Thereafter I drove to Halswell to snap damages. We'd lived eight years in Halswell. Our sons went to Oaklands Primary there. Leah started her Christchurch teaching in Halswell, after years of teaching in South Africa & London. I finished late afternoon, snapping damaged St John's Anglican Church, Latimer Sq.
Wairakei Rd: House-rental advertisement. Post-quake rentals were like gold, due to the influx of contractors needing accommodation.
11.09.10. Forsythia, rental, Wairakei Rd, state of emergency. Rentals were in demand post quake
Cranford St / Westminster St: Orange-plastic-road-cones; steel-mesh-cordoned rubble, demolished-shops.
11.09.10. Demolished shops, steel mesh fence cordoned, Cranford St, state of emergency. Rubble soon removed. Post 22.02.11 quake the site would be full of liquefaction silt volcanoes
11.09.10. Chris's Clothing Services fence sign by demolished shops, Cranford St, state of emergency.
11.09.10. Demolished shops, Cranford St / Westminster St, steel mesh fence cordoned, state of emergency. Rubble soon removed. Post 22.02.11 quake the site would be full of liquefaction silt volcanoes
11.09.10. Demolished shops, steel mesh fence cordoned, Cranford St / Westminster St, state of emergency. Rubble soon removed. Post 22.02.11 quake the site would be full of liquefaction silt volcanoes
Westminster St: Three yellow-stickered, ghost-shops, white-plastic-tape, steel-mesh-cordoned: Angus Meats, brick-parapet collapsed; tiled-roof damaged, black-plastic cover; USAR / TF, yellow, spray-painted NO on glass-door. Fish + Chips shop, brick-rubble on footpath; NO spray-painted on windows & doors. The three shops would be demolished.
11.09.10. Quake damaged Angus Meats, fallen brick parapet (soon demolished) steel mesh fence cordon, Cranford St / Westminster St, state of emergency
11.09.10. Green stickered door, Angus Meats (soon demolished) Cranford St / Westminster St, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake damaged roof, fallen parapet, Angus Meats (soon demolished) steel mesh fence cordon, Cranford St / Westminster St, state of emergency
Pre-quakes, Jake flatted at Westminster St while studying graphic design at Natcoll, Peterborough St. Demolition-site, steel-mesh-fence-cordon, hand-written sign:
CHRIS'S CLOTHING
SERVICES
NOW @ CONTACT NO...
CORNER OF
WESTMINSTER STREET
AND HILLS ROADS
THANKS TO ALL
MY VALUE CUSTOMERS
During quake years, I saw many similar signs: trashed, relocated businesses, wanting to stay in business. As a tribute to those who lost business during quakes, I copied signs / notices & mentioned business-names in my blog posts. Many businesses relocated or folded due to quakes.
11.09.10. Quake damaged shop (soon demolished) steel mesh fence cordoned, Westminster St, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake damaged shop (soon demolished) steel mesh fence cordoned, Westminster St, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake damaged Fish + Chips (soon demolished) steel mesh fence cordoned, Westminster St, state of emergency
11.09.10. Liquefaction mud pile, Edgeware Rd, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake trashed iron gate, St Mary & St Athanasius Coptic Church (soon demolished) Edgeware Rd, state of emergency
11.09.10. Gate Sign, St Mary & St Athanasius Coptic Church (soon demolished) Edgeware Rd, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake trashed St Mary & St Athanasius Coptic Church (soon demolished) Edgeware Rd, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake trashed St Mary & St Athanasius Coptic Church, fallen gable, (soon demolished) Edgeware Rd, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake trashed, red stickered facade, fallen gable, St Mary & St Athanasius Coptic Church (soon demolished) Edgeware Rd, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake trashed iron gate & red stickered door, St Mary & St Athanasius Coptic Church (soon demolished) Edgeware Rd, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake trashed, fallen gable, red stickered, St Mary & St Athanasius Coptic Church (soon demolished) Edgeware Rd, state of emergency
11.09.10. Memorial to two girls murdered on Edgeware Rd, St Mary & St Athanasius Coptic Church (soon demolished) state of emergency
Edgeware Rd: Red-stickered, St Mary & St Athanasius Coptic Church ghost: orange-plastic-road-cones; white-plastic-tape-cordoned; brick-gable fallen; rubble in front-garden; front-gate steel, buckled by fallen-bricks; grey, quakemire heap on footpath. The Coptic Church would be demolished.
Edgeware Rd / Sherborne St: PostShop window boarded. YES WE ARE OPEN sign.
Sherborne St: Hardware ghost, two-storey, wooden-shed-wall, bent by quake. Leaning shed would soon be demolished.
11.09.10. Newly boarded, quake damaged PostShop, Sherborne St / Edgeware Rd, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake bent wood shed, steel mesh fence cordoned (soon demolished) Sherborne St, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake bent wood shed, steel mesh fence cordoned (soon demolished) Sherborne St, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake bent wood shed, steel mesh fence cordoned (soon demolished) Sherborne St, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake bent wood shed, steel mesh fence cordoned, (soon demolished) Sherborne St, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake trashed wood shed, steel mesh fence cordoned (soon demolished) Sherborne St, state of emergency
I detoured down Manchester St to snap damaged-housing & see another of Jake's old, rental-houses, which had survived the quake well.
Manchester St: Two-storey house, damaged-chimney, tin-roof. Brick-rubble on concrete-footpath. White-plastic-tape-cordon.
11.09.10. Quake damaged chimney, Manchester St, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake damaged chimney rubble, Manchester St, state of emergency
11.09.10. Manchester St, rental house undamaged by the quake, state of emergency
Sherborne St: House-chimney, brick-rubble on tin-roof. Another house, brick-&-tile-rubble on tiled-roof. Brick, side-wall peeled off a third house, rubble in driveway.
11.09.10. Quake toppled chimney, Sherborne St, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake damaged roof, Sherborne St, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake damaged porch, Sherborne St, state of emergency. The house would be demolished
10.09.10. New tradesman sign by quake damaged houses, Sherborne St, state of emergency. The house would be demolished
Yesterday, late afternoon, Sherborne St, I'd coolpixed a trashed, two-storey, ghost-house. Sign which appeared overnight on a wooden, garden-fence:
EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE
* DEMOLITION
* BUILDING
* CONSTRUCTION
* REPAIRS
* MAINTENANCE...
The sign didn't last long. Without permission, tradesmen attached signs on walls, advertising wares. Tradesmen had lots of work post-quake. Building-inspectors, engineers, demolishers, planners, architects, designers too.
11.09.10. Quake damaged house for sale, Sherborne St, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake damaged house for sale, fallen brick chimney & wall, Sherborne St, state of emergency
Bealey Ave: Red-stickered, two-storey, The Deanery ghost. Green wooden-gate, red-plastic-taped. USAR / TF, yellow, spray-painted NO GO on brick garden-wall & front window-glass. Three brick-chimneys, rubble on tin-roof. Upper brick-wall peeled off showing two "dolls-house" bedrooms. Brick-wall buckled. The Deanery would be demolished. Other trashed house-roofs, covered in blue or yellow, plastic-tarps.
11.09.10. The Deanery gate, red taped, Bealey Ave, state of emergency. Demolished during the national state of emergency post 22.02.11 quake
11.09.10. NO GO The Deanery, brick garden wall, Bealey Ave, state of emergency
11.09.10. Red camellia, quake trashed The Deanery, Bealey Ave, state of emergency. Demolished during the national state of emergency post 22.02.11 quake
11.09.10. Quake trashed, red stickered The Deanery, Bealey Ave, state of emergency. Demolished during the national state of emergency post 22.02.11 quake
11.09.10. Quake trashed The Deanery, Bealey Ave, state of emergency. Demolished during the national state of emergency post 22.02.11 quake
11.09.10. Pink camellia, quake trashed bedrooms, The Deanery, Bealey Ave, state of emergency. Demolished during the national state of emergency post 22.02.11 quake
11.09.10. Flexible plants, brittle bricks. Quake trashed The Deanery, Bealey Ave, state of emergency. Demolished during the national state of emergency post 22.02.11 quake
Durham St Nth: Two workmen, one in blue, cherry-picker box, attached a green plastic-tarp on a two-storey house, tiled-roof. Brick- chimney collapse caused hole in roof. Tarp anchored by suspended car-tyres.
11.09.10. White magnolia & green tarp anchored by suspended tyres on quake damaged roof, Bealey Ave / Durham St Nth, state of emergency
11.09.10. Workmen laying a green tarp on a quake damaged roof, Durham St Nth, state of emergency
11.09.10. White magnolia & green tarps on a quake damaged roof, Durham St Nth / Bealey Ave, state of emergency
Bealey Ave / Victoria St: Knox Presbyterian Church, brick-gables peeled off. Boarded-gables. Saggio di Vino, bricks peeled off wall. NO GO green spray-painted on windows by USAR / TF. Brick-rubble on footpath.
11.09.10. Quake damaged roof covered in yellow, blue & black tarps, Bealey Ave, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake damaged roofs: Saggio di vino & Knox Presbyterian Church, Bealey Ave / Victoria St, state of emergency cordon. Knox Church & Saggio di vino would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake. Saggio di Vino would be demolished. After 3 years standing vacant post quakes, Knox Church would be restored in 2014
11.09.10. USAR / TF graffito: X NO GO, Saggio di vino, Bealey Ave / Victoria St, state of emergency cordon. Saggio di vino would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished
11.09.10. NO X Saggio di vino, Bealey Ave / Victoria St, state of emergency cordon. Within weeks scaffolding was erected & the outer quake damaged wall (Bealey Ave side) of Saggio di vino would be demolished & rebuilt. Repaired Saggio di vino would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished
11.09.10. Bealey Ave crossing view, state of emergency, cop car & white, plastic, tape cordon on Victoria St & demolished bldg behind Saggio di vino
11.09.10. Quake damaged Saggio di vino, Bealey Ave / Victoria St, state of emergency cordon. Bldgs behind the skip, incl Saggio di vino, would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished
11.09.10. Quake damaged Knox Presbyterian Church view, demolition site behind quake damaged Saggio di vino, Bealey Ave / Victoria St state of emergency cordon. Bldg behind skip would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake
I drove to Westfield Riccarton to see damaged Riccarton Rd again. Riccarton Mall was full of customers, food-court open, business- as-usual. Rotherham St, Fox & Ferret gastropub where Jake worked, business-as-usual. But worse quakes would come.
Riccarton Rd / Rotherham St: Westfield Riccarton airbridge undamaged. White-plastic-tape; orange-plastic-road-cone-cordon, guarded by one NZDF soldier. Rubberneckers chatting. Across Riccarton Rd: demolition-rubble, white-plastic-tape; steel-mesh-fence-cordon.
11.09.10. Westfield Riccarton air bridge undamaged by the quake, Rotherham St, state of emergency cordon
11.09.10. Saturday afternoon rubberneckers & NZDF soldier, Rotherham St, state of emergency, white, plastic taped & orange, plastic, road cone cordon
11.09.10. Demolished bldg by Browsers, steel mesh fence cordoned, Riccarton Rd, state of emergency
11.09.10. Fox & Ferret gastropub, undamaged by quake, Rotherham St, state of emergency
11.09.10. Westfield Riccarton food court, open for business after several days' quake closure, state of emergency
I drove to Halswell to see damage there. St John of God Church, Halswell: Red-plastic-tape; orange-plastic-road cone-cordon. Oamaru- whitestone rubble by glass front-door. White plastic-tarp on slate-roof. During our eight Halswell years, Leah taught at a school by St John of God Church.
11.09.10. Quake damaged roof, St John of God Anglican Church, red, plastic, tape cordoned, Halswell, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake damaged St John of God Anglican Church, red, plastic taped, orange, plastic, road cone cordoned, Halswell, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake damaged St John of God Anglican Church, red & white, plastic taped, orange, plastic, road cone cordoned, Halswell, state of emergency
Nottingham Ave: Concrete-block garden-wall, fallen onto grass-verge. WHO DID IT? sign on fallen-wall. Grey quakemire heaps on roadside. Two garden-gnomes atop liquefaction volcanoes on a front-lawn. 40 Nottingham Ave house, which we'd rented for eight years, undamaged. Jake & Luke grew up there. Grey quakemire in gutter by the house.
11.09.10. WHO DID IT? sign on quake toppled, garden wall, Nottingham Ave, Halswell, state of emergency.
11.09.10. Liquefaction silt piles, Nottingham Ave, Halswell, state of emergency. Port Hills backdrop
11.09.10. Garden gnomes on liquefaction boils, Nottingham Ave, Halswell, state of emergency
11.09.10. Liquefaction silt pile, Nottingham Ave / Gore St, Halswell, state of emergency
11.09.10. 40 Nottingham Ave house, undamaged by quake, Halswell, state of emergency. We had rented the house for 8 years, our sons grew up here
11.09.10. Liquefaction silt in gutter, 40 Nottingham Ave, Halswell, state of emergency
11.09.10. Liquefaction silt pile by shops, Nottingham Ave / Gore St, Halswell, state of emergency. This silt pile was opp 40 Nottingham Ave, where we'd lived for 8 years
Halswell was built on swampland & flood-plain, so there was lots of grey silt below vegetation. When I'd dug holes in our 40 Nottingham Ave garden I'd found a silt-layer ranging in depth from 20cm to 500cm. Below the silt was alluvial-shingle. So the quake had tons of silt to shove up in liquefaction-mounds all over Halswell.
Two years after our arrival in Halswell, in 1997 Leah began part-time teaching of learning-disabled students at Oaklands Primary & Halswell School, the latter badly damaged by liquefaction, the former undamaged.
Seismic-waves formed random damage-pockets throughout Christchurch & beyond, vast areas, no damage at all. About 90% of Christchurch was undamaged, like new Aidanfield & Styx Mill suburbs. Many Port Hill suburbs like Kennedys Bush were undamaged. Christchurch damage was limited in the 4 September 2010, M7.1 quake, as the Greendale fault was W of Christchurch, epicentre near Darfield. Later quakes, lower magnitudes, would be more damaging to Christchurch, faults & epicentres closer.
Many old, brick or stone buildings were damaged, riverside & swamp suburbs badly damaged: quakemire & shaking very destructive. There was often damage by streams & rivers. Halswell School was built on swampland between streams: one by Halswell Rd, another by Kennedys Bush Rd.
Halswell Rd / School Rd, Halswell School: Driveways, footpaths, road-tarseal cracked & buckled. Grey liquefaction-heaps roadside. A student-gang heaped grey liquefaction-mud roadside, School Rd. Both roads, orange-plastic-road-cone-cordoned, slowing traffic. Steel front- gate: DANGER KEEP OUT red-plastic-taped. School front glass-door, yellow-plastic-taped. Liquefaction-sinkhole on roadside opposite school. Concrete-curb pulled away from footpath, opposite school. Road-damages were caused by lateral-spreading as road-bits slid towards the roadside stream. Gutter-concrete snapped by drain steel-grille. Two yellow, Hi-Vis vested inspectors inspected roads & school.
11.09.10. Quake damaged Halswell Rd, Halswell School, state of emergency
11.09.10. Student gang digging liquefaction silt, School Rd, near Halswell School, state of emergency
11.09.10. Student gang digging liquefaction silt, School Rd, Halswell, state of emergency
11.09.10. Orange, plastic, road cone cordon. Liquefaction silt & quake buckled, Halswell Rd pavement by Halswell School, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake cracked Halswell Rd pavement by Halswell School, state of emergency
11.09.10. Orange, plastic, road cone cordon. Liquefaction silt piles, Halswell Rd by Halswell School, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake state of emergency padlocked & red taped Halswell School gate, DANGER KEEP OUT, Halswell Rd. Office block left & classroom right would be demolished
11.09.10. Liquefaction silt piles, Halswell School, Halswell Rd, state of emergency
11.09.10. Civil Defence sign, Halswell School, Halswell Rd, state of emergency
11.09.10. Halswell Rd crack & school liquefaction, Halswell School, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake buckled driveway over stream, opp Halswell School, Halswell Rd, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake damaged Halswell Rd, orange, plastic, road cone cordoned, opp Halswell School, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake damaged Halswell Rd & shoe, orange, plastic, road cone cordoned, opp Halswell School, state of emergency
11.09.10. Liquefaction sinkhole by road gutter, opp Halswell School, Halswell Rd, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake damaged manhole & roadside opp Halswell School, orange, plastic, road cone cordoned, Halswell Rd, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake damaged Halswell Rd & Metro bus, orange, plastic, road cone cordoned, opp Halswell School, state of emergency
11.09.10. Cyclists & traffic. Quake damaged roadside, orange, plastic, road cone cordoned, Halswell Rd, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake caused road holes, orange, plastic, road coned cordoned, opp Halswell School, Halswell Rd, state of emergency
11.09.10. Cyclists & traffic. Quake damaged Halswell Rd, orange, plastic, road cone cordoned, opp Halswell School, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake cracked pavement & pedestrians, Halswell Rd, state of emergency
11.09.10. Yellow, Hi-Vis vested, bldg inspectors, Halswell School, Halswell Rd, state of emergency
Kennedys Bush Rd, Halswell School: DANGER KEEP OUT red-plastic-tape on steel back-gate. Gutter-concrete snapped by drain steel-grille. Opposite school, in paddock, grey, quakemire oozed from liquefaction volcanoes.
11.09.10. Quake damaged drain, gutter concrete snapped near steel drain grille, Kennedys Bush Rd, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake damaged drain, gutter concrete snapped near steel drain grille, Kennedys Bush Rd, state of emergency
11.09.10. Liquefaction volcano by stream fence in paddock, Kennedys Bush Rd, state of emergency
11.09.10. Liquefaction volcanoes in paddock, Kennedys Bush Rd, state of emergency
11.09.10. Liquefaction volcanoes by stream fence in paddock, Kennedys Bush Rd, state of emergency.
11.09.10. Liquefaction volcano by stream fence in paddock, Kennedys Bush Rd, state of emergency
11.09.10. Liquefaction volcano in paddock opp Halswell school, Kennedys Bush Rd, state of emergency
Liquefaction-volcanoes, aka boils, caused damage to Christchurch & Canterbury roads, footpaths, drains, manholes, underground water-pipes, sewage-pipes, cables, foundations, gardens, driveways, buildings. Quake shock: shaken out of bed in darkness, a widening hole in the floor, mud oozing in, trapping you behind mud-jammed doors.
11.09.10. Farm gate, liquefactioned paddock, Kennedys Bush Rd, state of emergency
11.09.10. DANGER KEEP OUT. Bldg inspectors inspecting quake damaged Halswell School, Kennedys Bush Rd, state of emergency. Damaged bldgs would be demolished, prefabs erected by the path
11.09.10. Liquefaction damaged Halswell School path, red, plastic, tape cordoned, DANGER KEEP OUT, Kennedys Bush Rd, state of emergency. Damaged bldgs would be demolished, prefabs erected by the path & bordering the field
11.09.10. Liquefaction boil, Halswell School rugby field, Kennedys Bush Rd, state of emergency
Post-quake, Halswell School would partly open, junior students taught in undamaged classrooms. Rest of the school, teachers, senior students, would go to Manning Intermediate School & Hillmorton High School, spare classrooms there. Damaged buildings would be demolished at Halswell School, office & classroom prefabs erected, bordering two sides of the school field.
Melrose Farm: Two men shovelled quakemire roadside, a huge heap. Nearby, damaged concrete-drain, steel manhole-lid shoved above road-surface.
11.09.10. Liquefaction silt diggers, Melrose Farm, Kennedys Bush Rd, state of emergency
11.09.10. Concrete manhole shoved above ground surface by liquefaction silt, Kennedys Bush Rd, state of emergency
11.09.10. Sinkhole. Liquefaction damaged, concrete drain, Kennedys Bush Rd, state of emergency
11.09.10. Liquefaction damaged, concrete drain by a paddock, Kennedys Bush Rd, state of emergency
11.09.10. Top of Kennedys Bush Rd view of Halswell, Canterbury Plains & snowy Southern Alps, state of emergency
Since the 4 September 2010, M7.1 quake, aftershocks were ongoing, most ignored or not felt, depending on epicentre depth & distance from Christchurch. Some aftershocks were impossible to ignore, if one was shaken, or one's car or house was shaking.
Monday 18 October 2010. It was impossible to ignore the M4.1 aftershock, 2.11pm, which jolted our Burnside house, shook my chair & computer screen while I typed.
Tuesday 19 October 2010. I didn't notice the M4 aftershock, 10.54am, but felt the M5 aftershock, 11.32am, which shook Taitapu, Halswell, Christchurch (GeoNet). I was sitting in my car waiting for Luke who was speaking to his builder boss at Naseby St, while I watched an old woman collecting post at her post-box. My car bounced for 30 seconds odd, power-lines jiggled overhead, the old woman held onto her post-box pole for dear life.
Luke returned saying, "That was a big one! Cars in the garage bounced while I talked to Richard." People had evacuated Westfield Riccarton Mall & CBD bldgs.
Jake later told me he was working in the kitchen at Under The Red Verandah restaurant, Worcester St, at his new job when the M5 aftershock hit. Stacked-plates started shaking, so he placed his hands on top to stop breakages. The restaurant was an undamaged, two-storey, wooden-building. But one of Under The Red Verandah restaurant buildings would collapse in the M6.3, 22 February 2011 quake.
I drove to Christchurch-CBD, snapping damaged Cashmere Rd & St Johns Anglican Church ghost, Latimer Sq.
Cashmere Rd: Cracked-tarseal. Tilted power-pole, base supported by a concrete-block. Orange-plastic-road-cone-cordon.
Latimer Sq, Hereford St, St Johns Anglican Church ghost: White-plastic-tape across greystone, gate-posts. Yellow-sticker on green-door. Halswell-greystone, nave W wall: Oamaru-whitestones fallen from spire. (Nave W wall would be steel-braced within a week). N transept-wall, greystones fallen from above rose-window. Chancel, slate-roof smashed by greystones fallen from tower. Top of tower ruin, bell-pulley silhouetted against grey-sky. Chancel, greystones cracked above neo-Gothic, lancet-windows. Heaps of greystones & concrete-rubble in church-yard. Next-door, brick-church building, bricks fallen onto asphalt, roof-slates damaged.
St Johns steel-fence sign:
St Johns will 3 pm -
meet together afternoon tea
this Sunday 4 pm - service
Location: -
St Saviours
200 Colombo St
All welcome... Listen and talk
Listen and talk to one another
to God
Ghost-church congregations had to find safe-venues for services.
Back home I snapped daffodils in our front-garden. Excepting some fallen-trees, plants weren't affected much by quakes, better adapted to quakes than humans.
11.09.10. Quake cracked, Cashmere Rd, near Halswell, state of emergency
11.09.10. Concrete block supporting quake tilted, power pole by Wagonstays, Cashmere Rd, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake damaged, temp repaired, Cashmere Rd by Wagonstays, state of emergency
11.09.10. Quake damaged, St John's Anglican Church, Latimer Sq, state of emergency. St John's would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished. Shigeru Ban's Cardboard Cathedral would be built on site
11.09.10. Quake notice on fence, St John's Anglican Church, Latimer Sq, state of emergency. St John's would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished. Shigeru Ban's Cardboard Cathedral would be built on site
11.09.10. Yellow stickered, St John's Anglican Church door, Latimer Sq, state of emergency. St John's would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished. Shigeru Ban's Cardboard Cathedral would be built on site
11.09.10. Quake damaged nave, W wall, St John's Anglican Church, Latimer Sq, state of emergency. Within a week the nave W wall was metal braced against aftershocks. St John's would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished. Shigeru Ban's Cardboard Cathedral would be built on site
11.09.10. Quake damaged, brick gable & slate roof, St John's Anglican Church, Madras St. St John's would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished. Shigeru Ban's Cardboard Cathedral would be built on site
11.09.10. Quake damaged, N transept, St John's Anglican Church, Latimer Sq, state of emergency. St John's would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished. Shigeru Ban's Cardboard Cathedral would be built on site
11.09.10. Quake smashed, chancel roof & tower, St John's Anglican Church, Latimer Sq, state of emergency. St John's would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished. Shigeru Ban's Cardboard Cathedral would be built on site
11.09.10. Close up, quaked smashed, chancel roof, St John's Anglican Church, Latimer Sq, state of emergency. St John's would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished. Shigeru Ban's Cardboard Cathedral would be built on site
11.09.10. Quake damaged tower, neo Gothic, lancet windows, St John's Anglican Church, Latimer Sq, state of emergency. St John's would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished. Shigeru Ban's Cardboard Cathedral would be built on site
11.09.10. Quake damaged tower bell pulley, St John's Anglican Church, Latimer Sq, state of emergency. St John's would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished. Shigeru Ban's Cardboard Cathedral would be built on site
11.09.10. Quake damaged chancel & tower, St John's Anglican Church, Latimer Sq, state of emergency. St John's would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished. Shigeru Ban's Cardboard Cathedral would be built on site
11.09.10. Quake damaged chancel & tower. St John's Anglican Church, Latimer Sq, state of emergency. St John's would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished. Shigeru Ban's Cardboard Cathedral would be built on site
11.09.10. Heath St garden daffodils during the quake state of emergency
*Trekked Wairakei Rd, Cranford St, Westminster St, Edgeware Rd, Sherborne St, Manchester St, Bealey Ave, Durham St Nth, Rotherham St, Riccarton Rd, St John of God Anglican Church, Nottingham Ave, Halswell Rd, School Rd, Kennedys Bush Rd, Cashmere Rd, St John's Anglican Church, Latimer Sq, Madras St, Heath St. 120 snaps.
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Christchurch: M7.1 Darfield Quake one week ago, no one killed. 250 000 Haitians were killed in the January, Haiti M7.0 quake. I've become intimate with buildings to be demolished in Christchurch. 11 September 8.01am.
@Alan. NZ National government: Local National MP Gerry Brownlee is in Christchurch coordinating things. Local government: Seeking photo-ops, mayor Bob Parker talks about Christchurch "resilience".
Student-gangs dig quakemire from roads, gardens. Orange-plastic-road-cones, temporary-fencing, containers sprout on roads, barriers to dangerous road-sections & unstable-buildings. DANGER plastic-tapes & signs proliferate. Cranes, cherry-pickers, scissor-lifts roam, lifting workmen to remove rubble & repair roofs. Damaged-chimneys, roof-gables, walls are wood-braced. Useable-chimneys are bandaged in plastic. 11 September 8.33am.
I've heard enough St John ambulance & cop-car sirens, seen enough flickering clean-up & reconstruction vehicle-lights, seen enough olive troop-vans, enough blue-clad-cops with yellow, Hi-Vis jackets, camo-brown Burnham troops, black-overall-clad navy guys, black-overall-clad USAR / TF guys, orange Hi-Vis vested CD guys; Hi-Vis vested building-inspectors / insurance guys to last a lifetime. 11 September 9.07am.
Christchurch City Council & CD are demolishing brick-buildings during the State-of-Emergency. What the M7.1 Darfield Quake & aftershocks started, excavators, diggers, dump-trucks will complete. 11 September 9.22am.
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