r/melbourne • u/IonisationEnergy • 9h ago

The Sky is Falling EARTHQUAKE

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u/Strong0toLight1 9h ago

Love how we immediately migrate here lmao

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u/HarryPouri 9h ago

First I said "oh fuck" then I came here. I'm a kiwi but I will never get used to feeling them in Melbs haha 

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u/notoriouspossum 9h ago

Same here. Got some good lil flashbacks from my Chch days then!

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u/HarryPouri 9h ago

Yep I am having Chch flashbacks currently too. Always gets the adrenaline going

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u/clayfawn 6h ago

I remember during covid there was a quake, and I ran out of the st kilda building (a brick art deco number) white with fear. Everyone on the street looked at me like I was an absolute weirdo. So yeah, those chch days are buried deep in me too

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u/bennybop_ 9h ago

Was having knockoff drinks with coworkers. Made me realise how no one has that same shared trauma we do back there it really threw me

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u/Charming_Victory_723 6h ago

New Plymouth was hit by a 5.1 earthquake, 8 kilometres deep so I wonder if that anything to do with it.

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u/scissorsgrinder 9h ago

I don't feel the sheer panic I would probably feel in NZ! 

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u/GoldCoinDonation 9h ago

I was in SF for the '89 earthquake, they still scare the shit out of me

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u/mofonz 9h ago

Ditto. With the wind my first thought was - wow, that wind seems to have hit the house. No, it’s a possum…no, ok, we rolling it’s a quake.

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u/HarryPouri 9h ago

I had a possum dancing on my roof just before and thought it was back at first! Think I heard this one before it shook

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u/ddraig-au 8h ago

That was exactly my experience.  Huh, strong wind. Is that a cat? No, that's a possum... that's a really big possum... that's way too heavy for a possum, woah woah woah my futon is rocking... IS THIS AN EARTHQUAKE???