Last BLOG - I touched on the Japanese earthquakes, the Tsunami and the impending Nuclear Reactor concerns. I also made a small reference to my recent honeymoon in Vanuatu.
At the time, I was only purging random thoughts as the drama was unfolding, and due to the enormous scale of the event, I know that most readers here will have had their fill of all things Tsunami. With the saturation coverage going on, another event has occurred that may have slipped your radar, but hit a bulls-eye on my spiritual dart-board.
On March 17th at approx 3pm, my tropical paradise of Vanuatu was struck by a sizeable quake itself.
With thoughts still ripe and fresh in my mind of the lovely people who endeared themselves to us, we were instantly thrown back to the days we spent there - What would we have done ? What would be happending right now ? Do we think they would have evacuated our resort ? How much time would we have had ???
This ALL took place after my last blog, but it should be noted it occurs at a time that re-enforces my belief some bizarre form of higher power is at work in my life right now !
To recap recent events, we dodged bullet #1 with a cyclone passing the northern islands 9 days before we arrived. Bullet #2 occurred as we slept through a magnitude 5 quake at 4.45am without incident during one of the days we stayed. Bullet #3 occurred after our re-entry to Australia, when days later Japan had their worst ever tsunami causing global alerts for all islands in the Pacific.
NOW here's the kicker .... Bullet #4 - We missed a 6.5 magnitude quake in the last 24hrs (11 days post departure), with the epicentre a mere 77km from where we stayed ! - I've crunched the numbers since the event. Had a localised tsunami greater than 30cms happened, we would have had less than an hour to react.
I'm old enough to remember the Newcastle earthquake of 1989. At the time, I lived over 250km away and that one registered at 5.6. Still strong enough to make me think my house would fall down - It bamboozles me what 6.5 quake from 77km away would be like (let alone an 8.9 like Japan !).
What's more .... I think I may have predicted it.
And it's not the first time clairvoyance has knocked on my door either.
I'm not a skeptic. I'm not affiliated with organised religion.
I believe in God in so much as, I believe "A" higher-power-slash-powerful-influence DOES effect us all from time to time. Call it "God", Call it "Karma". Call it "Luck" or call it "Fate" - I call them the "under-currents of the world". Some people say "what goes around, comes around" .... it's all of that, but the real answer is somewhere in between.
For me, it's like a wireless FM radio ... some times the reception is good. At others, nothing but static and cant hear a thing. Some nights I walk out the front door and it hits me that "drama is coming", or "trouble on the horizon". Occasionally I find myself thinking of the randomest people for no particular reason, only to find some time later, they were having their own life event at the same time ...
Below the end of this blog in a screen-capped excerpt of a conversation I had recently with our Guest Blog Contributor "Anna". She has evidenced this behaviour in me more than once now, and on a personal level when we had never met face to face, I sensed her pain to find out a dear relative has recently passed. Sure, THAT could have been a weird co-incidence. I'm logical enough to accept a one-off even if it's that close to the mark ... but read below and see clairvoyant event #2 for yourself.
13 hours or so before the quake hit - I deadset freak myself out sometimes !
At the time, I was only purging random thoughts as the drama was unfolding, and due to the enormous scale of the event, I know that most readers here will have had their fill of all things Tsunami. With the saturation coverage going on, another event has occurred that may have slipped your radar, but hit a bulls-eye on my spiritual dart-board.
On March 17th at approx 3pm, my tropical paradise of Vanuatu was struck by a sizeable quake itself.
With thoughts still ripe and fresh in my mind of the lovely people who endeared themselves to us, we were instantly thrown back to the days we spent there - What would we have done ? What would be happending right now ? Do we think they would have evacuated our resort ? How much time would we have had ???
This ALL took place after my last blog, but it should be noted it occurs at a time that re-enforces my belief some bizarre form of higher power is at work in my life right now !
To recap recent events, we dodged bullet #1 with a cyclone passing the northern islands 9 days before we arrived. Bullet #2 occurred as we slept through a magnitude 5 quake at 4.45am without incident during one of the days we stayed. Bullet #3 occurred after our re-entry to Australia, when days later Japan had their worst ever tsunami causing global alerts for all islands in the Pacific.
NOW here's the kicker .... Bullet #4 - We missed a 6.5 magnitude quake in the last 24hrs (11 days post departure), with the epicentre a mere 77km from where we stayed ! - I've crunched the numbers since the event. Had a localised tsunami greater than 30cms happened, we would have had less than an hour to react.
I'm old enough to remember the Newcastle earthquake of 1989. At the time, I lived over 250km away and that one registered at 5.6. Still strong enough to make me think my house would fall down - It bamboozles me what 6.5 quake from 77km away would be like (let alone an 8.9 like Japan !).
What's more .... I think I may have predicted it.
And it's not the first time clairvoyance has knocked on my door either.
I'm not a skeptic. I'm not affiliated with organised religion.
I believe in God in so much as, I believe "A" higher-power-slash-powerful-influence DOES effect us all from time to time. Call it "God", Call it "Karma". Call it "Luck" or call it "Fate" - I call them the "under-currents of the world". Some people say "what goes around, comes around" .... it's all of that, but the real answer is somewhere in between.
For me, it's like a wireless FM radio ... some times the reception is good. At others, nothing but static and cant hear a thing. Some nights I walk out the front door and it hits me that "drama is coming", or "trouble on the horizon". Occasionally I find myself thinking of the randomest people for no particular reason, only to find some time later, they were having their own life event at the same time ...
Below the end of this blog in a screen-capped excerpt of a conversation I had recently with our Guest Blog Contributor "Anna". She has evidenced this behaviour in me more than once now, and on a personal level when we had never met face to face, I sensed her pain to find out a dear relative has recently passed. Sure, THAT could have been a weird co-incidence. I'm logical enough to accept a one-off even if it's that close to the mark ... but read below and see clairvoyant event #2 for yourself.
13 hours or so before the quake hit - I deadset freak myself out sometimes !