Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Calis Beach Forum => Calis Beach Questions and Information => Topic started by: nichola on June 13, 2012, 21:19:46 PM
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I have stopped worrying about the spider with a body the size of a big toe nail and a leg span that is bigger than my open hand that is roaming freely in my living room ;D
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Nothing much! Be more careful crossing the road maybe. :)
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Have an extra beer every night to make sure I am not woken at some ungodly hour by a vibrating bed ;) :o
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I have stopped worrying about the spider with a body the size of a big toe nail and a leg span that is bigger than my open hand that is roaming freely in my living room ;D
Oh my goodness, I would have to move out! First thing I buy when I arrive in Calis is a bug spray for the cockies and spiders. Last autumn we were living in fear of the huge spiders here that seemed to have doubled in size. We even purchased a hand held vac to catch them as we are both "girlie" scared. Some were so big they wouldn't go up the dust-buster!!!
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Not read Facebook posts on the Earthquake
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Sadly after the 2004 earthquake I mentioned (where standing doing nothing like a wally was my choice of reaction) I didn't do anything different at all for later ones. Always went for the same - just standing wanting it all to go away :(
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Sadly after the 2004 earthquake I mentioned (where standing doing nothing like a wally was my choice of reaction) I didn't do anything different at all for later ones. Always went for the same - just standing wanting it all to go away :(
That is the a similar system that I have always used for all types of scary moments - and I'm still OK - well sort of.
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since the earthquake I am trying really hard not to sweat the small stuff in life :)all my years of worrying about everything and I have to say earthquakes was one of my worries of course I knew when we bought our house Turkey was on a fault line but I tried to push it to the back of my mind as deep down(excuse the pun) I never really thought I would ever experience one, I used to laugh and say trust me to fall in love with a country that is prone to earthquakes! and Sunday has kind of made me realise there are some things in life you just can not change. Sunday I was 100% never returning to Turkey ever and also still felt that way Monday, today after all that I have read on CBF and in particular Eric's advice and knowledge I am now slowly thinking about looking for flights for the summer.
I really am trying not to be such a worrier since Sunday so maybe some good has come out of it for me :)though I am not in a hurry to repeat the experience any time soon ;)
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I will wear sandals to go to the pool area so I can run on the stoned road around instead of going back in for them. !! Barrie said "while you are in there bring your purse" once a Yorkshireman always a Yorkshire man. lol. x
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Good for you Karennina; I know you were a tad upset and I am glad you found Eric's information useful.
I haven't read it all myself yet but I am aware that the tatty Migros carrier bag that constitutes Doğan's earthquake bag containing one pair of jeans, one pair of shorts, one pair of trousers, a pair of flip flops 2 1/2 litre bottles of water and a pack of my favourite biscuits is not yet up to scratch ;D
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LOL i had a cockroach in my kitchen last week and was paranoid there were more, everytime i went in there i turned the light on and looked around before stepping in there haha, last night mum asked me on skype if i had seen anymore i said i dont know dont care got bigger issues! still not quite got over that earthquake yet, i scared myself by watching a video from the 1999 one and that was a bad bad bad idea! its so ridiculous but i was too scared to get out of bed and go to the toilet the past few nights incase it happened and i were trapped in our tiny bathroom =/
im also sleeping with the door unlocked everynight so i can get out easier, not a wise idea maybe but cant bring myself to lock it!
oh and we only have one sturdy wooden table in the apartment which is normally on the balcony, but my bf makes me bring it indoors everynight now so i have somewhere to run under if i need to =/ it seems so silly when you think about it that none of us even thought about these things before sunday and now a lot of us are over panicking and turning into nut jobs. (oh wait, is that just me?! aha )
i was with my bf today at his uni in tasyaka ( it has 4 floors i think) and found myself thinking how on earth would we get out after an earthquake, etc etc etc. im turning into a real mess aha :(
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You really do need to get your head straight on this missdanni :)
The quake a few days ago was substantial - and there are no signs of structural damage in the area (apart from someone's hollow block gable end falling down - they are not structural). This is good. It will take a significantly bigger earthquake to bring your home down on your head (sorry) - but it will - and bigger than the "great earthquake" of 1957 which flattened a poorly constructed and structurally unsound Fethiye.
For once regulations in Turkey have a real purpose and a benefit - it is remarkable that an earthquake of this magnitude was resisted by nearly ever building. Proves the regulations did the job - so think through a plan in case you get another tremor in future, but really you don't need to over worry - the buildings done good :)
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One good thing that has come out of all of this is that we are educating ourselves about earthquakes, how to prepare and what to do and not do.
Nothing like a little wake up call to get us all motivated; who needs free seminars from the Belediye now ;)
At least we have the chance to do that and will be better prepared and at least know what is going on when the earth rumbles and shakes and not mistake it for a passing lorry :o
Have you checked Eric's new earthquake topic with lots of useful links and information missdanni :)
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Errrrm!!!! Since the earthquake I've stopped sleeping in the buff!!! I figure the sight of me fleeing the apartment in the altogether would be a great deal more frightening than 6.1 on the Richter Scale!!!!
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Am putting an earthquake bag together but where would you leave it, thought about putting it in the shed but there's no way I would be able to unlock it round the back of the house.............and do I really want a bag stuck by the front or back door until God forbid we get another. Sods law would be outside anyway :) Even though I turned in to a screamer at the time, I am not a worrier about the future and think what will be will be, and as my friends would know, I would be more concerned about how I am gonna make the next cuppa!!!!!
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Well, I for one am going to insist on Mr Pookie sleeping in undies in future !! the sight of him hot footing it out of the house into the olive groves with his 'bits adanglin' for all our turkish neighbours to see, doesn't bear thinking about !!!
we've always been aware of the danger, we often feel rumbles, and having been in a relatively big quake in the greek islands years ago, have feared it happening again. I think probably we forget that sometimes, and I what I will try to do differently, is remember the risk and in good girl guide fashion 'always be prepared'....
having said that....we had one in the uk a while ago....and that I was not prepared for !!! the house rumbled, the garage creeked and the light fitttings went banana, and the last thing I thought it could be was a quake !
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After suffering a heart attack last week, I must try not to worry too much about anything!!!
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After suffering a heart attack last week, I must try not to worry too much about anything!!!
Sorry to hear that and wish you a speedy and full recovery.
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Thanks Highlander. Bit of a shock but doing OK. Still coming to Calis for my 3 week fix in September.
Does anyone know of a reasonable travel insurance for this sort of thing?
(My name is Teresa by the way)
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Teresa - try American Express Travel Insurance. I obtained many quotes and was surprised that Amex charged an extra £0.00 to cover my declared medical conditions - and a very good policy/cover generally it is too. Good luck with everything - take it easy and remember, you are in a better situation health wise today than you were the day before your heart attack so that's great progress already ;)
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remember my first quake experience 20 years ago in Izmir. Couldnt sleep for weeks afterwards. Then there was the real big one in 99 that killed over 17000.
There have been many shakes since then but in the end of the day, you are more likely to be killed by a dolmus then an earthquake or a ghost tsunami.
Its happened and it will happen again, and it can happen anywhere, be it Fethiye, Istanbul or Cleethorpes. Just carry on.
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One thing I have noticed that I make sure I do now is to keep my mobile fully charged and carry that plus the charger with me everywhere I go.
With the right phone you can map your location (which might be important if you are in a rural area) and get messages of reassurance or for help to friends and family using 3G.
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Thought for holiday..Locate Nichola, stay with her she has it all sorted..-) See you next week
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lol Bernie - yes looking forward to seeing you next week - anniversary table all booked and waiting ;D
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remember my first quake experience 20 years ago in Izmir. Couldnt sleep for weeks afterwards. Then there was the real big one in 99 that killed over 17000.
There have been many shakes since then but in the end of the day, you are more likely to be killed by a dolmus then an earthquake or a ghost tsunami.
Its happened and it will happen again, and it can happen anywhere, be it Fethiye, Istanbul or Cleethorpes. Just carry on.
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Thanks Nichola, Terry and Sue, said they will join us for dessert and coffee after aswell. You know what I,m like, i,ll be sending the rest of the hotel up to you at some point!! Sylvia and ian from last year send their best to you both too.
I hope all these after shocks have finished, and you are feeling a tad more settled now. I,m not joking about finding you at the first sign of any rumbles or shakings, see you next week, really looking forward to it. xx ;) ;D 8)
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One thing to note about mobile phones after a big earthquake, they would generally end up being useless. When a big emergency happens, the networks get flooded and they close access down so only emergency services can use them. This happened in Istanbul in 99 and also in London during the bombings of 7/7.
In fact when I was at the Madonna concert a couple of weeks ago here the phone was useless as everyone was trying to make calls and the networks couldnt handle it.
What would be good to have on standby is water and plenty of it.
ın 99 the electric went off first, then mobile phones and landlines, gas and then finally water. The best way to find out what was happening is listening to the radio in the car so having a small battery operated radio would be useful too because straight after it happens, you wont know how close or far away you are to the center.
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After the earthquake a week ago Sunday the networks were down for a short while.
However I was still able to access 3G and get onto Facebook.
I totally appreciate that the networks will be down or even closed for a while after a serious quake, but not indefinitely. I also noted what Eric said about not using your phone to call friends and family.
But in reality in a situation like this I also acknowledge it is an unrealistic expectation that we will behave entirely rationally and for the greater good and as none of us can presume to know where we will be at the time of I hope never to be repeated experience the one thing I most definitely do want with me is a phone that works.
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It took 2 weeks for mobile phones to be working again after 99. Like I said, if it was a major quake then this will most likely happen. I dont think the recent one was classed as major but still it is enough to get people to be nervous and almost start not trusting the ground they walk on.
Like I said, most likely water would be the most precious thing at a time of a major event as it wont be coming out of the taps. You can survive for a couple of days without water, a lot longer without a mobile phone.
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"You can survive for a couple of days without water, a lot longer without a mobile phone".
That is true but its a bit like the emergency bag - unless you carry it around with you and that's not practical (I have seen Eric's list) you have to decide what is the most important things you want with you where ever you are.
My list is as follows:
- Water - although how much is enough especially in this heat
- Phone (plus charger) I live in a remote area that isn't densely populated and it probably wouldn't be a high priority area in the event of something so serious it required intervention from the emergency services and I like to think if I could make contact at some point at least some family and friends who would come over to dig me out ;)
- Passport/Kimlik/Permit so I can leave the country for a while if necessary
- Keys - one of my house doors needs a key to open it so I have to carry it if I am on that floor.
- Credit cards and cash to purchase water if I am not actually buried somewhere and there is plenty of bottled water to loot in the shops if necessary :)
- Whistle - yet to purchase
I know it is not totally adequate but it is what I can realistically carry with me everywhere I go. As for the rest I am sure survival instincts will kick in and we'll all do what ever is necessary. I hope we never have to find out ;D
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earthquake bags are all well and good but when it comes to the crunch, will you think of it. Everyone reacts differently to when this actually happens. I had a video camera under my bed when I was getting thrown around the room but didnt think once to get it.
Water usually takes sometime before it is turned off so having containers handy is useful.
Phone charger would be no good unless you use the one in the car but like I said, after a big one you wont get a connection.
credit cards would be useless too as they would need a mobile connection (POS machine) or hardline to work. Cash is king in these circumstances. Credit card would come handy for when you get to the airport.
On my list, most important things to have is torch, water & water containers, blankets, a tent, portable radio, batteries, crow bar and even condoms (great for storing non drinking water) but anything that relies on a mobile signal or mains electric would be pretty useless for the first couple of days or longer.
As I said, this is just my opinion after living through a 7.8 in 99 that killed over 17000.