Wed 15 September 2010. Darfield Quake. Day 12. Last day of Christchurch State-of-Emergency. Dallington focus. I drove Luke to his tech lectures at
Sullivan Ave, first lectures since the quake, as tech was closed for a week post-quake. I drove to St Paul's School,
Gayhurst Rd, damaged by liquefaction, then continued to
Locklsey Ave, Kerrs Reach, to snap quake-damage by Avon River, Dallington.
Richardson Tce: WARNING CONTAMINATED WATER sign on wooden pole, Heathcote River bank.
15.09.10. WARNING CONTAMINATED WATER sign, Richardson Tce, Heathcote River quake state of emergency
Ferry Rd: Two-storey building, brick-parapet, top of brick-wall collapsed, hot-water-cylinder exposed. Orange-plastic-road-cones, yellow crane-truck, white dump-truck inside steel-mesh-fence-cordon.
15.09.10. Yellow crane truck, quake damaged bldg (soon demolished) Ferry Rd, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake damaged bldg (soon demolished) Ferry Rd, state of emergency
I drove to lower Gayhurst Rd, close to Avon River. Lower Gayhurst Rd & St Pauls School were quakemired, due to closeness to Avon River & underground-water.
15.09.10. Grey liquefaction silt near St Pauls School, Gayhurst Rd, state of emergency
15.09.10. Grey liquefaction silt on pavement, St Pauls School, Gayhurst Rd, state of emergency
15.09.10. Grey liquefaction silt by a Gayhurst Rd drain, St Pauls School, state of emergency
15.09.10. Grey liquefaction cracked St Pauls School playground, Gayhurst Rd, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake crack, St Pauls School playground, Gayhurst Rd, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake sinkhole, St Pauls School playground, Gayhurst Rd, state of emergency
15.09.10. Grey liquefaction silt & quake cracks, St Pauls School playground, Gayhurst Rd, state of emergency
15.09.10. USAR / TF sign: NO GO St Pauls School playground, Gayhurst Rd, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake damaged pavement, St Pauls School, Gayhurst Rd, state of emergency
15.09.10. DANGER KEEP OUT, white, plastic tape & wire mesh fence cordon, St Pauls School playground, Gayhurst Rd, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake damaged, brick gate post & liquefaction damage to St Pauls School playground, Gayhurst Rd, state of emergency
15.09.10. Liquefaction cracked pavement, St Pauls School, Gayhurst Rd, state of emergency
15.09.10. Tilted power pole. Quake damaged, white, plastic, tape cordoned, St Pauls School, Gayhurst Rd, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake sinkhole. Yellow, Hi-Vis jacketed cop & NZDF soldiers rubbernecking St Pauls School quake damaged playground, Gayhurst Rd, state of emergency
15.09.10. USAR / TF sign: NO GO DANGER, St Pauls School, Gayhurst Rd, state of emergency
15.09.10 Footprints in grey liquefaction silt, St Pauls School, Gayhurst Rd, state of emergency
15.09.10. NO GO staff carpark, St Pauls School, Gayhurst Rd, state of emergency
15.09.10. White, plastic tape & wire mesh fence cordon. Quake damaged entrance, St Pauls School, Gayhurst Rd, state of emergency
15.09.10. Liquefaction damaged garden near St Pauls School, Gayhurst Rd, state of emergency
15.09.10. Liquefaction damaged Gayhurst Rd near St Pauls School, state of emergency
Gayhurst Rd: St Pauls School ghost was closed (soon demolished) but classes soon resumed at Catholic Cathedral College, Ferry Rd, which had spare facilities. The two schools stayed separate, lesson times, breaks staggered.
St Pauls school was fenced-off, quakemire everywhere, pavements cracked, playground asphalt cracked, DANGER taped, USAR / TF graffitied: NO GO. Around town, I'd seen USAR / TF spray-painted signs on many damaged-buidings. A cop wearing a yellow, Hi-Vis jacket & 2 NZDF soldiers wandered the school carpark, rubbernecking cracks & sinkholes.
Glenarm Tce: Briefly parallel to
Locksley Ave, following Avon River. Beautiful river views, but a horrible place to inhabit during quakes. Glenarm Tce, Locksley Ave were damaged, due to their closeness to Avon River & underground waters causing quakemire. Glenarm Tce, concrete-curbs were cracked, slumped by riverside lateral-spreading. The road was cracked, quakemired. Asphalt pavements, concrete-driveways cracked too. Gardens cracked by lateral-spreading.
15.09.10. Metro Bus Stop, quake damaged Gayhurst Rd, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake toppled road signs, quake damaged Gayhurst Rd / Glenarm Tce, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake crack, Gayhurst Rd by Glenarm Tce junction, state of emergency
15.09.10. Liquefaction damaged Gayhurst Rd / Glenarm Tce, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake damaged roadside, Gayhurst Rd / Glenarm Tce, state of emergency
15.09.10. Liquefaction cracked curb, Gayhurst Rd / Glenarm Tce, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake damaged Gayhurst Rd / Glenarm Tce, state of emergency
15.09.10. Liquefaction damaged roadside, Gayhurst Rd / Glenarm Tce, state of emergency
15.09.10. Liquefaction damaged curb, Gayhurst Rd / Glenarm Tce, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake cracked concrete curb & liquefactioned curb slumping, Glenarm Tce, state of emergency
15.09.10. Liquefaction damaged roadside, Glenarm Tce, state of emergency
15.09.10. Liquefaction damaged roadside, Glenarm Tce, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake damaged Glenarm Tce pavement, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake slumped garden, Glenarm Tce, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake cracked concrete garden path, Glenarm Tce, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake damaged driveway, Glenarm Tce, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake damaged pavement pipes, parked cop car, Glenarm Tce, state of emergency
15.09.10. Sinkhole. Glenarm Tce liquefaction damaged pavement, view along Locksley Ave, state of emergency
The cop & two NZDF soldiers, who'd earlier rubbernecked damaged St Paul's School, sat in their parked car watching me snapping damaged Glenarm Tce, last morning of the State-of-Emergency.
Later on another cop-car pulled up, then the two cop-cars road-blocked Locksley Ave beyond Glenarm Tce. I drove via
McBratneys Rd (not road-blocked) to
Locksley Ave to coolpix more quakemire & lateral-spreading of Avon River banks.
Christchurch's State-of-Emergency condoned confrontation, encouraging dobbing-in / snitching, which cops welcomed; allowed cops & soldiers to do standover tactics like shadowing with a cop-car; surveillance; questioning; confrontation; obstruction of right-of-way on footpaths; cordons; fencing; barriers like plastic-road-barriers, plastic-tapes; cop / military / council vehicle-barriers; harrying, harassment; most of which I would experience snapping images over three quake-years. Increased cops & military didn't protect me, their presence caused estrangement during quake-years. Caused cognitive-dissonance: protect public, but make public wary with WARNINGS, Hi-Vis jackets, uniforms, military-vehicles, surveillance, obstructions, cordons.
15.09.10. Sinkhole. Quake damaged pavement, driveway, Glenarm Tce, state of emergency
15.09.10. White, plastic tape & orange, plastic, road cone cordons. Liquefaction damaged Glenarm Tce / Locksley Ave, state of emergency
15.09.10. White, plastic tape & orange, plastic, road cone cordon. Liquefaction damaged driveway, Glenarm Tce / Locksley Ave, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake cracked & buckled concrete curb, Glenarm Tce, state of emergency
15.09.10. Shingle for repairing quake damaged road & concrete curb, Glenarm Tce / Locksley Ave, state of emergency
15.09.10. Shingle repairs, quake damaged Locksley Ave / Glenarm Tce, state of emergency
15.09.10. White, plastic tape & orange, plastic, road cone cordon. Shingle repairs, quake sinkhole & liquefaction damaged roads, Glenarm Tce / Locksley Ave, state of emergency
15.09.10. White, plastic tape & orange, plastic, road cone cordon. Shingle repairs, liquefactioned sinkhole, Glenarm Tce / Locksley Ave, state of emergency
There were already some repairs to roads & footpaths along
Gayhurst Rd, Glenarm Tce &
Locksley Ave. Some road-cracks were already tarsealed, footpathss patch-repaired with asphalt, while ubiquitous, orange-plastic-road-cones & white-plastic-DANGER-tape-cordoned repair areas.
Glenarm Tce / Locksley Ave: A big sinkhole was repaired with shingle.
Locksley Ave: Badly cracked. Spalled concrete-curbs, snapped concrete-curbs, road & curbs separated, cracked footpaths, lateral-spreading along Avon River banks by Kerrs Reach, leaving deep cracks & holes. Riverside concrete-drains slumped towards the water. Riverside, asphalt-footpath, cracked, buckled, warped. Liquefaction-boils on riverbank. Liquefaction-mud-heaps roadside. Brick, garden-wall fallen. Two- storey house, gable green-tarped. Brick-rubble on front-lawn. Blue-plastic-water-pipe laid on footpath. Roadside, orange-plastic-road-cones as hazard-warnings for sinkholes, road-cracks, broken-curbs, broken-drains, broken-driveways.
15.09.10. Glenarm Tce downstream view, Avon River, state of emergency. Liquefaction damaged opp bank, Avonside Dr. The quake trashed footbridge would be demolished post 22.02.11 quake
15.09.10. Quake toppled wall, Locksley Ave, state of emergency
15.09.10. Liquefaction damaged curb, Locksley Ave, state of emergency
15.09.10. Liquefaction cracked Locksley Ave tarseal, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake damaged footpath, Kerrs Reach, Avon River, Locksley Ave, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake warped footpath, Kerrs Reach, Avon River, Locksley Ave, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake cleft road, concrete curb, Locksley Ave, state of emergency
15.09.10. Patch repaired driveway, liquefaction damaged roadside, Locksley Ave, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake shattered concrete curb, Locksley Ave, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake damaged road, drain & concrete curb, Locksley Ave, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake lateral spreading of riverbank, slumping away from footpath, Kerrs Reach, Avon River, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake lateral spreading of riverbank & slumping, buckling, cracking of footpath, Kerrs Reach, Avon River, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake lateral spreading of riverbank & slumping, cracking of footpath, Kerrs Reach, Avon River, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake damaged footpath, Kerrs Reach, Avon River, state of emergency
15.09.10. Grey liquefaction silt piles, Locksley Ave, Kerrs Reach, Avon River, state of emergency
15.09.10. Liquefaction damaged Locksley Ave, state of emergency
15.09.10. Blue, plastic, water pipe. Liquefaction damaged roadside & pavement, Locksley Ave, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake damaged Locksley Ave house, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake damaged Locksley Ave, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake damaged Locksley Ave, Avon River, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake cracked footpath, Kerrs Reach, Avon River, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake slumped, concrete drain, Kerrs Reach, Avon River, state of emergency
15.09.01. Quake cracked Locksley Ave, state of emergency
15.09.10. Orange, plastic, road cone cordon, cyclist, cars. Quake cracked Locksley Ave by Kerrs Reach, Avon River, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake crack, Locksley Ave by Kerrs Reach, Avon River, state of emergency
15.09.10. Grey liquefaction boil, Locksley Ave, Kerrs Reach, Avon River, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake cracked, slumped riverbank, footpath, due to lateral spreading, Locksley Ave, Kerrs Reach, Avon River, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake cracked footpath, Locksley Ave, state of emergency
15.09.10. Quake cracked, buckled footpath, Kerrs Reach, Avon River, state of emergency
15.09.10. Lateral spreading. Quake cracked, slumped riverbank & footpath, Kerrs Reach, Avon River, state of emergency.
15.09.10. Quake damaged footpath view, quake damaged Avon Rowing Club, Kerrs Reach, Avon River, state of emergency. Avon Rowing Club would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake, demolished & rebuilt
15.09.10. Locksley Ave view, quake damaged Kerrs Reach rowing club houses, Avon River, state of emergency. Club houses would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake. Union Rowing Club right would be razed by fire, demolished & rebuilt
15.09.10. DANGER KEEP CLEAR Avon River view of a quake sinking KERRS REACH, Union Rowing Club, state of emergency. Post 22.02.11 quake trashing, Union Rowing Club would be razed by fire, demolished & rebuilt
Locksley Ave: Across Avon River, quake-sunk Union Rowing Club: Slumped tarseal footpath, sunk concrete-wall by clubhouse pontoons, obscuring KERRS REACH sign on the concrete-wall.
During the 22 February 2011 quake, Locksley Ave & Kerrs Reach rowing clubhouses would experience greater quake-damages. Union Rowing Club would be 22 February 2011 trashed, later razed by fire, demolished, rebuilt. Many trashed houses would be red-zoned, evacuated, both sides of Avon River
I drove back to Burnside via Gloucester St & Woodham Rd, detouring down Barbadoes St & Ferry Rd to snap Catholic Cathedral College, which would share post-quake school facilities with damaged St Paul's School, Gayhurst Rd.
Woodham Rd / Gloucester St: Damaged, brick buildings would be closed for months. Fallen brick-parapet, blue-tarped-roof. Heaps of brick- rubble behind yellow-plastic-taped; orange-plastic-road-coned; steel-mesh-fence-cordon. The 22 February 2011 quake would completely trash the buildings. Why did authorities allow those old, brick-buildings to stand so long post 4 September 2010 quake?
15.09.10. Steel mesh fence cordoned, quake damaged Dairy, Woodham Rd / Gloucester St, state of emergency. Dairy would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished
15.09.10. Steel mesh fence cordoned, quake damaged bldgs, Gloucester St, state of emergency. Bldgs would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished
15.09.10. Fallen brick parapet & wall, quake damaged roof, Gloucester St, state of emergency. Bldg would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished
15.09.10. Steel mesh fence cordoned, red stickered, boarded, quake damaged bldg, Gloucester St, state of emergency. Bldg would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished
15.09.10. Steel mesh fence cordoned, quake damaged bldg, Gloucester St / Woodham Rd, state of emergency. Bldg would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished
15.09.10. Steel mesh fence cordoned, quake damaged Dairy, Gloucester St / Woodham Rd, state of emergency. Dairy would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished
Woodham Rd / Avonside Dr: Tilted concrete-garden-wall, wood-braced, orange-plastic-tape-cordoned. Fallen brick-garden-wall. Brick-rubble in garden. Brick-garden-wall boarded. Buckled road-island-bricks, orange-plastic-road-cone warning.
15.09.10. Orange, plastic taped & orange, plastic, road cone cordoned. Wood braced, quake leaning, garden wall, Woodham Rd / Avonside Dr, state of emergency.
15.09.10. Orange, plastic, tape cordon. Fallen brick, garden wall, boarded, Avonside Dr / Woodham Rd, state of emergency
15. 09.10. Quake damaged traffic island, Woodham Rd, state of emergency
Barbadoes St / Ferry Rd: By Catholic Cathedral College carpark: three-storey Music Centre of Christchurch, brick-gable fallen, brick- rubble in school carpark, blue-tarped-gable. Yellow, Titan crane-truck suspended a crane-box onto Music Centre roof for roof-repairs by an orange, Hi-Vis vested workman. Barbadoes St: Fallen Oamaru whitestone-parapet, fallen brick-gables, blue-tarped, steel-mesh-fence-cordoned.
15.09.10. Catholic Cathedral College, Ferry Rd / Barbadoes St, state of emergency. RC Cathedral behind would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake
15.09.10. Yellow, Titan crane truck suspending crane box on roof, while workmen repair quake damaged Music Centre of Christchurch, Barbadoes St, state of emergency. Bldg would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished
15.09.10. Quake damaged Music Centre of Christchurch, Barbadoes St / Ferry Rd, state of emergency. Bldg would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished
15.09.10. Quake damaged Catholic Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, Barbadoes St, state of emergency. Twin towers would collapse in the 22.02.11 quake. RC Cathedral would be part deconstructed, stone by stone, post 22.02.11 quake: Dome would be crane removed, shipping containers would prop transept walls & front facade, stopping more tower collapse, while traffic passed on Barbadoes St
*Trekked Richardson Tce, Ferry Rd, Gayhurst Rd, Glenarm Tce, Locksley Ave, Kerrs Reach, Woodham Rd, Gloucester St, Barbadoes St. 95 snaps.
Facebook:
Earthquake Commission (EQC) received 50 000+ damage-claims, expecting 100 000. 15 September 3.39pm.
@Maggie [Durban Camera Club Chairperson]. Snaps will take time. Christchurch is organized chaos, many people homeless, traumatised. For most people who've survived the quake, photos are the last thing on their minds.
I limited myself to a card & a half for digital-snaps & two rolls of film for conventional-snaps. I've deleted some digital-snaps for want of card-space. I snapped Canterbury Plains damages, not Port Hills suburbs, nor farms, nor small towns near Christchurch, like Kaiapoi & Lyttelton (tunnel out of commission).
After the quake I neglected domestic-chores, the last 13 days I've gone out daily, taking difficult snaps, due to damaged infrastructure, military-cordoned-roads, cracked-roads, wobbly-buildings, drivers' inattention, traffic-jams due to road-blocks, during the State-of-Emergency ending yesterday, Wednesday.
I'm not rushing snap uploads, as uploading & captioning takes time. I'm exhausted. Trekked dangerous miles past unstable-buildings, loose- bricks, gables, parapets, roofs during aftershocks, cops & troops prowling, scowling. My expenses: petrol, car wear & tear, film, film development, camera-cards, batteries, new battery-charger.
I'll edit over 1 500 snaps. I'll upload & do captions on my Woza Wanderer blog, maybe Facebook. Haven't decided yet on order or procedure, each pic has emotional / physical / financial toll. One of Leah's teacher pals demanded copies of my copyright snaps. I refused.
I've seen so much destruction in the last two weeks, some snaps I took, I battled to remember where? Change was happening fast: cordons, clean ups, demolitions, repairs, there was no time to take notes or jot down street names, building names, etc. Recall will take time. [I would use a Christchurch map & revisit places to double-check].
Quake toll: Widespread damage, grief, trauma costs! Long lasting effects too. 16 September 11.32am.
@Andrew. Hectic. Rugby WC fever strong in NZ. Christchurch AMI Stadium survived the quake. Billboards advertise RWC matches. A digital-clock in
Cathedral Sq advertises RWC & countdown to RWC. 16 September 11.44am.
Coda:
22 February 2011 quake would trash AMI stadium & Christchurch hospitality industry: hotels, pubs, restaurants gone. RWC fixtures would relocate elsewhere in NZ.
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