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To: Kathy in Alaska; editor-surveyor; rintense; alarm rider; Lucius Cornelius Sulla; Daffynition

,,, thanks to all of you for prayers and kind thoughts as NZL starts on the road to recovery. Initial estimates in damages are around $NZ16b.

Lucius - I've seen very little news in regard to the Hobbit. When shooting was underway for the Lord of the Rings movies I drove past a few of the sets around the Wellington region as I lived there at the time. One was a cliff face in a quarry at the bottom of Haywards Hill, near Lower Hutt. That was impressive.

A friend got the contract to construct a plywood tower, sprayed with concrete stuff, to look like stone. That tower was used in the first movie. I saw that lifted into the woods by helicopter at Kaitoke, north of Upper Hutt from the back of a truck. It's quite a while ago now but Wellington was pretty lively while all that was going on.

253 posted on 02/23/2011 5:34:24 AM PST by shaggy eel

Glad you are OK... found these images of Hobbiton a long time ago..I like the way the sheep are repurposing the little hobbit homes...

....AHHHH THE SIMPLE LIFE.

254 posted on 02/23/2011 5:59:44 AM PST by Daffynition ( Live EACH DAY as if it were your last, but EXPECT that there still may be a tomorrow.)

We shall “pray without ceasing” for NZ.

256 posted on 02/23/2011 8:06:05 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Going 'EGYPT' - 2012!)

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