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Ambassador -> RE: New Zealand friends??? (3/18/2021 11:21:12 AM)
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ORIGINAL: JeffroK
I thought it was a renewal of a thread, not the average input from the peanut gallery.
As mentioned in the original post I was in Christchurch 8 days after the big quake. I did a quick recce around town before heading south. In the areas you could access there was limited damage, brick walls and chimneys down, but the main intersections heading to the CBD were blocked by APC and dudes in khaki.
When I returned, after being in Methven during the Japanese tsunami I could get a bit closer and was at RNZAF Museum Wigram when a tremor hit, we were in a hangar and I thought someone slammed the door.
Since then I have been back through CChurch 5 or 6 times since, and have seen the City slowing rebuild, but plenty of vacant blocks in the CBD and a whole suburb where the houses have been removed. Streets are still there but the area not safe to rebuild.
On my last visit I drove to Kaikoura, which suffered a quake a few years ago. The inland route had areas where individual paddocks had 3-4 levels, all flat, where the earth went up or down. The drive back was along the area where the mountains, literally, fell into the sea. Major road and rail works to reopen it.
We were planning to be there around Christmas this year but I'll wait a bit for the cruise industry to prove itself, maybe I'll fly over.
You see, this is where the media could be a bit more useful. They’re all eager to announce the catastrophes, keeping the spotlight on the event for a couple of days, but they totally fail to do updates later.
I imagined the damage would have been undone, by now, as it’s been ten years.
Did they change the building techniques, to take future earthquakes in consideration ?
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