Christchurch earthquakes

[SMOKEU]

Since that quake we just had, my house and the garden smells like shit. Literally. I can't figure out where the smell is coming from and I'm pretty sure I didn't shit myself.

[Padmei]

Bugger for you guys. Why can't they just stop for bloody christmas:mad:

[BEAMER89]

Bloody after shocks


Well l was doing a long over due oil and filter change on the R100GS today, bike was half a meter up in the air on a work stand/bench with me under it when Chch got a 5.8 after shock boy did l move (so did the bike though) bloody thing. oh well all ready for Pukekohe Classic Festival Feb. just hope Chch stops moving by then or she inside wont let me go :-)

[Shadowjack]

Just when I'd taken "Geonet-Recent Quakes" off my Favourites...

[Hopeful Bastard]

And another one... Felt bigger apparently :(

:love: to all down there

[Freespaceage]

Just when we were starting to relax and forget about the quakes, we get a nasty reminder. We were in the Riccarton Mall when the 5.8 struck - the whole mall shook like crazy. pieces of ceiling fell down, shops displays fell over and people panicking like crazy. A nasty reminder...........

[onearmedbandit]

Fuck that! Two massive aftershocks, nerves are fucked, saw dust clouds erupt in town. Malls are closed, that's fucked Xmas trading. Apparently more of Sumner is in the water. Went home quickly to check the bikes, both fine but no power and minor liquefaction out the front.

[mashman]

And another one... Felt bigger apparently :(

:love: to all down there

Geonet listing it as a 6.0 @ 6k depth

+1 on the :love:

[Madness]

Respect to all who have decided to stay in Christchurch after all the shaking in the past year. I would have upped sticks a long time ago.

Take care down there fullas. Smokeu, you sure you didn't crap just a little rasin?

[SMOKEU]

Smokeu, you sure you didn't crap just a little rasin?

I'm pretty sure it's not that ay. Could be a burst sewer pipe or something.

[KiwiPhoenix]

Thankfully all good here. Bikes were upright but I can tell you being in the 3rd of the hospital working is not a nice place to be. Ceiling collasped and desks are a mess. I'm just thankful the stairwells were ok to let us get away!

Hope everyone is ok?

[Brian d marge]

fully understand that stress, hang in there....it sneaks up in so many ways....

stephen

[jasonu]

My wife works on a cruise ship that was somewhere between Akaroa and Wellington and they felt it.
I was on the phone to her and heard the captain make an announcement explaining what the 'unusual' vibrations were.

[RiderInBlack]

Bugger Dudes and Dudettes, Our Thoughts are with ya all. I can't stop the shakes for ya, but let us know if ya need help, and what we else can do for ya OK.

[Cloggy]

Is it a co-incidence that the moon was close to earth again yesterday (moon perigee)?

[Grumph]

In sequoia88 at redwood when it hit...luckily we'd just about finished as it's bloody prepay !!! Water everywhere and women having panic attacks...deja vu all over again.
Had to go to Bromley to deliver elderly auntie home...car shaking frequently.
Then to pick up some bits from a mate in Burwood - 2nd big one hit just round the corner from his place. Shook the car hard & watched a bus stop sign go through a 45 degree arc....mmmm. Broken water mains there and liquefaction.

Then home way out west and into the Bourbon....

No significant damage apparently except to residents nerves....how many who were staying home this Xmas will now go away ?

[Mom]

As before, anyone want a shake free holiday is welcome to come crash at ours for a bit.

[Rashika]

how many who were staying home this Xmas will now go away ?

that thought has crossed my mind... except the only place I would likely go would be Nelson: shakes or floods? :wacko:

[Shadows]

Is it a co-incidence that the moon was close to earth again yesterday (moon perigee)?

Fuck off Ken

[Grumph]

You or your neighbours got a septic tank ?

Out here a lot cracked up in September - first symptom was smell....

[98tls]

When things started swaying down here in Oamaru i thought "fuck here we go again",after about 1/2 an hour trying i finally got through to my 70 year old mum who was busy picking stuff off the floor (again).I knew things were not to bad when once again she said "oh well dear things can always be worse i could have to live my life in Dunedin";)Got to love that Canterbury spirit.

[ellipsis]

Fuck off Ken

+1 to that shit....

[SMOKEU]

You or your neighbours got a septic tank ?

Out here a lot cracked up in September - first symptom was smell....

Nope. And the smell has disappeared now so it's all good.

[babysteps]

Motherfu*$ing Earthquake broke my Motherfu*$ing handlebars!

On a positive note I don't need any welding! Hope the rest of you are ok!

[cold comfort]

W.I knew things were not to bad when once again she said "oh well dear things can always be worse i could have to live my life in Dunedin";)Got to love that Canterbury spirit.

Haha,-excellent. My daughter would not move even if she had to live in a tent. Lived in Canterbury for 20yrs and i don't know anyone who has left.

[neels]

Magnitude 6 earthquake is interesting on the pushbike :crazy:

Good bastard at the bottle store was still trading in the midst of a sea of broken bottles so I could pick up some supplies and head home.

Ducati arsed up in the second shake but the gsxr250 broke it's fall so no damage done, trail bike was on it's side in the shed so hopefully that might have straightened it's bent handlebars.

Actually had some stuff fall down and break this time, nothing major just pain in the arse stuff and lots of things to pick up in the garage, and a bit more liquefaction just for good measure.

Fucking over it.

[far queue]

Things had settled down so I'd stopped tying the bike to the rafters, so of course it fell over, and has now resumed being tied to the rafters again. Water stayed on this time, but power out again for 5 1/2 hours, back on now. Lots of stuff over and out again, but nothing important broke, the good stuff went in Feb. I can't be fucked picking everything up again, it's safe where it is for now, I'll have a tidy up in the morning.

[Oakie]

Bike had a wee lie down for the second one but since Feb I've always parked my bike in gear with something on the right to break it's fall. Accordinlgly it had a wee lie down against my apricot tree so all it cost me was a wee nick in the seat where the trunk caught it.

[Brian d marge]

In sequoia88 at redwood when it hit...luckily we'd just about finished as it's bloody prepay !!! Water everywhere and women having panic attacks...deja vu all over again.
Had to go to Bromley to deliver elderly auntie home...car shaking frequently.
Then to pick up some bits from a mate in Burwood - 2nd big one hit just round the corner from his place. Shook the car hard & watched a bus stop sign go through a 45 degree arc....mmmm. Broken water mains there and liquefaction.

Then home way out west and into the Bourbon....

No significant damage apparently except to residents nerves....how many who were staying home this Xmas will now go away ?

Sounds like the engine mounts are loose ...had an old hillman minx that used to go like that ....

Stephen

[dangerous]

Magnitude 6 earthquake is interesting on the pushbike :crazy:

Good bastard at the bottle store was still trading in the midst of a sea of broken bottles so I could pick up some supplies and head home.

Ducati arsed up in the second shake but the gsxr250 broke it's fall so no damage done, trail bike was on it's side in the shed so hopefully that might have straightened it's bent handlebars.

Actually had some stuff fall down and break this time, nothing major just pain in the arse stuff and lots of things to pick up in the garage, and a bit more liquefaction just for good measure.

Fucking over it.

Fark man, I understand why you guys out there and those in the east are 'farking over it' and it might be easy to say but get out move on or get used to it, I cant see it stopping myself, all the best and remember if ya need a hand.

Re bikes arsing up... christ I couldnt believe after sept 10 people didnt chock or teather their bikes, 8000 quakes later and there are still those not doing it :brick: however must admit I have been a bit slack of late :crazy:

Well... this time around it was a bit dufferent for me as a manager at Orana park emediat emergancy procedures took over, I had to check all dangerous anamil habatats and public buildings out, the cats were un fazed but the monkeys went nato.
some people overseas visitors had no idea what it was and carried on as they were, locals droped things and ran.

[Grumph]

Sounds like the engine mounts are loose ...had an old hillman minx that used to go like that ....

Stephen

Nah, most of the shaking was the elderly auntie and the wife....
I still maintain that when Tokyo melts down your Enfield will survive - and probably be rideable.

Just had a good one roll through - it's either the greendale fault locally or a big one around ChCh...

[Kickaha]

Nah, most of the shaking was the elderly auntie and the wife....
I still maintain that when Tokyo melts down your Enfield will survive - and probably be rideable.

Just had a good one roll through - it's either the greendale fault locally or a big one around ChCh...

Chch I'd say, felt it out here

[whowhatwhere]

Meh, I think we're all used to it now. Not phased any more. Usual routine - shit falls over, leave it there for a day or two otherwise it'll all come down again.

[lakedaemonian]

Two big knocks here in town yesterday.

The only disappointing thing is that people were getting pretty settled....nothing noticeably felt since about late September/ early October(bar a tiny one last weekend).

I just fall back on the law of the conservation of energy: It can neither be created, nor destroyed.

So each of these mag 6 quakes, means I don't have to deal with ten 5's, a hundred 4's, or a thousand 3's.

While energy released from one quake can partially "load" one or more other local faults the total amount of energy left in the earthquake energy "tank" will be running down substantially with each quake.

Although if there's a perpetual motion machine that works under Canterbury, then I reckon we've got a bigger problem.

[Oakie]

Just when we were starting to relax and forget about the quakes, we get a nasty reminder. We were in the Riccarton Mall when the 5.8 struck - the whole mall shook like crazy. pieces of ceiling fell down, shops displays fell over and people panicking like crazy. A nasty reminder...........

My 5yr old grandaughter was there at the time. After the screaming stopped she went to check and make sure Santa was OK.

[FJRider]

My 5yr old grandaughter was there at the time. After the screaming stopped she went to check and make sure Santa was OK.

Even 5 year olds have priorities ...

[dangerous]

- it's either the greendale fault locally or a big one around ChCh...
beter farking not be, just got a floor down, and there goes the insurance out the door again, not that we have a door yet... anyways not Greendale its the fult they been woundering about off Pegasus.

[Padmei]

Although if there's a perpetual motion machine that works under Canterbury, then I reckon we've got a bigger problem.

You think:crazy:
Only 8000 earthquakes & you're thinking there might be something happening down there?

[Grumph]

beter farking not be, just got a floor down, and there goes the insurance out the door again, not that we have a door yet... anyways not Greendale its the fult they been woundering about off Pegasus.

Yeah, but you just concentrate on getting along with the apes...treat them like your bucket racer mates on "P"....walk carefully around them.

I was half expecting this shower of quakes...the house was finally signed off on Wednesday. Quite a good job in the end even if it took them two goes to get the log burner approved. And 5 months of work.....

[Kickaha]

Yeah, but you just concentrate on getting along with the apes...treat them like your bucket racer mates on "P"....walk carefully around them..

He'll be quite safe, he's with family

[dangerous]

Yeah, thanks Kickaha :msn-wink:
Well there will be some not so impressed people after this mornings rumblings...
5.1
4.3
3.5
3.8
5.5
4.1
4.1
not a bad start to the new year :rolleyes:

[orangeback]

Yeah, thanks Kickaha :msn-wink:
Well there will be some not so impressed people after this mornings rumblings...
5.1
4.3
3.5
3.8
5.5
4.1
4.1
not a bad start to the new year :rolleyes:

great when you have a 55kg dog get high strung about them and end up on the bed all night. as well as the kid comes trundling down yabbering away. = fack all sleep

using the time to finally secure TV's to wall after loosing 4 now

[Kickaha]

The 5.5 did wake me up but I slept through the rest of them

[far queue]

I’ve just finished reading a book about a kiwi soldiers experiences during the war, and in it he mentioned a big earthquake in the North Island with lots of aftershocks just like ours, so I had a hunt around and found this article. It sounds remarkably like our ones, particularly the number of aftershocks over a long period and the frequent big ones doing more damage. So I guess what we're putting up with isn't all that abnormal after all, and all will be fine in time.

A Night of Terror - The 1942 Earthquake (http://www.library.mstn.govt.nz/history/earthquake.html)

[Subike]

I’ve just finished reading a book about a kiwi soldiers experiences during the war, and in it he mentioned a big earthquake in the North Island with lots of aftershocks just like ours, so I had a hunt around and found this article. It sounds remarkably like our ones, particularly the number of aftershocks over a long period and the frequent big ones doing more damage. So I guess what we're putting up with isn't all that abnormal after all, and all will be fine in time.

A Night of Terror - The 1942 Earthquake (http://www.library.mstn.govt.nz/history/earthquake.html)

they had one big advantage over us, no friggin insurance companies moaning of loosing their profits

[dangerous]

great when you have a 55kg dog get high strung about them and end up on the bed all night. as well as the kid comes trundling down yabbering away. = fack all sleep

using the time to finally secure TV's to wall after loosing 4 now

sounds like the dog needs a diet, shit a grogie from a mutt like that must weigh a easy 5kg on its own :rolleyes:
Both boys as usual slept through em all again, bar the 5 oclocker which is when they wake anyways :(
Cant believe theres still people not scuring TV's, wall units and bikes after more than 2yrs of this.


I’ve just finished reading a book about a kiwi soldiers experiences during the war, and in it he mentioned a big earthquake in the North Island with lots of aftershocks just like ours, so I had a hunt around and found this article. It sounds remarkably like our ones, particularly the number of aftershocks over a long period and the frequent big ones doing more damage. So I guess what we're putting up with isn't all that abnormal after all, and all will be fine in time.


A Night of Terror - The 1942 Earthquake (http://www.library.mstn.govt.nz/history/earthquake.html)
So its us whities fault huh? "Major earthquakes have been a prominent feature of living in Wairarapa for almost as long as pakeha has lived in the area. The first whalers and sealers were upset by earthquakes in the early 1840s, and the first farmers on the plains were rocked by the major 1848 shake."
Nothings new we live on a serious fault, called New Zealand.

[onearmedbandit]

Cant believe theres still people not scuring TV's, wall units and bikes after more than 2yrs of this.


Think last nights quake might've knocked you on the head mate. More than 2yrs?

[Hopeful Bastard]

Think last nights quake might've knocked you on the head mate. More than 2yrs?

Well it did start in 2010.... And its now 2012. So he is kinda right..


Although, ya really need to wait till 4th Sep to call it 2 years...

[Grumph]

using the time to finally secure TV's to wall after loosing 4 now

Jeez, even the elderly auntie mentioned in my last posts is clued up enough to leave a chair in front of her TV....at age 88

[MIXONE]

My wife and two boys are still in Chchur.Can't wait for them to come back home safely.

[Brian d marge]

Sorry about that, we had a shake yesterday. I was bottling beer and told the man upstairs that if any beer was spilt I would not be happy
he must have had a few quakes left over...sorry bout that
might start using plastic bottle from now on...
stephen

[dangerous]

Think last nights quake might've knocked you on the head mate. More than 2yrs?ahhh lets call it old age, or the ginger is melting in, or as posted below, err now above, fark man quakes in 2010, 2011 and now 2012, it sure fells like 2 years worth.

[orangeback]

sounds like the dog needs a diet, shit a grogie from a mutt like that must weigh a easy 5kg on its own :rolleyes:
.
254276
55 k is good, my mate got one at 90 and another at 103
as for the TV well they are fucked anyway from earlier quakes.

[Oakie]

The TV is about the only major thing here I haven't made earthquake-safe. Reason being that I made the cabinet for it myself and for those frequent times when you have to move it to get at cabling, I put little wheels under it so it's easy to move. Now when we get an earthquake, the cabinet moves and the TV stays stable on top of it. Complete 'unintended consequence' but it works a treat.

[dangerous]

254276
55 k is good, my mate got one at 90 and another at 103
as for the TV well they are fucked anyway from earlier quakes.
Ya shitting me? 90 and 100kg... no way man.
LilM's Mastiff was a big piece a lard at 50kg, bout the same as her, but a 100 :weird:
Had a cat at work today break anothers fema, tossed him 3 times, then again Carn the wee puss weighs near 300kg :lol: Now I have to modifie a den on my day off to suit the one that came out 2nd best.

[98tls]

Ya shitting me? 90 and 100kg... no way man.
LilM's Mastiff was a big piece a lard at 50kg, bout the same as her, but a 100 :weird:
Had a cat at work today break anothers fema, tossed him 3 times, then again Carn the wee puss weighs near 300kg :lol: Now I have to modifie a den on my day off to suit the one that came out 2nd best.

Had a mate and his mrs call in today with a 20 week old Bernese mountain dog,farkin thing still had puppy fur but was the size of my 18 month old Border Collie,said the thing shits like a horse already.

[jasonu]

The TV is about the only major thing here I haven't made earthquake-safe. Reason being that I made the cabinet for it myself and for those frequent times when you have to move it to get at cabling, I put little wheels under it so it's easy to move. Now when we get an earthquake, the cabinet moves and the TV stays stable on top of it. Complete 'unintended consequence' but it works a treat.

Patent it and sell 'em on tardeme.

[98tls]

254276
55 k is good, my mate got one at 90 and another at 103
as for the TV well they are fucked anyway from earlier quakes.

You gotta be kidding,90/103...cant be so,surely.

[onearmedbandit]

http://www.worldslargestdog1.com/

Current record holder is an English Mastiff at 127kg. Heaviest was Zorba, again an English Mastiff at 156kg. 8ft from head to tail and 37" tall at the shoulder.

[orangeback]

You gotta be kidding,90/103...cant be so,surely.
call in to LeedingSign Design he often there

[98tls]

call in to LeedingSign Design he often there

Bloody hell,showed the pic to the mrs which returned "ohhhhh hes gorgeous look at his beautiful eyes".:lol:

[whowhatwhere]

Can't bloody get back to sleep after that one

[Rashika]

I know I felt it but I just had farken annoying angry dreams after it instead of being awake half the night for a change... FARK OFFFFFFFFFF!

[cruza]

I know I felt it but I just had farken annoying angry dreams after it instead of being awake half the night for a change... FARK OFFFFFFFFFF!

by annoying dreams ...you mean dangerous:wait:

[Kickaha]

by annoying dreams ...you mean dangerous:wait:

That would be more a nightmare than a dream

[Grumph]

At the GP practise day Friday, I was talking to the MNZ stewards, in the event of a quake, they've appointed a safe assembly point outside the clubrooms....when this was mentioned the first question asked of course was "will the bar be opened ?"...
All the buildings will have to be cleared too which means red flagging any race on at the time as the tower will be cleared.

It gets complicated doesn't it.

I'll bet some of the out of towners are a bit bleary eyed this morning....

[JimO]

i dont know about anybody else but if i lived in CHCH and wasnt stuck with a house i couldnt sell i would be out of there, fuck waiting up up 30 years for it to settle down

[Subike]

i dont know about anybody else but if i lived in CHCH and wasnt stuck with a house i couldnt sell i would be out of there, fuck waiting up up 30 years for it to settle down

well you dont live here, so you dont have a problem
just remember there are heaps of us who love this place, our history is here, our families are here
and some of us are direct decendants of those who dug it out of the mud.
my family has been here since 1847,
only rats leave a sinking ship

[onearmedbandit]

i dont know about anybody else but if i lived in CHCH and wasnt stuck with a house i couldnt sell i would be out of there, fuck waiting up up 30 years for it to settle down

Different horses for courses I suppose. Sure it can be trying at times, roads are in a state, no CBD to speak of, constant shakes. But this is my home.

[JimO]

well you dont live here, so you dont have a problem
just remember there are heaps of us who love this place, our history is here, our families are here
and some of us are direct decendants of those who dug it out of the mud.
my family has been here since 1847,
only rats leave a sinking ship


perhaps your descendants could have dug it out of the mud in a slightly better place, one thing for sure good luck building or rebuilding in the next few years if you need a mortgage and or insurance, its bad enough here with insurance companies running scared of earthquake cover, anyhoo i would rather be a rat living a comfortable life in another part of NZ than living in ChCh waiting for the next shake

[Subike]

perhaps your descendants could have dug it out of the mud in a slightly better place, one thing for sure good luck building or rebuilding in the next few years if you need a mortgage and or insurance, its bad enough here with insurance companies running scared of earthquake cover, anyhoo i would rather be a rat living a comfortable life in another part of NZ than living in ChCh waiting for the next shake

there have been shakes in Christchurch since before the city was built, all ways will be,
we have averaged 20 a week, but most are under 2.5, since recording began.
the amount of damaged houses would not have happened
if it was not for greedy property developers building where they were advised not to build,
and corrupt city councilors who only saw an increase in rates for their coffer
or that bottle of champers at the parties thrown for them.
The rest of New Zealand is just as prone to having shakes,
we just got it first,
As for insurance companies, well, IMO, just a bunch of greedy buggers started the business many years ago,
and we have all been sucked into being on their money grabbing fiasco world wide.

[Grumph]

perhaps your descendants could have dug it out of the mud in a slightly better place, one thing for sure good luck building or rebuilding in the next few years if you need a mortgage and or insurance, its bad enough here with insurance companies running scared of earthquake cover, anyhoo i would rather be a rat living a comfortable life in another part of NZ than living in ChCh waiting for the next shake

Thank you for any money you may have given to the ChCh appeal....and any fleeting sympathetic thought you may have had.

may i courteously point out that Dunedin is geologically very similar to ChCh and hence just as likely to have the same things happen.

After that and not so courteously, please fuck off to Australia - they deserve you.

[dangerous]

anyhoo i would rather be a rat living a comfortable life in another part of NZ than living in ChCh waiting for the next shake
Ohhhhh JimO... you do relise theres a much larger chance of a serious quake in your town or anywere else in NZ than ChCh... Id be worried if I was you :shifty:

[neels]

Well some of us are making plans to stay :niceone:

Offer accepted on the next house, now to sort the paperwork...

[Rashika]

Well some of us are making plans to stay :niceone:

Offer accepted on the next house, now to sort the paperwork...

thats good news! Nice to have something better than just shakes to look forward to :niceone:

[neels]

thats good news! Nice to have something better than just shakes to look forward to :niceone:

It better happen, looking forward to a separate garage just for motorbikes & pushbikes, and a reasonable mancave sort of area....

[Kickaha]

i dont know about anybody else but if i lived in CHCH and wasnt stuck with a house i couldnt sell i would be out of there, fuck waiting up up 30 years for it to settle down


You sound like the sort of soft cock we'd be better off without anyway

Home is here, Job is here, neither of which have suffered any damage so I have no reason to move

[JimO]

Thank you for any money you may have given to the ChCh appeal....and any fleeting sympathetic thought you may have had.

may i courteously point out that Dunedin is geologically very similar to ChCh and hence just as likely to have the same things happen.

After that and not so courteously, please fuck off to Australia - they deserve you.


wow..angry man.. yes i have donated money to ChCh and i also still feel sorry for people living there, i agree the same thing could have happened here and still could, im not intending to shift to Australia so tanks all the same

[JimO]

You sound like the sort of soft cock we'd be better off without anyway

Home is here, Job is here, neither of which have suffered any damage so I have no reason to move


another angry man, i could make a fortune working in ChCh when (if) the rebuild starts but there is more to life than money eh, seeing as how im a soft cock

[Oakie]

i dont know about anybody else but if i lived in CHCH and wasnt stuck with a house i couldnt sell i would be out of there, fuck waiting up up 30 years for it to settle down

Oh at least it'll give us something in common to talk about for a while.

Seriously, I was talking to my 81 year old mum today about earthquake effects including suicides which were picked by psych people to rise after Sept '10 and are actually at a lower than normal rate. Mum said that it's probably because everyone is prepared to share their earthquake stories so no one is bottling up this biggest stressor in most of our lives. The stress is released by talking about it on a daily basis with family, neighbours, workmates and complete strangers (who aren't really strangers because they've suffered in exactly the same way we all have). While the earthquakes have stuffed up the physical town, how we deal with it has increased the sense of community down here in a way that nothing else could have. That's why a lot of us won't leave. For better or worse, this is where we feel at home.

Oh, I have no disrespect for anyone who has left. We all had our own decisions to make and everyone's circumstances are different.

[Grumph]

another angry man, i could make a fortune working in ChCh when (if) the rebuild starts but there is more to life than money eh, seeing as how im a soft cock

That's another bullshit myth...the only outfit making any money from EQC work is Fletchers. If you're not registered with Fletchers you won't get any EQC work...period. And Fletchers are forcing the subbies to work at rates they approve....low !

Any insurance company work - and there's been very little approved so far - will go to the lowest tenderer in a competitive market.

Commercial work will be the same - lowest tenderer, and because of the size of the jobs it will always be the big players who get the contracts. They are the outfits who may well use imported labour too...

[Virago]

Ohhhhh JimO... you do relise theres a much larger chance of a serious quake in your town or anywere else in NZ than ChCh... Id be worried if I was you :shifty:

Yup. Dunedin is frightening similar to Christchurch.

We have an off-shore fault-line which has given us a few little warnings over the years. When is the big one...?

Our seaward suburbs (and many industrial areas) are built on reclaimed land - some of it is marginally below sea-level. Being in South Dunedin during even a minor shake makes you feel seasick - it's like standing on jelly.

While our main CBD is mostly on solid land, we have a huge proportion of historic heritage buildings - many of which are only held together by gravity.

The misery in Christchurch should be a wake-up call for Dunedin residents.

[Kickaha]

Yup. Dunedin is frightening similar to Christchurch.

We have an off-shore fault-line which has given us a few little warnings over the years. When is the big one...?

Our seaward suburbs (and many industrial areas) are built on reclaimed land - some of it is marginally below sea-level. Being in South Dunedin during even a minor shake makes you feel seasick - it's like standing on jelly.

While our main CBD is mostly on solid land, we have a huge proportion of historic heritage buildings - many of which are only held together by gravity.

The misery in Christchurch should be a wake-up call for Dunedin residents.

Dunedin is considered one of the safer places, 1974 was the last decent sized one down there but that's not to say it couldn't happen tomorrow and you did have Abbottsford as well

They were looking at some Taieri faultlines as well
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/150965/dunedin-residents-should-not-be-complacent

[JMemonic]

Yup. Dunedin is frightening similar to Christchurch.

We have an off-shore fault-line which has given us a few little warnings over the years. When is the big one...?

Our seaward suburbs (and many industrial areas) are built on reclaimed land - some of it is marginally below sea-level. Being in South Dunedin during even a minor shake makes you feel seasick - it's like standing on jelly.

While our main CBD is mostly on solid land, we have a huge proportion of historic heritage buildings - many of which are only held together by gravity.

The misery in Christchurch should be a wake-up call for Dunedin residents.

It should be a wake up for all of NZ, we have had two previously unknown fault lines wreck the place, anyone who is of the opinion that their location has no known fault lines so they are ok needs a kick up the arse.

Sorry Virago not having a crack at you here just thought I would tack onto your comment.

[JimO]

you did have Abbottsford as well

They were looking at some Taieri faultlines as well
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/150965/dunedin-residents-should-not-be-complacent

Abbotsford was a different kettle of kippers

[dangerous]

That's another bullshit myth...the only outfit making any money from EQC work is Fletchers....and the fuckers that are ripping the system (country) OFF




wow..angry man.. well mate, you will find a few of them up here... cant blame em unless ya been through it ya can never understand, its the hole atmosphere. The city will never be the same and neither will the people.
I've left chch but not for the reasons you may think, quakes dont bother me in the least, but the attude of the people do, having being involved with repair work, fletchers, EQR and the cunts of clients etc I now work and live out west.
Those that stay and battle on have my resepct, fuck man ya more likely to die on ya way to work on Monday.




Well some of us are making plans to stay :niceone:

Offer accepted on the next house, now to sort the paperwork...good shit guys, catch up soon yeah ohh and ya put an offer in on the paddock next to ours yet :niceone:

[Kickaha]

Abbotsford was a different kettle of kippers

Still a disaster of sorts even if not earthquake related

[98tls]

Jimmy your having a laugh surely,Tsunami survivers in Japan even said (excuse the translation) "things could be worse we could have to live in Dunedin" .

[dangerous]

fuck M... thats not bad for you :laugh:

[FJRider]

They only sad that ... because they've never heard of Oamaru ... :bleh:

[98tls]

fuck M... thats not bad for you :laugh:

Mate if there was a similar sized quake in Dunners nobody would notice,still be the same depressing misty shithole its always been.I had the misfortune to land over the bridge years back and stay,havent been down to that shithole for over a decade and if i need to buy anything outta town i just head home.:niceone:

[98tls]

They only sad that ... because they've never heard of Oamaru ... :bleh:

You sir have my respect,no toes,fingers and still you post up.:niceone:

[FJRider]

You sir have my respect,no toes,fingers and still you post up.:niceone:

I do actually ... but with the webbing, it's hard to see ... <_<

[neels]

Mate if there was a similar sized quake in Dunners nobody would notice,still be the same depressing misty shithole its always been.
Would be much like christchurch, a lot less shitty old buildings that nobody gave a fuck about before the earthquake, but suddenly become heritage that needs to be saved with other peoples money.

[ellipsis]

...if it aint a 5 its hardly a matter of discussion...keeps you on your toes and makes a lot of people think about a lot of stuff that may never have entered their thoughts before...and we have devised a fairly foolproof shelving system that seems to be 99% effective, the floor is the big shelf and the plank supported by one brick either end works well too...

[JimO]

I had the misfortune to land over the bridge years back and stay,havent been down to that shithole for over a decade and if i need to buy anything outta town i just head home.:niceone:

i heard that you dont come here because that old ford cant make it over the kilmog:bleh:

[Subike]

i heard that you dont come here because that old ford cant make it over the kilmog:bleh:


thats only because its blocked with over heating dunnydoors

[98tls]

i heard that you dont come here because that old ford cant make it over the kilmog:bleh:

Remember waking one morning years back and turning on the radio,the DJ was most excited as it had apparently stopped raining in Dunedin:shit:,i said to the Mrs "how about we go to Dunners its stopped raining?"she replied "you silly prick its April 1st there just having a laugh".:confused:

[JimO]

Remember waking one morning years back and turning on the radio,the DJ was most excited as it had apparently stopped raining in Dunedin:shit:,i said to the Mrs "how about we go to Dunners its stopped raining?"she replied "you silly prick its April 1st there just having a laugh".:confused:


suck on this........http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/193444/were-living-sunny-south-official

[98tls]

suck on this........http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/193444/were-living-sunny-south-official

Jimmy you dont believe that shite do ya?The ODT were approached by Dunedin hospital whose run out of beds due to them being filled up with rain depressed southern people,they asked if they could print some good weather news to try and improve moral down there,happens every summer.

[98tls]

Would be much like christchurch, a lot less shitty old buildings that nobody gave a fuck about before the earthquake, but suddenly become heritage that needs to be saved with other peoples money.

At least in Christchurch you can see the buildings, down there you cant see shit on account of the thick wet depressing constant drizzle.:niceone:

[Virago]

Remember waking one morning years back and turning on the radio,the DJ was most excited as it had apparently stopped raining in Dunedin:shit:,i said to the Mrs "how about we go to Dunners its stopped raining?"she replied "you silly prick its April 1st there just having a laugh".:confused:

Jeez, mate - Oamaru is SH1's version of the "pit lane penalty drive-through" - all you can do is suffer through to the other end and hope that you don't lose the will to live in the process.

Oamaru's only claim-to-fame is bloody penguins - and you're not allowed to eat the fuckers...

[98tls]

Jeez, mate - Oamaru is SH1's version of the "pit lane penalty drive-through" - all you can do is suffer through to the other end and hope that you don't lose the will to live in the process.

Oamaru's only claim-to-fame is bloody penguins - and you're not allowed to eat the fuckers...

:niceone::laugh:Indeed mate though a great place to kick back and head into old age,sure as fuck wouldnt be here if i was born here.That said my hometowns just up the road and we get to see the sun on a regular basis unlike Dunners,the transition from living in Dunedin to death would be barely noticeable.

[FJRider]

Jeez, mate - Oamaru is SH1's version of the "pit lane penalty drive-through" - all you can do is suffer through to the other end and hope that you don't lose the will to live in the process.


http://maps.google.co.nz/maps?q=Oamaru,+Otago&hl=en&ll=-45.108628,170.918137&spn=0.000015,0.006856&sll=-41.244772,172.617188&sspn=32.480002,56.162109&vpsrc=6&hnear=Oamaru,+Otago&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=-45.108409,170.918661&panoid=d-eq_fYeA40DaEnBZeSb8Q&cbp=12,24.58,,0,-12.5

Turn left here onto Whiterocks rd ... follow it through ... onto Airedale rd ... Horse Gully rd. Turn left onto the Oamaru-Kurow highway ... then the first right onto Gibson rd. Then right onto Seven Mile rd ... and follow it untill you reach Highway one. :yes:

A bloody good ride too ...


Oamaru's only claim-to-fame is bloody penguins - and you're not allowed to eat the fuckers...

KFC there sell very tall chicken ... :confused:

[98tls]

When asked about the conditions a holocaust survivor was reported to have said "things could always be worse i could have been forced to spend a year in Dunedin".:shit:

[JMemonic]

Jeez, mate - Oamaru is SH1's version of the "pit lane penalty drive-through" - all you can do is suffer through to the other end and hope that you don't lose the will to live in the process.

Oamaru's only claim-to-fame is bloody penguins - and you're not allowed to eat the fuckers...

Not quite there is Whitestone cheese as a tasty diversion.

But I do agree I could not live in Dunedin again, been there tried it, didn't even get the tee shirt.

[JimO]

years ago i used to windsurf and was talking to a American who was from Boston (i think) he asked if we sailed during the winter, i said na it gets a bit cold, he asked if the harbour iced over in the winter, where he sailed in the winter there were icebergs

[scumdog]

suck on this........http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/193444/were-living-sunny-south-official

Don't forget: We in Las Clutha got even more sunshine than Dunners mate!:Punk:

[Oakie]

Oamaru's only claim-to-fame is bloody penguins -

Nah uh! I lost my virginity in Oamaru! Of course I lived there from age 4 to 27 so you would hope I would have.

The Airedale Road / Horse Gully Road detour described before is a good route too. Speaking of that, I tried to lose my virginity near Horse Gully Rd but that didn't turn out so good.

[FJRider]

Nah uh! I lost my virginity in Oamaru! Of course I lived there from age 4 to 27 so you would hope I would have.

Why Jesus wasn't born in Oamaru ... they couldn't find three wise men ... AND a virgin ... :facepalm:

[Berries]

Speaking of that, I tried to lose my virginity near Horse Gully Rd but that didn't turn out so good.
What? No horses?

[FJRider]

What? No horses?

Compared to Oamaru girls .... the horses look good ... <_<

[FJRider]

The Airedale Road / Horse Gully Road detour described before is a good route too.

A loop from Oamaru ... with a stop at "Scott Base" is a nice run ...

[RiderInBlack]

Compared to Oamaru girls .... the horses look good ... <_<Don't get pissed at Hokitika Wild Food feast then. Hoki girls make Oamaru Girls look good. When ya sober up:eek5:, ya run for the door only ta find that she's locked ya in :gob: Was one of me most frighten experiences of my life LOL. Luckily I found a window ta squeeze my way out of :sweatdrop Now Dunedin Girls are just fine :Punk:

[Swoop]

After that and not so courteously, please fuck off to Australia...
A friend is running a motor camp out from CHCH and he has a few comments which have been entertaining. He does, however, have a large amount of families who have sold up or simply taken the money offered and then ran.
A lot of people who have decided to gtfo and either head to Oz or there are some who have yet to decide which place in NZ to move to.

Another friend who has been through absolute shit over the past three years, is staying put. She has had enough of wobbly ground and constantly destroyed house contents, shrieking kids who cannot stand another event, relationship stresses and everything else that goes along with living in the area. Thank goodness they have gone camping in another part of the South Island for some rest.

[Oakie]

What? No horses?
There were actually. The young lady I was seeing at the time who lived out there had one. The young lady was more attractive though.


Compared to Oamaru girls .... the horses look good ... <_<
A guy I used to work with in Oamaru who trained horses as a hobby was prosecuted for having sexual relations with a horse. Must have stood on a chair as he was not that tall.


A loop from Oamaru ... with a stop at "Scott Base" is a nice run ...
Ahh. 'Scott Base'. Previously known as 'The Richmond Motor Inn' I believe and prior to that ... 'The Rehalan' (sp?) about 35 years ago. It's where us yunguns used to go to try and get booze

[Hinny]

A guy I used to work with in Oamaru who trained horses as a hobby was prosecuted for having sexual relations with a horse. Must have stood on a chair as he was not that tall.


A prominent real estate agent, I used to know in Dn., when asked how his race horse was getting on replied they had to put it down as it had contracted Syphylis - from the jockey.
He added, after the hullabaloo from the gathered clan died down, that they got shots for the jockey and shot the horse. He thought it should have been the other way round. Cure the horse and shoot the fucking jockey.

[Oakie]

I also know a guy who did jail time for porking a nanny-goat. I gotta change my circle of acquaintances!

[JimO]

I also know a guy who did jail time for porking a nanny-goat. I gotta change my circle of acquaintances!

at least he wasnt gay

[dangerous]

shit guys... ya scearing me, lets get back to bloody earthquakes aye...

[FJRider]

at least he wasnt gay

No ... that was the guy "acting" the goat ... ;)

[Subike]

9500 quakes in 500 days
that is 19 a day
And I thought I had the onset of Parkinson s!! :sick:

[neels]

This shit is really starting to suck now.

So we've been red zoned, and have until April 2013 to get out. Have found a house we want to buy, and are now trying to sort the paperwork :brick:

Finally managed to get the claim on our house finalised and have a letter that seems to be mostly weasel words, so that's off to the lawyer to try and make some sense of what all of that means, to figure out what options we have for settlement.

So ring our insurance company and get told sorry, we're not taking on any new business in chch. Must be nice to be sitting in a comfy warm office somewhere making blanket decisions like that, knowing that it's not going to affect you personally.

Rang the existing insurer for the house and get told they won't transfer the existing insurance it will be a new policy, and if we pay for a builders report they'll have a look at it and *may* offer insurance on the house, but they can't give a definate yes or no. Without insurance obviously we can't get any money from the bank.

End result is we can't buy a house to move to without insurance, but we have to fuck off from where we are now, and at present we're stuck between the two in no mans land.

Fuck.

/rant

[shrub]

This shit is really starting to suck now....End result is we can't buy a house to move to without insurance, but we have to fuck off from where we are now, and at present we're stuck between the two in no mans land.

Fuck.

/rant

That is very, very fucked up.

[mashman]

That is very, very fucked up.

couldn't have put it any better. Bloody sorry to hear that neels.

[dangerous]

Neil... work on them, worked for us as you know one minute we had insurance next we didnt then we did who knows if we will at the end of the build, as we changed banks I dont know if we will still get the ins with the other bank, I give up its all to hard but alas ya have to battle on.
Ya got no idea how farking relieved Ill be when we get right out of this shit hole that chch has become. Every were ya seem to go theres attudes road rage and no one gives a shit any more, Ive said it to you before and Ill say it again... piss off 30mins out of it, you like me dont have to go into town to work, and schools aint that hard to sort.

[Oakie]

Don from Pit Lane now out at Darfield would agree. Seems very happy out there even though it's a bit quieter. Still seem to plenty of bikers making the trek out there though.

[dangerous]

Don from Pit Lane now out at Darfield would agree. Seems very happy out there even though it's a bit quieter. Still seem to plenty of bikers making the trek out there though.
Yip, they are at the end of the road we are on, he wont be back, awesom spot hes got altho our build is ahead of theres hehe.

[Brian d marge]

This shit is really starting to suck now.

So we've been red zoned, and have until April 2013 to get out. Have found a house we want to buy, and are now trying to sort the paperwork :brick:

Finally managed to get the claim on our house finalised and have a letter that seems to be mostly weasel words, so that's off to the lawyer to try and make some sense of what all of that means, to figure out what options we have for settlement.

So ring our insurance company and get told sorry, we're not taking on any new business in chch. Must be nice to be sitting in a comfy warm office somewhere making blanket decisions like that, knowing that it's not going to affect you personally.

Rang the existing insurer for the house and get told they won't transfer the existing insurance it will be a new policy, and if we pay for a builders report they'll have a look at it and *may* offer insurance on the house, but they can't give a definate yes or no. Without insurance obviously we can't get any money from the bank.

End result is we can't buy a house to move to without insurance, but we have to fuck off from where we are now, and at present we're stuck between the two in no mans land.

Fuck.

/rant

and there is no way you can tell that red sticker to go and f itself, this is my home and I ain't moving?
that would be my feeling ..... I'm thinking of that film the castle ....
good luck hope it pans out
stephen

[neels]

That is very, very fucked up.
Yes, yes it is.


I give up its all to hard but alas ya have to battle on.
Pretty much. Don't have a choice as we have to go somewhere, just sick of all the bullshit and want to move on, but solve one problem and another one turns up. Just as well work don't mind me spending half my day on the phone trying to sort shit out.

and there is no way you can tell that red sticker to go and f itself, this is my home and I ain't moving?
Um, nope. CERA legislation lets them compulsoraly acquire your land for it's current market value (which at the moment is 2/5 of fuck all), and tell you to piss off. So selling it to them is a better option than getting fuck all and being told to move anyway.

[oldrider]

From the outside looking in it appears that Christchurch society is finally imploding in on it's self!

That will be harder to put back together than the physical part of the city!

All the King's horses and all the kings men couldn't put Christchurch (Humpty Dumpty) together again! .... Sad thing to watch really! :facepalm:

[Brian d marge]

From the outside looking in it appears that Christchurch society is finally imploding in on it's self!

That will be harder to put back together than the physical part of the city!

All the King's horses and all the kings men couldn't put Christchurch (Humpty Dumpty) together again! .... Sad thing to watch really! :facepalm:

the question arises , why ... ?

is it? if it is , are the bonds that hold a community together broken if so why? economic? generational ?

and what lessons can we learn

it will be interesting as an outsider , being there in March , I will be paying attention and will report back first impressions

Stephen

after delivering donuts of course

[Kickaha]

From the outside looking in it appears that Christchurch society is finally imploding in on it's self!
What makes you think that?



it will be interesting as an outsider , being there in March , I will be paying attention and will report back first impressions

Stephen

after delivering donuts of course

I'll be interested in those impressions especially as you're coming from somewhere that suffered a natural disaster on a far larger scale and can you deliver me a coke as well?

[riffer]

What makes you think that?

I've been in Christchurch all week and I'm back there week after next. I wouldn't necessarily say that. Yes, it's true that Christchurch people have had to handle the jandal, because there really wasn't any choice, but, other than a quiet annoyance (and about 4000 who weren't quiet) with the bureaucracy, there's a quite resilience about the population that I really admire.

[oldrider]

What makes you think that?

News paper reports, TV news, radio, media reports in general, coupled with personal comments from relatives and friends!

There seems to be a deep rooted level of dissatisfaction building up and there is nowhere else to vent it but onto those controlling the rebuild.

Add to that the ambitions of the negative splinter groups stirring away and you have an explosive mix just waiting to be set alight.

This has been pretty tough for Christchurch society in general to endure and there seems to be very little light at the end of tunnel sometimes.

Like it says on the fireworks that you buy ... "light blue touch paper, do not hold in the hand"! :shit:

[dangerous]

From the outside looking in it appears that Christchurch society is finally imploding in on it's self!I tend to agree, people have changed, not all cos some are well wraped up in cotton wool and life hasnt changed (nice to have money) look at Neils posts how can he and his family ever be the same.


the question arises , why ... ? human nature knowen as GREED and survival.
As you all mostely know I was well involved with comercial and housing repairs over the last 2yrs, a major part of this means dealing with people, I have sen it go from hugs n kiss to every man for himself... lets use Neil as an example again.
He has a 5 person family to look after if it gets down to him or his nabour being sorted out 1st (paid, repaired relocated) I'd say he will think fuck the nabour.
As I posted a page back anger, road rage, general attudes are getting worse, I hate the fucking place now, never thought Id say that.

[Oakie]

Buggered if I know how real this anti-council thing is. I work with 80 other people and Mrs Oakie with 120 people and neither of us have heard any anti-council sentiment from them. I don't pretend to have explored the issues (if thats what they are) but it feels like the media have got hold of something that a few (3000?) people are up in arms enough about to protest about and made it look like the whole town is imploding. Reality is that 3000 is not even 1% of the population.

[Grumph]

More than ever ChCh is a city of two halves - those who are seriously affected and those who either have only minor damage or none at all.
It's reached the point where those who are seriously affected just stay quiet in a group now...no one wants to hear it all again.

The protests against the council are just an outward symptom of the underlying stress - and the council is the most accessible target.
Brownlie won't put himself in the firing line....and the council has fucked up big time.

I've quoted the Newcastle Aus quake as a well researched event - they found stress maxed out three years after the event.....
I'd say that timetable is about right.

[ellipsis]

....that;s brownlee with a little b....the obese, ignorant, pie eating cunt doesn't deserve a big one....

[oldrider]

....that;s brownlee with a little b....the obese, ignorant, pie eating cunt doesn't deserve a big one....

Really ... what's wrong with eating pie's? :confused:

[ellipsis]

Really ... what's wrong with eating pie's? :confused:

....nothing wrong with pies...more to do with whose pies, when the pies are getting eaten and how he came by those pies...

[shrub]

More than ever ChCh is a city of two halves - those who are seriously affected and those who either have only minor damage or none at all.
It's reached the point where those who are seriously affected just stay quiet in a group now...no one wants to hear it all again.

The protests against the council are just an outward symptom of the underlying stress - and the council is the most accessible target.
Brownlie won't put himself in the firing line....and the council has fucked up big time.

I've quoted the Newcastle Aus quake as a well researched event - they found stress maxed out three years after the event.....
I'd say that timetable is about right.

That's pretty well on the money. Tony Maryatt's salary wasn't that big a deal really, certainly not enough to warrant the uproar it's caused and the Councillors have always bickered and sniped at each other - they're politicians, it's what they do. Most of the people at that protest were really protesting against EQC, CERA, insurance companies etc.

And you're right, it's a city of 2 halves. We live in Burwood, and while our house is fine and our neighbourhood is as green as me, everything around us is fucked up and I am sick of living surrounded by broken shit. My supervisor at university lives in Avonhead and she really has no idea and seems to think that the only problem areas are Seabreeze Close and the CBD, so if you don't live in either area you should just harden the fuck up like she has.

[neels]

We're getting the fuck out of the red zone :woohoo:

Finally joined all of the dots, and got sorted for the next house, been bloody near a full time job for the last month.

We're trading down a bit, so with a correspondingly smaller mortgage and a separate 6x4 shed for the bikes, I'm thinking I might need an adventure bike to fill up some of the space....

[TrentNz]

Its quite funny, the Christchurch people want to move on, but when we are demolishing houses they complain about every fucking little thing.

The problem areas are the areas around the sea and rivers, and the fact that most of the houses in Christchurch are built on marshland and aren't sitting on piles driven down to hard rock.
then there's the houses built out of brick, and the houses built out of blocks with no steel or concrete in side them...
You dig down 3 meters and you hit the water table. go figure.

[dangerous]

what the hell is your point Trent?

[shrub]

Its quite funny, the Christchurch people want to move on, but when we are demolishing houses they complain about every fucking little thing.

The problem areas are the areas around the sea and rivers, and the fact that most of the houses in Christchurch are built on marshland and aren't sitting on piles driven down to hard rock.
then there's the houses built out of brick, and the houses built out of blocks with no steel or concrete in side them...
You dig down 3 meters and you hit the water table. go figure.

I think watching your house being demolished is not a "little thing", especially when you are forced to relocate to somewhere that you probably never wanted to live in the first place - that's if you can get insurance. Of course you can always rent - that's right, there's a massive shortage of rental properties.

And I don't think you can blame us for the state of the ground under our houses.

[TrentNz]

what the hell is your point Trent?

I'm saying the grounds shit and the houses are poorly built

[oneofsix]

I'm saying the grounds shit and the houses are poorly built

yep poorly build houses that have stood for longer than most others in NZ, I see your point. :brick:
Their modern housing was build to a standard that said Chch was relatively earthquake save. NZ is divided in to building zones and Chch wasn't seen as a high earthquake risk. Their houses were as well build as the rest of NZ for the zone they were in. In Wellington they would have been build to a higher earthquake standard because of it's recognised earthquake risk and funnily enough a high wind standard, wonder why that would be.

[shrub]

I'm curious what people are doing about the anniversary tomorrow. I was at the gym right beside the CTV building when it hit and I'm planning to ride down there. It's a place that will always have a lot of meaning to me.

[ellipsis]

I'm curious what people are doing about the anniversary tomorrow. I was at the gym right beside the CTV building when it hit and I'm planning to ride down there. It's a place that will always have a lot of meaning to me.

...i will be finally putting in the fire and chimney flue after a winter and a half of not having one...and leaving the TV off...

[jim.cox]

I'm curious what people are doing about the anniversary tomorrow.

Keeping calm, carrying on.

Dont feel the need for a memorial service for an ongoing nightmare

[shrub]

...i will be....leaving the TV off...

You got it mate, I am doing much the same. I have no wish to see John Campbell and the like standing in front of what was once my home. I will be avoiding the formal ceremonies, and while I only managed to spend about 10 minutes helping at the CTV building before I was sent on my way, I kind of feel a need to be there.

[dangerous]

I'm saying the grounds shit and the houses are poorly built
well we all know that...

[Maha]

I'm curious what people are doing about the anniversary tomorrow. I was at the gym right beside the CTV building when it hit and I'm planning to ride down there. It's a place that will always have a lot of meaning to me.

..and naturally you completed your set?

[shrub]

..and naturally you comlpeted your set?

Yeah, I was on my eighth repetition of a 2 kilogram benchpress. Ahh, that's quite a lot of weight.

[helenoftroy]

I'm curious what people are doing about the anniversary tomorrow. I was at the gym right beside the CTV building when it hit and I'm planning to ride down there. It's a place that will always have a lot of meaning to me.

Will reflect on that unforgettable day, will miss my my dear neighbor who died in the CTV building....but will be hugely thankful that I have moved on,it was the best thing I could have done - no regrets

and a year later I still have no idea of the fate of my once beautiful Christchurch house,if my land can be remediated or not,if the house is a fix or rebuild....so the uncertainty and waiting goes on

[Oakie]

Tomorrow I'll share a bit of quiet time with my workmates at 12.51. There will be a few hugs.

I'll spend a bit of quiet time by myself a little later reflecting on the circumstances that saw me leave the CTV building that day at 12.31 and not 20 minutes later. I'll also reflect upon the circumstances that let me to walk past the old Winnie Bagoes at 12.49 where a huge concrete beam crashed onto the footpath 2 minutes later. I shall reflect on how lucky I was that of the whole 4 hours I was in the CBD that morning, I was lucky enough to be walking across the wide open spaces of Latimer Square when it was unleashed.

I'll then give some thoughts to the people who weren't as lucky as me.

It won't be a happy day but it will be an important day and a big step along the way.

Did I mention how lucky I was?

[dangerous]

walking across the wide open spaces of Latimer Square when it was unleashed.interested to know what you thought when you looked around and saw the city crumbling around you... and what you then did?
other than that I dont give a shit about today life goes on, sorry but i have my own issues to deal with, like this wee shit sitting on my knee.

[shrub]

Did I mention how lucky I was?

My luck came through when I got a text from my daughter asking if I was OK - she was in the bus exchange when it hit and still has a piece of the chunk of roof that fell on her.

[shrub]

Will reflect on that unforgettable day, will miss my my dear neighbor who died in the CTV building....but will be hugely thankful that I have moved on,it was the best thing I could have done - no regrets

and a year later I still have no idea of the fate of my once beautiful Christchurch house,if my land can be remediated or not,if the house is a fix or rebuild....so the uncertainty and waiting goes on

I am considering leaving myself. My partner is utterly sick of everything, and I don't know I can be arsed myself when there are a lot of great opportunities all around NZ. We're off to Tauranga for a week and while I'm up there I'll suss things out.

[Oakie]

interested to know what you thought when you looked around and saw the city crumbling around you... and what you then did?
other than that I dont give a shit about today life goes on, sorry but i have my own issues to deal with, like this wee shit sitting on my knee.

Lying on the ground I heard a noise like a wave receding back down a stoney beach. That was the CTV building coming down.
I stood up and looking around Latimer Square immediately realised that was way worse than September. There was a big cloud of dust from up near the CTV building. I walked up towards it and as I got near to Hereford St the dust thinned enough for me to see the CTV building on the ground. I still cannot adequately describe the feeling that hit me. I knew then though that people had died ... including probably my doctor and his workmates on the fourth floor.
I saw a policeman start to climb the pile of rubble.

Debated going in to help but then thought of family in the north east of the city so went to my car behind the Latimer Hotel and made my way home.

[mashman]

All the best to you guys down there. My thoughts will be with you today. Kia Kaha.

[Oakie]

I went up to the 'Sign of the Kiwi' for the two minutes silence. There were a couple of others up there when I got there and we finished up with 12 to 15 people all just quietly in their own thoughts. It was quiet and peaceful. People arrived and left without saying anything but it was strangely comfortable.

[shrub]

I've just come back from a week in Tauranga staying with my sister, and my partner and we have decided that it's time to pack our bags and move. I have very mixed feelings about leaving Christchurch and there's a sense of abandoning ship, but I'm too old to spend the next 10 years waiting for things to come right, and it will be at least that long. I'm sick of driving on broken roads, I'm sick of seeing shattered houses and I'm sick of not having a city. Our house is fine, but at a subconscious level it wears you down seeing so much depressing stuff every day. We have a few loose ends to tidy up which will take us to the end of the year, then we're off.

We flew up and borrowed a car and did a lot of driving, damn there are some fine highways in that part of the country.

[FJRider]

We flew up and borrowed a car and did a lot of driving, damn there are some fine highways in that part of the country.

The East-coast, Gisborne, Opotiki loop, is a good equivalent of "the block" out of Christchurch.

[dangerous]

we have decided that it's time to pack our bags and move. I have very mixed feelings about leaving Christchurch and there's a sense of abandoning ship,abandonship my arse, shit man ya owe chch sfa... all the best from me with ya move get up there and enjoy

[neels]

Getting the fuck out of the red zone tomorrow.

Now that I've finished pushing shit uphill with a pointy stick to buy a house, and even though I haven't sorted selling the one in the red zone yet, I've got time to feel for the poor bastards in the green/blue zone who are still waiting for answers and can't do anything.

In some ways red zoning sucks, in other ways it makes life a shitload easier.

[helenoftroy]

Getting the fuck out of the red zone tomorrow.

Now that I've finished pushing shit uphill with a pointy stick to buy a house, and even though I haven't sorted selling the one in the red zone yet, I've got time to feel for the poor bastards in the green/blue zone who are still waiting for answers and can't do anything.

In some ways red zoning sucks, in other ways it makes life a shitload easier.

Tis been a rough road you guys:hug:
All the best for the move & the new abode....

& yeah blue (TC3) sucks.....big time,13mths on & I have no idea if can rebuild on my land or not....

[neels]

yeah blue (TC3) sucks.....big time,13mths on & I have no idea if can rebuild on my land or not....
Yep, have a flat that's on TC3 land, the guy from EQC that was around the other day was making not very encouraging noises about the subsidence and liquefaction. Thankfully it's still rentable, cos I can't see it getting fixed any time soon.

[helenoftroy]

Still waiting for EQC land assessment....yeah our category is the too hard basket.....might know sumthing in 5 years do you reckon?....

still got tenants in mine too-paying a pittance but hey!as you know its well f.....! & I am truly thankful I don't live in it anymore !!

[Oakie]

We are on Green/Blue but fortunately we have no fixing requiring doing anything in the ground (except the driveway but that's not going to be a problem).

[TrentNz]

Is it strange that i MOVED to christchurch?
for work obviously.
I feel sorry for those who don't have insurance, met one guy the other day, sad story :(


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l7XpxrFttc

[Brian d marge]

Its funny , we had a 6.8 the other night , epi centre not far from me , phones screaming their heads off
I was in a fairly modern building, and didnt fee a thing

Tell you one thing for sure though , they say we will have a big one , soon , I was chatting with a self defence ranking officer , the other day , he was telling me about the plans if the big one hits tokyo ,,,,

not buildings you need to worry about , fire is the thing they were training for ..... yuk I hate fire and as for my wee house , its light and modern and is surprisingly bendy ,,,

One thing for sure these after shocks are getting "old news " the gloss has definatly gone ,,,,,

I will be over in chch next week , be an experience thats for sure ,,,,,

stephen