Christchurch earthquakes

**98tls** · 2nd January 2012, 19:18

Originally Posted by orangeback

call in to LeedingSign Design he often there

Bloody hell,showed the pic to the mrs which returned "ohhhhh hes gorgeous look at his beautiful eyes".

**whowhatwhere** · 7th January 2012, 01:30

Can't bloody get back to sleep after that one

**Rashika** · 7th January 2012, 05:04

I know I felt it but I just had farken annoying angry dreams after it instead of being awake half the night for a change... FARK OFFFFFFFFFF!

**cruza** · 7th January 2012, 09:26

Originally Posted by Rashika

I know I felt it but I just had farken annoying angry dreams after it instead of being awake half the night for a change... FARK OFFFFFFFFFF!

by annoying dreams ...you mean dangerous

**Kickaha** · 7th January 2012, 09:45

Originally Posted by cruza

by annoying dreams ...you mean dangerous

That would be more a nightmare than a dream

**Grumph** · 7th January 2012, 10:44

At the GP practise day Friday, I was talking to the MNZ stewards, in the event of a quake, they've appointed a safe assembly point outside the clubrooms....when this was mentioned the first question asked of course was "will the bar be opened ?"...
All the buildings will have to be cleared too which means red flagging any race on at the time as the tower will be cleared.

It gets complicated doesn't it.

I'll bet some of the out of towners are a bit bleary eyed this morning....

**JimO** · 7th January 2012, 15:14

i dont know about anybody else but if i lived in CHCH and wasnt stuck with a house i couldnt sell i would be out of there, fuck waiting up up 30 years for it to settle down

**Subike** · 7th January 2012, 15:22

Originally Posted by JimO

i dont know about anybody else but if i lived in CHCH and wasnt stuck with a house i couldnt sell i would be out of there, fuck waiting up up 30 years for it to settle down

well you dont live here, so you dont have a problem
just remember there are heaps of us who love this place, our history is here, our families are here
and some of us are direct decendants of those who dug it out of the mud.
my family has been here since 1847,
only rats leave a sinking ship

**onearmedbandit** · 7th January 2012, 15:28

Originally Posted by JimO

i dont know about anybody else but if i lived in CHCH and wasnt stuck with a house i couldnt sell i would be out of there, fuck waiting up up 30 years for it to settle down

Different horses for courses I suppose. Sure it can be trying at times, roads are in a state, no CBD to speak of, constant shakes. But this is my home.

**JimO** · 7th January 2012, 15:42

Originally Posted by Subike

well you dont live here, so you dont have a problem
just remember there are heaps of us who love this place, our history is here, our families are here
and some of us are direct decendants of those who dug it out of the mud.
my family has been here since 1847,
only rats leave a sinking ship

perhaps your descendants could have dug it out of the mud in a slightly better place, one thing for sure good luck building or rebuilding in the next few years if you need a mortgage and or insurance, its bad enough here with insurance companies running scared of earthquake cover, anyhoo i would rather be a rat living a comfortable life in another part of NZ than living in ChCh waiting for the next shake

**Subike** · 7th January 2012, 16:16

Originally Posted by JimO

perhaps your descendants could have dug it out of the mud in a slightly better place, one thing for sure good luck building or rebuilding in the next few years if you need a mortgage and or insurance, its bad enough here with insurance companies running scared of earthquake cover, anyhoo i would rather be a rat living a comfortable life in another part of NZ than living in ChCh waiting for the next shake

there have been shakes in Christchurch since before the city was built, all ways will be,
we have averaged 20 a week, but most are under 2.5, since recording began.
the amount of damaged houses would not have happened
if it was not for greedy property developers building where they were advised not to build,
and corrupt city councilors who only saw an increase in rates for their coffer
or that bottle of champers at the parties thrown for them.
The rest of New Zealand is just as prone to having shakes,
we just got it first,
As for insurance companies, well, IMO, just a bunch of greedy buggers started the business many years ago,
and we have all been sucked into being on their money grabbing fiasco world wide.

**Grumph** · 7th January 2012, 16:22

Originally Posted by JimO

perhaps your descendants could have dug it out of the mud in a slightly better place, one thing for sure good luck building or rebuilding in the next few years if you need a mortgage and or insurance, its bad enough here with insurance companies running scared of earthquake cover, anyhoo i would rather be a rat living a comfortable life in another part of NZ than living in ChCh waiting for the next shake

Thank you for any money you may have given to the ChCh appeal....and any fleeting sympathetic thought you may have had.

may i courteously point out that Dunedin is geologically very similar to ChCh and hence just as likely to have the same things happen.

After that and not so courteously, please fuck off to Australia - they deserve you.

**dangerous** · 7th January 2012, 17:14

Originally Posted by JimO

anyhoo i would rather be a rat living a comfortable life in another part of NZ than living in ChCh waiting for the next shake

Ohhhhh JimO... you do relise theres a much larger chance of a serious quake in your town or anywere else in NZ than ChCh... Id be worried if I was you