Christchurch earthquakes

**neels** · 7th January 2012, 18:11

Originally Posted by Rashika

thats good news! Nice to have something better than just shakes to look forward to

It better happen, looking forward to a separate garage just for motorbikes & pushbikes, and a reasonable mancave sort of area....

**Kickaha** · 7th January 2012, 18:58

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

You sound like the sort of soft cock we'd be better off without anyway

Home is here, Job is here, neither of which have suffered any damage so I have no reason to move

**JimO** · 7th January 2012, 19:00

Originally Posted by Grumph

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.

wow..angry man.. yes i have donated money to ChCh and i also still feel sorry for people living there, i agree the same thing could have happened here and still could, im not intending to shift to Australia so tanks all the same

**JimO** · 7th January 2012, 19:04

Originally Posted by Kickaha

You sound like the sort of soft cock we'd be better off without anyway

Home is here, Job is here, neither of which have suffered any damage so I have no reason to move

another angry man, i could make a fortune working in ChCh when (if) the rebuild starts but there is more to life than money eh, seeing as how im a soft cock

**Oakie** · 7th January 2012, 19:12

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

Oh at least it'll give us something in common to talk about for a while.

Seriously, I was talking to my 81 year old mum today about earthquake effects including suicides which were picked by psych people to rise after Sept '10 and are actually at a lower than normal rate. Mum said that it's probably because everyone is prepared to share their earthquake stories so no one is bottling up this biggest stressor in most of our lives. The stress is released by talking about it on a daily basis with family, neighbours, workmates and complete strangers (who aren't really strangers because they've suffered in exactly the same way we all have). While the earthquakes have stuffed up the physical town, how we deal with it has increased the sense of community down here in a way that nothing else could have. That's why a lot of us won't leave. For better or worse, this is where we feel at home.

Oh, I have no disrespect for anyone who has left. We all had our own decisions to make and everyone's circumstances are different.

**Grumph** · 7th January 2012, 19:25

Originally Posted by JimO

another angry man, i could make a fortune working in ChCh when (if) the rebuild starts but there is more to life than money eh, seeing as how im a soft cock

That's another bullshit myth...the only outfit making any money from EQC work is Fletchers. If you're not registered with Fletchers you won't get any EQC work...period. And Fletchers are forcing the subbies to work at rates they approve....low !

Any insurance company work - and there's been very little approved so far - will go to the lowest tenderer in a competitive market.

Commercial work will be the same - lowest tenderer, and because of the size of the jobs it will always be the big players who get the contracts. They are the outfits who may well use imported labour too...

**Virago** · 7th January 2012, 19:35

Originally Posted by dangerous

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

Yup. Dunedin is frightening similar to Christchurch.

We have an off-shore fault-line which has given us a few little warnings over the years. When is the big one...?

Our seaward suburbs (and many industrial areas) are built on reclaimed land - some of it is marginally below sea-level. Being in South Dunedin during even a minor shake makes you feel seasick - it's like standing on jelly.

While our main CBD is mostly on solid land, we have a huge proportion of historic heritage buildings - many of which are only held together by gravity.

The misery in Christchurch should be a wake-up call for Dunedin residents.

**Kickaha** · 7th January 2012, 19:49

Originally Posted by Virago

Yup. Dunedin is frightening similar to Christchurch.

We have an off-shore fault-line which has given us a few little warnings over the years. When is the big one...?

Our seaward suburbs (and many industrial areas) are built on reclaimed land - some of it is marginally below sea-level. Being in South Dunedin during even a minor shake makes you feel seasick - it's like standing on jelly.

While our main CBD is mostly on solid land, we have a huge proportion of historic heritage buildings - many of which are only held together by gravity.

The misery in Christchurch should be a wake-up call for Dunedin residents.

Dunedin is considered one of the safer places, 1974 was the last decent sized one down there but that's not to say it couldn't happen tomorrow and you did have Abbottsford as well

They were looking at some Taieri faultlines as well
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/15...-be-complacent

**JMemonic** · 7th January 2012, 19:57

Originally Posted by Virago

Yup. Dunedin is frightening similar to Christchurch.

We have an off-shore fault-line which has given us a few little warnings over the years. When is the big one...?

Our seaward suburbs (and many industrial areas) are built on reclaimed land - some of it is marginally below sea-level. Being in South Dunedin during even a minor shake makes you feel seasick - it's like standing on jelly.

While our main CBD is mostly on solid land, we have a huge proportion of historic heritage buildings - many of which are only held together by gravity.

The misery in Christchurch should be a wake-up call for Dunedin residents.

It should be a wake up for all of NZ, we have had two previously unknown fault lines wreck the place, anyone who is of the opinion that their location has no known fault lines so they are ok needs a kick up the arse.

Sorry Virago not having a crack at you here just thought I would tack onto your comment.

**JimO** · 7th January 2012, 20:45

Originally Posted by Kickaha

you did have Abbottsford as well

They were looking at some Taieri faultlines as well
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/15...-be-complacent

Abbotsford was a different kettle of kippers

**dangerous** · 7th January 2012, 20:48

Originally Posted by Grumph

That's another bullshit myth...the only outfit making any money from EQC work is Fletchers....

and the fuckers that are ripping the system (country) OFF

Originally Posted by JimO

wow..angry man..

well mate, you will find a few of them up here... cant blame em unless ya been through it ya can never understand, its the hole atmosphere. The city will never be the same and neither will the people.
I've left chch but not for the reasons you may think, quakes dont bother me in the least, but the attude of the people do, having being involved with repair work, fletchers, EQR and the cunts of clients etc I now work and live out west.
Those that stay and battle on have my resepct, fuck man ya more likely to die on ya way to work on Monday.

Originally Posted by neels

Well some of us are making plans to stay

Offer accepted on the next house, now to sort the paperwork...

good shit guys, catch up soon yeah ohh and ya put an offer in on the paddock next to ours yet

**Kickaha** · 7th January 2012, 20:52

Originally Posted by JimO

Abbotsford was a different kettle of kippers

Still a disaster of sorts even if not earthquake related

**98tls** · 7th January 2012, 20:57

Jimmy your having a laugh surely,Tsunami survivers in Japan even said (excuse the translation) "things could be worse we could have to live in Dunedin" .