[time-nuts] Lyttleton Time Ball completly collapsed

Jose Camara camaraq1 at quantacorp.com
Tue Jun 14 17:14:31 UTC 2011


Pity... Hopefully no one was working on the dismantling when nature decided
to help.

Soon on eBay - "Slightly used timeball - local pickup only..."



-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of Dave Brown
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 10:36 PM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lyttleton Time Ball completly collapsed

'Before' and 'after' yesterdays quake -  pix of the timeball station plus an

item about it that appeared in a suburban newspaper last week.
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~tractorb/timeball/

 DaveB
Christchurch, NZ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Rooke" <sar10538 at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" 
<time-nuts at febo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lyttleton Time Ball completly collapsed


>I have seen no pictures of the current site but the quakes have downed
> several more buildings and many more are now added to the list of those 
> that
> will need to be demolished. It will become a ghost town if this continues 
> to
> happen. People are sick of the shocks and more are leaving as they are
> scared of living here. Many were injured and two are still in hospital 
> with
> serious injuries. Existing delays in repair payments from the Government 
> are
> causing considerable grief and anger with the people here and this is 
> likely
> to add to it. New Zealanders have paid a national insurance scheme for
> earthquake coverage for decades and that should be available but it seems 
> to
> not be forthcoming in any reasonable timeframe unfortunately. The mob is
> getting their pitchforks sharpened and torches ready; Gerry Brownley,
> Minister for EQC, had better beware!
>
> Steve
>
> On 14 June 2011 10:49, brent evers <brent.evers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dissapointing - I remember it being pointed out to me as we pulled
>> into port there once.  Are there others scattered around the globe?
>>
>> Brent
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Steve Rooke <sar10538 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Sadly, the Lyttleton Time Ball completly collapsed in yesterday's, Mon
>> 13th,
>> > after-shocks. There were two quite major shocks of 5.5 at 1pm followed 
>> > by
>> a
>> > 6 at 2:20pm centered around the Sumner suberb which is close to
>> Lyttleton.
>> >
>> > Cheers, Steve
>> > --
>> > Steve Rooke - ZL3TUV & G8KVD
>> > The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at 
>> > once. -
>> > Einstein
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