We were sitting down to a nice dinner of nachos, chilli, guacamole and sour cream two evenings ago. It was Dads first time eating chilli in... well.. ever.. when the whole house started shaking. It lasted for about 30 seconds and it turns out that we had just experienced our first ever earthquake, and quite a large one at that - 6.8 on the richter scale - about a 10 on the sphincter scale. The epicentre was about 50 miles offshore of Gisborne, which is north of Hastings (where we are). There were no casualties in Gisborne although there was 30 million dollars worth of damage - but I've taken some before and after photos of the mayhem in Hastings.
Brace yourself now...
My mother commented that that was the last time that Dad was going to be allowed to eat chilli.
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