Christchurch earthquakes

[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?

[ellipsis]

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

....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

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.
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...