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Buck Beach -> RE: New Zealand friends??? (2/22/2011 9:05:32 PM)
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This is a post from another forum I read:
Yes I live up in Auckland quite some distance from the quake zone, but yeah this one is going to affect the whole country one way or another. New Zealand is only about the same size and Colorado and has a similar population of around 4 million. Most people in NZ would know someone or have family living in the area.
Around 360,000 people live in the quake zone. There are around 160,000 houses, and they estimate that around 100,000 of them have been damaged in some way.
The aftershocks have been rather ongoing, and the folks down south have had a number of sleepless nights. Now that the initial shock of the quake has worn off, people are now facing the reality of the long term ongoing disruption, from those who have damaged houses, to those whose places of work... especially the older pre-WW2 concrete buildings in the downtown area which collapsed, or need to be demolished because they are beyond repair. For some people their workplace or office building simply no longer exists.
Today they announced that one of the supermarkets, in one of the badly hit areas will need to close for a year so that it can be re-built. That supermarket employs over 80 people. This will only be the beginning as other business are forced to close because of the quake.
Buck
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