Saturday, October 16, 2010

Sat 11.09.10. Darfield Quake. Day 8. Damaged Streets & Halswell

Sat 11.09.10. Darfield Quake. Day 8. State of Emergency. Streets, bldgs, Halswell focus. I snapped more quake damage in Cranford St, continuing as Sherborne St & some of its crossings; snapped more quake damage along Bealey Ave; then drove to Westfield Riccarton, which had been closed for shop inspections for days.

Thereafter I drove to Halswell to snap quake damage. We'd lived 8 years in Halswell. Our sons went to Oaklands Primary there. Leah had started her Christchurch teaching in Halswell, after years of teaching in RSA & London. I finished up late afternoon snapping quake damaged St John's Anglican Church, Latimer Sq.

Wairakei Rd: House rental for hire. 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: 3 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 pavement; NO spray-painted on windows & doors. The 3 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 had 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

Over quake years, I saw many similar signs: quake trashed, relocated businesses, wanting to stay in business. Whenever possible, as a tribute to those who lost business during quakes, I copied signs & 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; front brick gable fallen; rubble in front garden; front gate steel, buckled by fallen bricks; grey, liquefaction mud heap on pavement. The Coptic Church would be demolished.

Edgeware Rd / Sherborne St: PostShop window boarded. YES WE ARE OPEN sign.

Sherborne St: Hardware ghost, 2 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: 2 storey house, chimney damaged, 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 quake trashed, 2 storey, ghost house. An EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE sign had appeared overnight on a wooden, garden fence:

EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE

* DEMOLITION
* BUILDING
* CONSTRUCTION
* REPAIRS
* MAINTENANCE...

The sign didn't last long. Without permission, cheeky tradesmen had attached signs to walls, advertising their 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, 2 storey, The Deanery ghost. Green wooden gate, red plastic taped. USAR / TF, yellow, spray-painted NO GO on brick, garden wall & front window glass. 3 brick chimneys, rubble on tin roof. Upper brick wall peeled off showing 2 "dolls house" bedrooms. Brick wall buckled elsewhere. The Deanery would be demolished. Other quake 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: 2 workmen, 1 in blue, cherry picker box, attached a green, plastic tarp on a 2 storey house, tiled roof. Brick chimney collapse caused huge 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. Gables boarded. Saggio di Vino, bricks peeled off wall. NO GO green spray-painted on windows by USAR / TF. Brick rubble on pavement.


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 quake 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 1 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 quake 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 8 Halswell years, Leah had taught children 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, liquefaction mud heaps on roadside. 2 garden gnomes on top of liquefaction volcanoes on a front lawn. 40 Nottingham Ave house, which we'd rented for 8 years, undamaged. Jake & Luke had grown up there. Grey, liquefaction mud 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 old swampland & ancient 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 had begun part-time teaching of learning disabled students at Oaklands Primary & Halswell School, the latter badly damaged by liquefaction, the former undamaged by the quake.

Christchurch quake damage was random, where seismic waves formed 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 quake damage was limited in the 04.09.10, M7.1 Darfield 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 destructive. There was often quake damage by streams & rivers. Halswell School had been built on swampland between streams: one by Halswell Rd, another by Kennedys Bush Rd.

Halswell Rd / School Rd, Halswell School: Driveways, pavements, road tarseal cracked & buckled. Grey liquefaction mud heaps roadside. A student gang heaped grey, liquefaction mud roadside, School Rd. Both roads, orange, plastic, road cone cordoned, slowing traffic. Steel, front gate, red, plastic taped: DANGER KEEP OUT. School front, glass door, yellow, plastic taped. Liquefaction sinkhole on roadside opp school. Concrete curb pulled away from pavement, opp school. Road damages were caused by lateral spreading as road bits slid towards the roadside stream. Gutter concrete snapped by steel drain grille. 2 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 school, steel, back gate. Gutter concrete snapped by steel drain grille. In paddock opp school, 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, pavements, drains, manholes, footpaths, underground water pipes, sewage pipes, cables, foundations, gardens, driveways, bldgs. Quake normal: 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 bldgs would be demolished at Halswell School, office & classroom prefabs erected, bordering two sides of the school field.

Melrose Farm: 2 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 04.09.10, M7.1 Darfield 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.

Mon 18.10.10. It was impossible to ignore the M4.1 aftershock, 2.11pm, which jolted our Burnside house, shook my chair & computer screen while I typed.

Tues 19.10.10. 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 her post at her post box. My car bounced for 30 secs 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 of 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, 2 storey, wooden bldg. But one of Under The Red Verandah restaurant bldgs would collapse in the M6.3, 22.02.11 Killer Quake.

I drove to Christchurch CBD, snapping quake 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 bldg, 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 bldgs to be demolished in Chch. 11 September 8.01am.

@Alan. NZ National govt: Local National MP Gerry Brownlee is in Chch coordinating things. Local govt: Seeking photo-ops, mayor Bob Parker talks about "resilience".

Student gangs dig quakemire from roads, gardens. Orange, plastic, road cones, temp fencing, containers sprout on roads, barriers to dangerous road sections & unstable bldgs. Plastic DANGER tapes & signs proliferate. Huge 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 cops with yellow, Hi-Vis jackets, camo brown Burnham troops, black overall, navy guys, black overall, USAR / TF guys, orange Hi-Vis vested CD guys; Hi-Vis vested bldg inspectors / insurance guys to last a lifetime. 11 September 9.07am.

Christchurch City Council & CD are demolishing brick bldgs 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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