In a message dated 02-26-15, Paul Quinn said to Holger Granholm:   
      
   Hi Paul,   
      
    HG> I hope all is well with you and yours despite the storms and bad   
    HG> weather you've had hitting the west coast of Australia.   
      
   PQ> All Ok, thanks Holger.  We just recently had a category 5 cyclone   
   PQ> skirt around our countryside.  (At category 3 they're equivalent to   
   PQ> a northern hemisphere hurricane.)  Luckily there wasn't any local   
   PQ> flooding and no bridge closures this time.   
      
   It's comforting to read this. When you have friends in areas being hit   
   with weather that is bad enough to be reported in the news, at least I   
   get worried.   
      
   PQ> Prior to that, we experienced our first earthquake of any note in   
   PQ> recent times.   
   PQ>  A 5.2 magnitude quake that rattled the house at ~0200hrs one Monday   
   PQ> morning. It turns out that the epicenter was within 100kms   
   PQ> northwest of here.   
      
   That hasn't penetrated the news sill reported here in Europe.   
      
   PQ> Oh, you said the west coast.  Yes.  They have had it tough there.   
      
   Yeah, you have seen my correction to that!   
      
   PQ> Mostly heat waves and bush fires.  The fires have been the worst.   
      
   Yes I know and they spread real fast as a fire storm.   
      
   PQ> How's your hip?  Are you walking alright?   
      
   I was. On saturday I could write into my diary that everything was back   
   to normal and walking without any aid.   
      
   Early wednesday morning when I went to pee the carpet slipped under my   
   foot and I landed on the other hip but this time from a much lower   
   height and I even was able to dampen the fall by grabbing a stationary   
   item on the way down.   
      
   The crash landing height this time was only 0.5m but it still hurt and   
   now I'm back on the scandinavian walking poles even in the apartment.   
      
      
   Have a nice afternoon,   
      
   Holger   
      
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