Christchurch residents - what will you do?

[The Lone Rider]

I'll be remaining, and continue to eat my wheetbix, watch movies, and ride my bikes

[fuknKIWI]

...and its where Lancaster Park sits...

Well to appease the Gods we must rename it as Lancaster Park then everything will OK...

[dangerous]

I went for a ride to Akaroa this morning.
Life is good again.

ummmm... were was mine and thunders invite?

+1 to that....London is built on hollow ground and at risk from the North Sea at all times, been flattened by man and is still one of the greatest cities on the planet...they dont seem to want to ditch the place...the Low Countries of Europe which have been at risk of terrible flooding and are the locations of a lot more great cities dont seem to have left for higher ground over the centuries...the allies fucked Bremen with bombs and fire...they lost the lot...great city there now....Tokyo, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, San Francisco, Manilla.... seem to all have kept their inhabitants...were they silly...had nowhere to go or was it just HOME...yip, there will be bigger changes than we can yet imagine...........and its where Lancaster Park sits...

hell yes like Berlin, Hamgerg etc once leveled now and for as long as the most of us remember, a modern city that bounced back... Chch will do the same.

I don't believe you understand just how strong the Feb earthquake was. The city was subjected to an acceleration of 1.8g,

the transformer in Bromerly that was tipped over recorderd 2g, and yes true reading 9.1 aparently the maths is being done and we could well have the strongest quake ever recorded.

This city will rebuild, it will rebuild where it is. It will take years to return Christchurch to what is was before, maybe up to 15yrs. But in the lifespan of a city, that is but a blip in time..

farking oath, yeah it will be a ghost town for a while and having seen the mess there will be sfa left that we will reconise.

[far queue]

Well to appease the Gods we must rename it as Lancaster Park then everything will OK...

No renaming needed, it always has been Lancaster Park! Jade Stadium at Lancaster Park, then AMI Stadium at Lancaster Park. It's only been the stadium name that's been changing.

And yes, I'll be staying too, I'm too bloody stubborn to do anything else! Plus my ancestors also came out on the 1st four ships.

[Winston001]

Plus my descendants also came out on the 1st four ships.

Faarrg. Owen the time traveller... Whoda thought...

[far queue]

Faarrg. Owen the time traveller... Whoda thought...

Oops fixed

[jim.cox]

Well, if it were up to me I'd run away and set-up camp somewhere on the banks of the Manuherikea. But the Mrs says "No, too dry there"

Then I suggested moving back to Dunedin
But that got vetoed too

Apparently we need to stay here, look after her Mum and Dad and contribute to the rebuilding...

[neels]

Interesting question.

I could have a possible option to up and sod off, but I suspect having a rooted house on probably unsellable zone C land that work hasn't even started on yet means I'm stuck here, with the kids doing shift work at different schools for the forseeable future.

Fucking yay.

[helenoftroy]

Dont want to be here anymore

I have totally had it and as soon as I possibly can I will leave

[gammaguy]

im overseas setting up a business,I left the area two weeks after the september quake.

I have property in Banks Peninsula which has survived both quakes without a scratch,and my tenants love me to bits and want to stay there.

So even if i wanted to i cant come home....

Truth is,I dont really want to right now,so im happy to stay in the tropics for a few more years at least.

Time will tell.......

[ellipsis]

...yeah..BP is looking good gammaguy...fuck all infrastructure to break...a lot of the peninsular moved tho...lot of shattered rock up high...be exciting for a while...if the cracks all join up, we'll be Banks Island soon...

[gammaguy]

...yeah..BP is looking good gammaguy...fuck all infrastructure to break...a lot of the peninsular moved tho...lot of shattered rock up high...be exciting for a while...if the cracks all join up, we'll be Banks Island soon...

well then,when I get back the first ride on the TDR will be even more fun than usual

[dangerous]

Dont want to be here anymore

I have totally had it and as soon as I possibly can I will leave

OHHH that will be sad... but I dont get it. you lot that are sceard to stay, the faults have relesed their tension, the next quake will be somewere else... perhaps were ya move to?
you have far more chance of diying driving to were ever ya going to move to!

HOT in your case get a newer house, away from a water way, not in a low part of town... ok its easy for me to say cos Ive been farking lucky due to being on dry river bed in a beter built house, but come on running away aint the answer pertictly if ya jobs safe and house livable.

Hysterier... a natural thing with us mear humans, briford trailers have lost all there welders, my solid plaster has lost all his men... all taken of for the hills, IMHO it aint the answer.

[Grumph]

Well the old saw about time healing is still true...After the first quake which was real bad in some areas out here we heard a lot of "we'd go but there's animals to look after". By the time of the 2nd quake people had settled back into their routines and were starting to recover stability.
Now ChCh suburbs have been hit it's just the same natural flight reflex taking over again. If the day to day needs of the residents can be met reasonably quickly and some form of normality comes back to the daily routine, panic levels will drop.
HOT and Neels - it's looking more likely of course that you may be offered the "get out of the shit" option of moving to better ground. I've got friends in Bexley who are begging for that option to be offered to them as they badly want to stay in ChCh - just not that part of it....
As a personal bonus - if there's more development of ChCh to the West, we'll not have to travel as far to town....

[CookMySock]

I reckon they should all panic and move to another town and sell their realestate for jack-all to people like me. In five years it will all be forgotten and I'll be a multi-millionaire.