Christchurch earthquakes

[shrub]

mate... if you were parked across from the ctv then ya bike will have been dozed aside if not under a mass of soot, n dust, good luck.

That's not what I want to hear.

[AllanB]

In the bike park that 'was' right outside CTV? Opposite Blackwells?

Sorry mate but I think you know the answer.

I hope it was insured - let us know, if not we may need to pass the hat around for ya.


Fucking earthquakes. I'm over them.

[dangerous]

In the bike park that 'was' right outside CTV? Opposite Blackwells?

Sorry mate but I think you know the answer.

I hope it was insured - let us know, if not we may need to pass the hat around for ya.


Fucking earthquakes. I'm over them.

how did you go this time around? looked up ya drive as I returned from a quick spin for fresh air before... I expect no mor damage?

That's not what I want to hear.

I know that, mate it will be a claim of some sort aye... like I said before, nows ya chance for that Guzzi ya been pining LOL

[AllanB]

Cheers mate. Family all good, despite MrsB and myself working central.
More damage to the old home - greater separation inside and out, new suspect looking tears in walls and a lot more horizontal cracks through the block work. Section has moved more too. I wonder how much is left in the faithful old building - it was never designed to be constantly stressed like this.
The bike is OK this time - my ritual of placing a brick front & rear of the rear wheel, a bungie around the side stand and headers (to stop it flicking up if it rocks) and two straps on the bars to the rafters paid off! It still moved sideways and back about 250 mm

Ironically I had Arrow around last week doing a full report for AMI - the guy popped in on Wednesday to check on us!!!!!! Now that's service. He said he'll have to come back and redo it all as it is a lot worse. Somehow I think the decision has been made for them .....

[Subike]

Looks like we are the generation that will be building a new city.
Out for fathers came here when it was a swamp, no roads, no power, no shelter, they saw it as their future for their children, a better future full of promise.
They lives with out luxury for years to give us what we have today, lets not disrespect them by becoming a bunch of bleating whimps ,
I believe,that putting aside the sadness of the human loss, we are at the beginning of a new chapter for our city, one that we can all be a part of.
As a one eyed cantabrian there is only one choice, rebuild and go forward. We can do it.

[AllanB]

Yep - good point - 10 - 15 years I reckon in the CBD - bowl the lot and push over the old shitters. Bring it back as something really different and impressive.

Maybe encase the cathedral in resin as a tourist feature depicting the past and build a brand new sparkly one.


Maybe we'd better build it all on stilts - I think the city overall has slumped so much that this winter is going to be trouble - we'll be back in the swamps.

[Smifffy]

Yep - good point - 10 - 15 years I reckon in the CBD - bowl the lot and push over the old shitters. Bring it back as something really different and impressive.

Maybe encase the cathedral in resin as a tourist feature depicting the past and build a brand new sparkly one.


Maybe we'd better build it all on stilts - I think the city overall has slumped so much that this winter is going to be trouble - we'll be back in the swamps.

You'll be fine, just don't let the Auckland RWC architects near the place, and build what you need when you need it, rather than trying to make some "bold artistic statement that represents the spirit of canterbury for now and into the future"

Some walls and a roof that looks kinda cantab, does the biz and is resistant to falling down will all be good.

[imdying]

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

Yeah can do, but mate, it's gone.

There's like one road through (Montreal, and even that isn't a straight route), you are more than likely not seeing that bike again.

Access it patchy even for those with authority, I'm not going in unless it's an emergency.

[StoneY]

Geez Shrub, feeling your pain man but ultimately at least it was only the bike and not YOU mate.

[shrub]

Yeah can do, but mate, it's gone.

That's probably the best news I've heard all day - you're wrong most of the time, so your pessimism increases the odds of my bike being safe. And the cars parked around where I left it are fine, so it looks like all is good.

[SMOKEU]

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

I have a few contacts who can get me into the cordon zones if need be. You after your bike or something?

[shrub]

I have a few contacts who can get me into the cordon zones if need be. You after your bike or something?

If I could get it out that would be great, but I more want to know where it is and general condition.

[imdying]

That's probably the best news I've heard all day - you're wrong most of the time, so your pessimism increases the odds of my bike being safe. And the cars parked around where I left it are fine, so it looks like all is good.

Wanting to get your bike out of that particular location at the moment is beyond ignorant. Forget it for now, let the people who actually need to be in there do their job. They are still scraping people off the pavement in that zone, the last thing they want is people looking for their precious motorcycles.

[shrub]

Wanting to get your bike out of that particular location at the moment is beyond ignorant. Forget it for now, let the people who actually need to be in there do their job. They are still scraping people off the pavement in that zone, the last thing they want is people looking for their precious motorcycles.

Cheers for that.

[HenryDorsetCase]

I had to be out and about today: circumnavigated the Dead Center*: to get to cnr Bealey Avenue and Victoria Street from Somerfield I had to go through Richmond. You know how people say "its like a warzone"? Well, it is. There are Army guys on every corner, police from NZ, Australia, and on a fine day, that blowing silt is awful. There are broken water and sewers aplenty, and what I could see of the CBD is beyond fucked.

I was pleased to see the Railway Station tower (which someone had told me had "fallen down" was intact and looked straight. Saw a Japanese TV newscrew (with Sat phones and their own uplink (!) broadcasting from outside Knox church. That looks like its been hit with RPG rounds, seriously. And the buildings across from that (Saggio Di Vino and the wee hairdressers (which were being repaired) are what I would describe as completely fucked.

St Martins New World is closed and there is a broken sewer main at the corner of Wilsons and Gamblins Roads. Barrington New World is open. Countdown Church Corner is open.

The best way round for me has been the scooter. unbelievably mobile, and much easier to ride round town than the Scrambler: cheaper to run, too.

We're trying to help our clients, and we do have access to our email server (power is on to the building!) but at this point, our bank branch is closed and I am going to go try do a deal at another branch to do a transaction on our trust account. That will be fun.

how the hell we will pay the wages this week I have no idea. We have the money, but no access to it at this stage.




*the Dead Centers was th interior of the tower in KW Jeter's book "Farewell Horizontal" which I like a lot. And the description is apt on a few levels at present.