Christchurch earthquakes

[ajturbo]

At least South Canterbury Finance will be OK....





Sorry, too soon?

NEVER too soon to make some laugh!!

[far queue]

My families in Geraldine St and Springfield Rd and I can't contact - are you around there at all as if so that's reassuring...

I was in that area a couple of hours ago when I went to check on my daughter and get some water - she has it and I don't. That area is relatively unscathed, there's no ground damage/movement, but the homes are generally older so there is some damage to brick work, chimney's down that sort of thing.

[Naki Rat]

NEVER too soon to make some laugh!!

Not to trivialise the situation in Chch but the bright side of this is......

Now we don't have news dominated by trivial twaddle on Auckland's hospital and motorway problems

[Oakie]

Wow! That was intense! I even got a cut on the head which bled out of all proportion to the actual injury. Most cool!
No real damage here although I haven't tried the TV that fell on me yet (wasn't that that caused the cut either ... I walked into the normally open bedroom door in the darkness. Shaking had half closed it..owee!

House good, our street shows no effects but Mairehau Road which we are off is a mess with cracks and holes. Photos later.

After I got inside stabilised I nervously went out to the garage to check the bike. Whew. Still upright.

Off to work as soon as power returns to check out the server and some physical damage that has been done.

[Dutchee]

Not to trivialise the situation in Chch but the bright side of this is......

Now we don't have news dominated by trivial twaddle on Auckland's hospital and motorway problems

What do you mean. I was looking forward to spending the day tomorrow just watching tv following the whole drama, but now am spending today watching tv on the minor problem down south somewhere (didn't realise Christchurch existed in New Zealand today, I guess the rumours are right that there is life beyond the bombays). They're obviously jealous that Auckland was about to have a major problem.

Seriously though, as soon as I heard, I was on the phone to a friend to make sure they were okay. Glad there have been no deaths (so far). Freaky seeing some of the damage to streets and buildings. The eyes on one of the reporters when an aftershock hit really made you realise that it will take some time for people to get over the shock (if that makes sense). Hope they get the power on soon as the weather forecast sounds damned cold.
Take care all down there/afffected.

[Okey Dokey]

I was woken by the "roar" of the quake, thought to myself hell there is a gale blowing...and then the house started rolling/shaking. I don't recall hearing a quake approaching before...very strange.

No damage here, and friends & family in Chch all safe, which is what really matters.

[FJRider]

What do you mean. I was looking forward to spending the day tomorrow just watching tv following the whole drama, but now am spending today watching tv on the minor problem down south somewhere (didn't realise Christchurch existed in New Zealand today, I guess the rumours are right that there is life beyond the bombays). They're obviously jealous that Auckland was about to have a major problem.

So ... one road closed is a "drama" ... and a widespread provincial areas of damage/power outage's ... is "minor problem" ... ????

[Dave Lobster]

...gonna be costing this little country a whole heap of money.

Worry not! Pretty soon the international community will have a whip round and fly some 'aid' in.

I'd be expecting cheques from the likes of Tonga, Fiji, Pakistan, etc. within the next few hours.

What goes around, comes around.

[Hopeful Bastard]

On the upside, If you were awake at that time of morning screwing the partner, You wouldnt have had to do much work eh??

[Dutchee]

I was definitely taking the piss. I live in Auckland and get totally fed up with hearing about our minor inconveniences when other parts of the country are having seriously major problems (half a day without power because of a $2 part whilst Canterbury - yet again - have lost power for a few weeks while having a serious white out).

I didn't think tongue in cheek would translate The media blow everything out of proportion, and I don't think a small part of a motorway closing is major news (hell, if you live in Auckland and haven't realised it's closed for a day by now, you're obviously blind/deaf and shouldn't even be out on the stinkin' road). And I don't even watch the news (except in these sorts of times when there is major problems happening).

[oldrider]

Got well and truly shaken up here and it went on for so long just changing in intensity rather than stopping!

No real damage done that we can see but I was starting to wonder about the Benmore dam there for a while!

Our Daughter and family got well shook up at Temuka too.

Apparently Christchurch area got a real good doing over, sympathies where applicable to you people up there!

[Hopeful Bastard]

And now there is a plane down on the glacier.. Very nice for the information for the South Islanders isnt it?? R.I.P guys.

[Maha]

I was definitely taking the piss. I live in Auckland and get totally fed up with hearing about our minor inconveniences when other parts of the country are having seriously major problems (half a day without power because of a $2 part whilst Canterbury - yet again - have lost power for a few weeks while having a serious white out).

I didn't think tongue in cheek would translate The media blow everything out of proportion, and I don't think a small part of a motorway closing is major news (hell, if you live in Auckland and haven't realised it's closed for a day by now, you're obviously blind/deaf and shouldn't even be out on the stinkin' road). And I don't even watch the news (except in these sorts of times when there is major problems happening).

Its really fucked up the Rugby also, BOP V Canterbury was ment to be played tonight, guessing thats a no go?
So whats going on in Akl tomorrow?

[FJRider]

On the upside, If you were awake at that time of morning screwing the partner, You wouldnt have had to do much work eh??

Those that were ... and on top ... I hope you didn't fall off and break "something" ...

[PrincessBandit]

It wasn't worth getting out of bed for

No damage that I can see here at home (Rangiora) couple of pictures fell over and that was about it, heaps of aftershocks though over the next few hours after the big one

edit 7.3 hmmmmmm, when I checked geonet it said 4.3 that must have been one of the aftershocks

Wow. We rang the outlaws this morning (also in Rangiora) and they said they'd been woken by it, few things falling off shelves and the dog's cage got rattled around quite a bit.
They seemed ok though, much to our relief.
Glad to hear that you're all good, and that (from what i've read so far) most people haven't come out too badly from it.
Still, sometimes methinks there are advantages to being up here in Dorkland. (Might change my mind if a big one hit us......)