.7*10**20 Nm (PPT).
At least 14 people killed, 560 injured and 12,000 homeless from Chincha Alta to Acari. Over 4,000 houses damaged or destroyed (VIII) at Nazca. Felt (VII) in the Marcona area; (VI) at Ica and Palpa; (IV) at Arequipa and Camana; (III) at Lima and Tacna; (II) at Huancayo and Pucallpa. Felt by people in high-rise buildings at Guayaquil, Ecuador and La Paz, Bolivia. Tsunami generated with maximum recorded wave heights (peak-to-trough) of 25 cm at Callao, Peru; 35 cm at Arica and 21 cm at Caldera, Chile. This thrust earthquake is associated with the subduction of the Nazca Ridge (a major feature of the Nazca plate) beneath the South American plate. It originated near the southern end of a seismic gap between the large Peruvian earthquakes of August 24, 1942 and October 3, 1974, with the aftershock sequence progressing southward into the zone of the 1942 event. Complex earthquake with at least two larger events occurring about 18 and 30 seconds after the onset.
OK, so I hadn't actually left Japan when the Great Tohoku Earthquake hit on 11th March 2011, BUT... we were supposed to leave in December 2010.
I told you these posts were going to be a stream of unconsciousness, didn't I? I do like to ramble on...