Christchurch earthquakes

**blackdog** · 25th February 2011, 17:02

Originally Posted by 98tls

Took a ute load of BBQs and full gas bottles up there today.

gee cee...

**laRIKin** · 25th February 2011, 18:50

Well we are all right, better off than the poor old bugger down the road from work.(RIP)

Managed to walk/run stumble get knocked to the ground crawl stumble to fall flat again, back on all fours crawl like a mad man to the work shop door with steel falling behind me to be knocked down flat again at the door way.

We have a 64 ton press that weighs about 6-9 tons moved 240mm.

All three of our bikes got knocked over.
Garage door and Dog run door got opened in the shake and the girl wolfy crashed through the glass back door, to her safe place, our bed. (she is ok only got a small cut) and the boy stayed in the back yard. (lucky us)

A lot of roof tiles got shaken out of place so great big holes in the roof.
Had to get up there and do a quick fix as it was going to rain. YES I know it was not the safes thing to do.
Missed one batch of loose tiles so still had a leak.

Like everyone else any thing that could get knocked over or fall over did.
Cracks every where as larth and plaster does not like EQ's.

Went to Westport yesterday to do some shopping and drop off the mother in law.
As she as had enough and can not take it any more.
Food like bread is hard to get over there as it comes from here.
And on the lighter side, their pays have not come though as it gets processed in CHCH.

Anyway after a few of the shakes while typing this.
And now lost water supply again, but still have power.
Maybe a Crowded House in Westport would have been a better idea.

Anyway chin up we are OK and like all of us, WE WILL get though this again.
So stay safe and look after each other.

**onearmedbandit** · 26th February 2011, 23:10

Got home tonight after a feed and shower at my sisters place to find the power, phone and water back on. Fucking fantastic, thank you to all the hard working people at Telecom, Orion and the CCC.

**SMOKEU** · 26th February 2011, 23:26

I was surprised that my bike didn't fall over!

**neels** · 27th February 2011, 00:44

Originally Posted by onearmedbandit

thank you to all the hard working people at Telecom, Orion and the CCC.

Just talking to a guy from orion, he's been working stupid hours this week and back to work at 7.30 tomorrow morning, they are awesome guys doing an awesome job. He said they had to slow down installing the 66kv overhead line so the press could do their thing, they're aiming to get a job that would normally take a month done in less than a week.

**shrub** · 27th February 2011, 06:08

Originally Posted by laRIKin

All three of our bikes got knocked over.

That's the best view I've ever seen of your Suzuki - you should park it like that all the time.

**laRIKin** · 27th February 2011, 07:41

Originally Posted by shrub

That's the best view I've ever seen of your Suzuki - you should park it like that all the time.

Well I have gone off you now

and for that this pic to make you cry.
It did for me.

**shrub** · 27th February 2011, 07:54

Originally Posted by laRIKin

Well I have gone off you now

and for that this pic to make you cry.
It did for me.

Don't worry, I went off me years ago. At least your bikes were at home - mine is still in town and real close to the Grand Chancellor.

**Maha** · 27th February 2011, 08:24

Originally Posted by 98tls

Took a ute load of BBQs and full gas bottles up there today.Been up there so many times in the last few days the ute almost knows its own way up there.Mums had some positive news in that they are setting up a 111 center in Rangiora so she will soon be back to work,she so wants to help people but at her age theres not much she can do and sees going back to work as a way of doing so.Edit,forgot to mention i stopped for petrol and whilst doing so a bloke approached me and asked about all the barbies,i told him that they had come from myself and a few mates etc and he gave me $50 for gas,tried to refuse it but he simply threw it in the ute window and walked away so i left it at that.Good on him whoever he was.

Challenge in Halswell ...fill 9KG bottles for FREE.

**cynna** · 27th February 2011, 12:54

alive and well - bikes fell over but no damage. lot of mess but cleaned most of it up. cant belive how much damage was done. all replacable tho

**fuknKIWI** · 27th February 2011, 17:22

Originally Posted by Hinny

Who would like to be in Christchurch? Not me.

Not so much a case of "liking" to be in CHCH but I do feel the need to be there to help out my UNINJURED 88y/o Mum is now a 'quake refugee in Timaru.
I guess when the time is right I'll make the trip.

Cut'n'paste from another forum...

My Mum was very lucky, she'd been outside with the bloke who comes to help her in the garden & decided it was time to take a break so she went inside to sit down in her comfortable chair. Being seated at the time almost certainly saved her from what could've been serious injury I've heard of many oldies who were felled by the 'quake & suffered broken pelvis & similar injuries. She's been evacuated to Timaru & is at a nephews place I'm in regular contact with people back home but as phone power and much of the infrastructure being out it's a slow process. Obviously the rescue/recovery operation is the most pressing issue, it's still a rescue operation but hopes are fading each day. Regarding Mum's house it's too early to tell what will become of it the next door neighbour is an engineer who's had a look at it & thinks it may be repairable, it's still a guess. We really won't know until it has been properly asessed there could well be hidden damage, if it's repairable it will being "months & months" before she can return. For many it's a waiting game to see what happens resouces over there are stretched to the limit (& beyond). I still don't know about the casualty list & I'm dreading that one. I know a friend of a friend's brother is amongst the missing so the motorcycling community is affected. This friends son is an apprentice mechanic at the local H-D dealership & was test riding a Buell at the time it happened, his first thought was that the the back axle had broken...I'm not much of atypist so I'm about plunked out...if a picture is worth 1,000 words here's another 50,000...some very touching & poignant images here. The photo of the abandoned fuel tanker is on a road that is part of our motorcycle heaven, it sure is GREAT riding country there, or was until this recent installation of speed bumps.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41746380/

This link is the quake map;

http://www.christchurchquakemap.co.nz/today

This is the register of the latest, often over apage per day...

http://www.geonet.org.nz/...uakes/recent_quakes.html

The list of those missing

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/chri...ctims/profiles

**laRIKin** · 27th February 2011, 19:19

Originally Posted by shrub

Don't worry, I went off me years ago. At least your bikes were at home - mine is still in town and real close to the Grand Chancellor.

Bugger at least your bikes are home.
If you need a hand to pick it up I have a works truck and trailer I can use.

**shrub** · 27th February 2011, 19:21

Originally Posted by laRIKin

Bugger at least your bikes are home.
If you need a hand to pick it up I have a works truck and trailer I can use.

Thanks mate. Do you know anyone who can get into the cordon?

**Oakie** · 27th February 2011, 19:52

Well as I reported in the 'Roll Call' thread, I was lucky. I left the CTV building at 12.31 having seen my doctor. Down to 'The Pharmacy' to fill the prescription and then was on the footpath outside Latimer Lodge when it hit. After it was over I walked toward the dust cloud at the top of Latimer Square and saw the CTV building down. I still can't describe my feelings over seeing that. Been wondering if my doctor got out but found out today he didn't. Bugger. I really wanted him to survive because his face keeps coming to me when I think about the victims.

We and our three guests (displaced family members) had a pretty rough few days at home but got water back on on Friday and power yesterday and the house is fairly straight so we are a whole lot better off than many. Sewage is a bit suspect but seems to be working and is preferable to the dunnys I dug behind the garage.

My bike, which I unusually did not take that day as I had a training to attend in town, had a wee lie down in the garage but was saved by a small decorative table my daughter had made in woodwork 10 or so years ago. The table was upside down on a carton beside the bike and the legs made a perfect cradle for the bike as it lay down. Suffered just a few scuffs and a wee scrape on the fairing. Apart from that ... nil damage. With my own escape, my bike's escape and with all of my family and workmates being uninjured I was just a lucky lucky boy. I'm sure I've now used all my luck so I hope there isn't another big event.