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<p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px 20px;padding:0px;outline:0px"><font color="#414141" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="letter-spacing:-0.014666667208075523px;line-height:20.53333282470703px">The damage to the strawbale looks to be much as we anticipate....major cracking in the sacrificial stucco but the structure otherwise in tact.  It looks horrible, though, and Belinda is clearly shaken, but I don't see damage other than plaster cracks--no broken windows or toppled structure. The plaster obviously absorbed a great deal of the energy.</span></font></p>

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This TV spot sort of makes it look bad -- but the SB house is standing, when the neighborhood is not.  Courtesy of Hugh Morris, with a fancy nod to Graeme North.  Any of you Kiwis know which house this is?  Did you build it?</div>

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