Christchurch earthquakes

[imdying]

That pretty much sums it up for a lot of people

When you have a broken and therefore unsellable house and a mortgage to go with it, not a lot of options other than hurry up and wait for Gerry and his fellow pigs to get their snouts out of the trough and actually do something.

Lovely place to be waiting though

[neels]

Lovely place to be waiting though

True, and better than the people round the corner who's houses are less damaged than ours and have been red zoned.

[Grumph]

I've got a mate with an undamaged house right in the middle of the worst bit of Bexley - it's red zone of course. we've been talking about the possibility of tendering for it and moving it to better land but section prices are going unreal....
He's going to have to get a bloody big payout to make moving it viable.

[Oakie]

He gets all the action that he requires in his Pink Panther suit.....

Oh yes, I'm a real chick magnet in that...

[Oakie]

...i just see a shortage of balls, common decency and pies when it comes to that piece of shit, brownlee...

Let's just remember he's in the same boat as us with his house down here. At least we have someone with a vested interest representing the city at government level.

[Grumph]

Let's just remember he's in the same boat as us with his house down here. At least we have someone with a vested interest representing the city at government level.

Get real...Merivale where his house is had squads of builders on site within a week or so of the Sept quake...you don't get service like that without $$$$.
He's not in the same boat...not even the same sea...he's a wellington dweller who's trying to look like he's suffering too. Only comes down here now for the photo ops..

[jim.cox]

He's not in the same boat...not even the same sea...he's a wellington dweller who's trying to look like he's suffering too. Only comes down here now for the photo ops..

Of all the trough wallowers, only that Dalzeill woman seems to have her constituents interests at heart and to be trying to help them out....

[Oakie]

Of all the trough wallowers, only that Dalzeill woman seems to have her constituents interests at heart and to be trying to help them out....

Yeah, she's not from the party that I support but she does seem to be pretty genuine.

[fuknKIWI]

Spoke to Mum this morning,hope you she had a happy 89th, despite the insulting head fucking offer from the insurance co.
Tell me please people what worse white zone or orange zone?
I already hate Oz insurance co's from personal experience now I'm getting vicariously fucked over by the Kiwi insurance maggots

[ellipsis]

....for all their initial, 'we will be there for you', flannel, in the first incident , in sept, and the fat fuck, a failed woodwork teacher, pielee, sorry brownlee jumped up and become an 'important figure', we have had it go from bad to worse, natural disaster shit and associated grief etc, and the biggest city in the south island has fucked off into history, the people in the east of the city have been left in the shit, literally, some of it is irretrievable...thousands of lives fucked...many older people who have only ever workled their arses off and contributed , big time , to what lifestyle we have been afforded are now out in the cold..and nobody in the places that they were voted into, has the balls/grit, to stand up and own their resposibilities...they would rather hold hands as one failed entity and hope like fuck that the voter will be cajoled into their hopelessness...NOV 26...

[Grumph]

Don't hold back Neil....yep, if only we in Canty could get the sense of frustration and general sense of fucked off with this lot of pricks in govt across to the rest of the country something might change.
However...it's being filtered through the media, who see providing accurate coverage of ChCh as unneccessary repetition of bad news. Like him or not Campbell has been the only TV guy to try and show it like it is.
Leanne Dalziel has come out of this so far really well. I understand she's still living in her munted house in Bexley and is actually engaging with the residents in her electorate - her gumboots are actually being used, Brownlee's are only for posing.
Pity that after things shake down the electorate boundaries will inevitably change to reflect the moved population...hope she still has an electorate.

Oh. and in a lot of ways being in the white zone is worse, particularly if there's visible land damage as you will still be waiting for that to be assessed. IMO quite a bit of what's white now will become red eventually - but the uncertainty is the standard default condition now....

[dangerous]

lol... gezz you old chaps crank up well aye, awesome...
While the main atension allways lands on the east I have to say Im still being amazed by damage elswere as I proceed to new streets/areas (all south west) Was up Bowenvale yesterday, bearly a house left intact not heard any comlaints from them. As they live on rock the quake simply shock their houses to pieces, still many with no water no sewage.
I tell ya I dont think anyone has an idea of how large a scale this is.

[Oakie]

....for all their initial, 'we will be there for you', flannel, in the first incident , in sept, and the fat fuck, a failed woodwork teacher, pielee, sorry brownlee jumped up and become an 'important figure', we have had it go from bad to worse, natural disaster shit and associated grief etc, and the biggest city in the south island has fucked off into history, the people in the east of the city have been left in the shit, literally, some of it is irretrievable...thousands of lives fucked...many older people who have only ever workled their arses off and contributed , big time , to what lifestyle we have been afforded are now out in the cold..and nobody in the places that they were voted into, has the balls/grit, to stand up and own their resposibilities...they would rather hold hands as one failed entity and hope like fuck that the voter will be cajoled into their hopelessness...NOV 26...

They are politicians, not miracle workers. This is way more than a snap the fingers or pass some legislation fix. I know ... easy for me to say that in my un-munted (although damaged) house with all utilities working. Infact just got a note in the mail yesterday to say that we can now start using our flush toilet again. Yipee!

[Grumph]

As politicians then, some very bad decisions were made looking back now.
It's pretty obviously too big for one company to be the nominated repair manager for a start...but given the behind the scenes activity of the Nats it was inevitable that any competition or choice would be stamped out.
The initial concentration on the CBD was IMO a mistake too - there's too many people suffering in their homes right now which should have been attended to as a priority...fence off the CBD and leave it till homes are weathertight.
There's actually been stress induced loss of life as a result of concentrating on the CBD instead of homes....

talking to another older friend today his comment was that he just can't see how this government can have sucked so many people in...promise us everything, deliver very little...we'll be there for the Pike River families....we'll be there for ChCh...
Yeah, right...the whole country is like a bloody big Tui ad...

[Winston001]

So a couple of weeks ago I went and had a look at the reality of Christchurch. Shrub kindly showed me around the eastern red zone and I walked the perimeter of the central city.

It was eerie. In the suburbs the streets were dusty and lumpy with a rundown look and small heaps of liquifaction soil here and there. Many houses appeared fine at first glance until Shrub pointed out the holes in roofs, broken windows, and gentle leans. Some houses had split between front and back.

It was sad.

The inner city is a mess being whole blocks of older buildings with collapsed frontages. The Catholic Cathedral left me silent because its huge and looms like something out of the London Blitz. Such a shame.

As for the Grand Chancellor - struth, what a sight. That building has always looked like the largest in Christchurch and can be seen from anywhere. Its just too big to do anything but stand solidly in the centre. And yet...it leans.

My thanks to Shrub, it really helped to have a local on the spot. I came away understanding far better what you have to cope with and why people feel so disorientated. There simply is no fast way to put this right.