Bastard earthquake!

[98tls]

Couple of minutes in the microwave it'd be sweet

Was up your way on Friday and meant to call in but Vicky ended up getting lost in a mall somewhere,no doubt the cc statement will reveal just how lostWas going to get a price for some new rubber on the ute as was told they wont pass next time.

[Kickaha]

Was up your way on Friday and meant to call in but Vicky ended up getting lost in a mall somewhere,no doubt the cc statement will reveal just how lostWas going to get a price for some new rubber on the ute as was told they wont pass next time.

I was on holiday anyway

[mashman]

Fortunately I was having a lovely evenink in the country ... kudos to those who gave the lifts, my wife, from Welly to where they needed to go... well, those who didn't have nice cars that they didn't want to sullied by picking up just anyone.

[Maha]

I like the way the media reports the goings on after an earth moving event ''Hundreds of cars trying to leave the city'' that happens everyday around the 5pm in Wellington.
''Crowds of people spilling out in front of the train station'' that's because the trains were not working.
Wait until you get a 7.9 or bigger quake, then there'll be something to report about...people sitting in bars drinking and laughing because there train is not working and clogging up the cell phone network, is not news.

The folk of Seddon however, they are the ones who are being most effect by the recent shakes, there is real damage in that small town. Same as Darfield in the September earthquake, where as Christchurch got 90% of coverage mostly about nothing.
Most house in Seddon are damaged while a few building in Wellington have 'superficial' damage.

[AllanB]

Darfield got off surprisingly lightly in Sept 4th - sure there was some major land movement but that was on rural land. There was good media coverage of a few old historic homes that got seriously fucked but the general township survived well and if you go out there you would never know it had happened. Christchurch on the other hand ........ Darfields events energy travelled that way. Same a the Feb Lyttelton shake the energy of the event was directed straight into the CBD - bloody felt like it too!

I is quite impressive to think that I felt last weeks Seddon wobble in CHCH half way down the Island. Just imagine when the Southern Alps goes again....

[T.W.R]

Darfield got off surprisingly lightly in Sept 4th - sure there was some major land movement but that was on rural land. There was good media coverage of a few old historic homes that got seriously fucked but the general township survived well and if you go out there you would never know it had happened. Christchurch on the other hand ........ Darfields events energy travelled that way. Same a the Feb Lyttelton shake the energy of the event was directed straight into the CBD - bloody felt like it too!

easy to say that now especially when you'd have no idea where to look ChCh is on a jelly pack so it's going to shake like buggery, bloody swampy hole

[Grumph]

Darfield got off surprisingly lightly in Sept 4th - sure there was some major land movement but that was on rural land. There was good media coverage of a few old historic homes that got seriously fucked but the general township survived well and if you go out there you would never know it had happened. Christchurch on the other hand ........ Darfields events energy travelled that way. Same a the Feb Lyttelton shake the energy of the event was directed straight into the CBD - bloody felt like it too!

I is quite impressive to think that I felt last weeks Seddon wobble in CHCH half way down the Island. Just imagine when the Southern Alps goes again....

Not entirely true - as TWR says you have to know where to look. figures i've been told reveal more rebuilds per number of damaged houses out here than ChCh. they're slowly being done. The appearance of normality is simply because people have nowhere else to go so stay on in damaged houses.
What is staggering watching Seddon is the council's response....we didn't see a council representative for two and a half weeks....and then it was a local sub committee member. Who was it visited you TWR ? a member of the Charing Cross sewing circle or something similar...selwyn was and remains totally useless.
A councillor claimed in my hearing everyone in the district had been contacted within 3 days....turned out that fed farmers had contacted the cockies....no one gave a toss for the villages. He got a quick wakeup.....

[T.W.R]

Not entirely true - as TWR says you have to know where to look. figures i've been told reveal more rebuilds per number of damaged houses out here than ChCh. they're slowly being done. The appearance of normality is simply because people have nowhere else to go so stay on in damaged houses.
What is staggering watching Seddon is the council's response....we didn't see a council representative for two and a half weeks....and then it was a local sub committee member. Who was it visited you TWR ? a member of the Charing Cross sewing circle or something similar...selwyn was and remains totally useless.
A councillor claimed in my hearing everyone in the district had been contacted within 3 days....turned out that fed farmers had contacted the cockies....no one gave a toss for the villages. He got a quick wakeup.....

I think if my memory serves me right we actually got a letter from the council before we actually saw one knock at the door . 1st actual contact was from CWI members & Fed farmers followed a day or 2 later by GSR people mainly because they were up & down the road all the time setting up their monitoring system at the end of Ridgens Rd where the fault line was visible The days following the quake we were literally alone apart from neighbours & family...not bad considering we were only a couple kms from the epicentre .
There'd been more tourists to be seen including sight seeing flights than any of the authorities in the 1st 2 weeks

[mossy1200]

Tied mine up today. I guess it would take a big one to drop a 250kg bike but im not going to risk it.

[Kickaha]

[bogan]

Tied mine up today. I guess it would take a big one to drop a 250kg bike but im not going to risk it.

Did same to mine, though it was for other reasons (leaky bead) I might leave it like this for while.

[AllanB]

Seddon is looking pretty sad on the news. I went into 'town' to buy some paper from the art shop today. I spent my entire working life in there up until 2 years ago - little interest in going back and still full of broken buildings. I do wonder what is happening to some of them - maybe no insurance or some tree-hugger is trying to save some old building.

I wonder if EQC will offer them a better service given it is a small township and in theory they 'should' know what they are doing by now!!! Bound to be some policemen being flown over from Aussie already ...........

I know someone who went up to Welly a few months back to worth at EQC setting up systems for the next 'big' one. Happened a bit early!

Wellington should be on alert - good to see some bikes getting strapped - they can easily get thrown over or move forward and flip up the side-stand. Chock the rear wheel too.

I see the same tripe being dished out by the geo experts - face it, it is really a retrospective science and I remember getting rightly pissed off in CHCH with percentages predicting another 'big' one post September. Then they had the boxing day one and Feb's all on unknown fault lines...........

[pete376403]

Saw on the news that one in three people is leaving Seddon. No doubt they will be replaced short term by looters.

Need to get the army there with "shoot on sight" orders. Would only take a couple to get the message across.

[BMWST?]

Not entirely true - as TWR says you have to know where to look. figures i've been told reveal more rebuilds per number of damaged houses out here than ChCh. they're slowly being done. The appearance of normality is simply because people have nowhere else to go so stay on in damaged houses.
What is staggering watching Seddon is the council's response....we didn't see a council representative for two and a half weeks....and then it was a local sub committee member. Who was it visited you TWR ? a member of the Charing Cross sewing circle or something similar...selwyn was and remains totally useless.
A councillor claimed in my hearing everyone in the district had been contacted within 3 days....turned out that fed farmers had contacted the cockies....no one gave a toss for the villages. He got a quick wakeup.....

the scale of the thing was(and is) completely unheard of here,and there just arent the number of people with the required knowledge,and there still isnt.I am not trying to make excuses for anybody but that s how it is i guess.

[BMWST?]

Tied mine up today. I guess it would take a big one to drop a 250kg bike but im not going to risk it.

in a decent earthquake there will be a lateral and or vertical displacent of one or two meters with high g forces,not the tiddly shakes we have had.Older houses may leave their foundations behind(or is that the other way around) so you need some serious restraints!