Rossall St / Holmwood Rd: Harcourts, white-plastic-taped; orange-plastic-road-cone-cordoned; blue-tarped-roof; new, wooden-pillars supporting awning. Flowers on Holmwood, new, wooden-pillars supporting awning. Green-tarped-roof.
12.09.10. Quake damaged Harcourts real estate bldg with temp wooden pillar, Rossall St / Holmwood Rd, state of emergency
12.09.10. Quake damaged Flowers On Holmwood with temp wooden pillars, Holmwood Rd / Rossall St, state of emergency. Flowers on Holmwood would be demolished post 22.02.11 quake & replaced by a temp, porta-cabin cafe for about a year, then rebuilt
Rossall St: shop-window, hand-written sign:
AS OF MONDAY
13th SEPTEMBER
WE WILL BE BACK
TO OUR ORIGINAL
TRADING HOURS
WE LOOK FORWARD TO
SEEING YOU THEN
Despite the State-of-Emergency & damaged-shops, some shopkeepers tried to resume business asap.
12.09.10. Quake sign, Rossall St, state of emergency
Rossall St: Cracked-brick garden-wall. Two-storey house, blue-tarped brick-chimney & roof.
12.09.10. Quake damaged Rossall St brick wall, soon demolished & rebuilt
12.09.10. Camellias. Blue tarp on a quake damaged roof, Rossall St, state of emergency
Manchester St: Many buildings, orange-plastic-road-coned; steel-mesh-fence-cordoned. USAR / TF graffiti on windows. Green-stickered, or yellow-stickered, or red-stickered. Some broken-windows. Some tarped-roofs. Many old brick-buildings or stone-buildings, cracked around windows & roofs, like parapets e.g. Maru Japanese Restaurant & Bar, Druids Friendly Society, SBS Bank, The Bead Shop, Coffee Stop, Carnivores, Le Plonk, Essence...
12.09.10. Manchester St / Gloucester St crossing, without cops, NZDF soldiers & Civil Defence, state of emergency. Most bldgs in the pic would be demolished post 2011 quakes
12.09.10. USAR / TF yellow graffiti, Maru Japanese Restaurant, Manchester St, state of emergency. The bldg would be demolished post 2011 quakes
12.09.10. USAR / TF yellow graffiti & green stickered door, Druids Friendly Society, Manchester St, state of emergency. The bldg would be demolished post 2011 quakes
12.09.10. GLASS HAZ: USAR / TF yellow graffiti on yellow stickered SBS Bank door, Manchester St, state of emergency. The bldg would be demolished post 2011 quakes
12.09.10. Steel mesh fence cordon. Ground Zero, part demolished, sanitized Westende Jewellers, Manchester St / Worcester St, state of emergency. Yellow diggers parked before ruin. Bldg completely demolished within 2 months
12.09.10. Part demolished, quake trashed Westende Jewellers & white plastic seat, Manchester St / Worcester St, state of emergency. Bldg completely demolished within 2 months
12.09.10. Steel mesh fence cordon. Part demolished, quake trashed Westende Jewellers, Manchester St / Worcester St, state of emergency. Yellow digger parked before ruin. Bldg completely demolished within 2 months
Westende Jewellers ghost, Manchester St / Worcester St, Ground-Zero: Nightly, TVNZ broadcast quake-news from the "dolls-house" business there for a week post-quake. Lurid, red-lights highlighted the battered building & newsman. But not all Christchurch buildings were so damaged.
Rockshop & other nearby buildings were unscathed. About 90% of Christchurch buildings were undamaged, huge areas undamaged. Despite NZ media-hype, Facebook friends & relatives overseas - SA, UK, USA, Canada - said they heard little or nothing about Christchurch quake on their news. Within two months Westende Jewellers would be demolished.
12.09.10. Steel mesh fence cordon. Southern Demolition digger resting on Sunday, quake trashed Westende Jewellers, Manchester St / Worcester St, state of emergency. Bldg completely demolished within 2 months
12.09.10. Close up, part demolished Westende Jewellers, Manchester St / Worcester St, state of emergency. Bldg completely demolished within 2 months
14.11.10. Steel mesh fence cordon. Changing Christchurch: 2 months post quake, Ground Zero post demolition, Westende Jewellers would be rebuilt, but CERA would soon demolish the brand new bldg Manchester St / Worcester St for E Frame parkland.
14.11.10. Steel mesh fence cordon. Two months post quake, Ground Zero post demolition, Westende Jewellers, Manchester St / Worcester St.
Manchester St: Some damaged-buildings were demolished quickly, like Ground-Zero, Westende Jewellers, some slowly, like Manchester Courts. Post-quake, empty demolition-sites evolved all over Christchurch, before intermittent rebuild began.
14.11.10. Steel mesh fence cordon behind a white / orange, plastic bollard cordon, Manchester St. Two months post quake, Ground Zero, S view, slow Manchester Courts demolition. Yellow crane & yellow digger parked by Manchester Courts. Most bdgs in the pic would be demolished post 2011 quakes. Left side of Manchester St would become CERA's Blueprint E Frame
12.09.10. Steel mesh fence cordon. Quake trashed Westende Jewellers, cleaned up for TV news, Worcester St, state of emergency
12.09.10. Steel mesh fence cordon. Quake trashed, Westende Jewellers, two photographers, Worcester St, state of emergency
12.09.10. Steel mesh fence cordon. Quake trashed, Westende Jewellers, Worcester St, state of emergency
12.09.10. Rubble by quake trashed, Westende Jewellers, steel mesh fence cordoned. Worcester St, state of emergency
12.09.10. Sunday rubberneckers, Manchester St / Worcester St, state of emergency. Steel mesh fence cordon within white, plastic tape & orange, plastic, road cone cordon. Backdrop: Christ Church Cathedral tower would topple in the 22.02.11 quake
12.09.10. Quake damaged, steel mesh fence cordoned Octagon Restaurant (Trinity Church) Manchester St / Worcester St, state of emergency. Background: Hotel Grand Chancellor would be trashed in the 22.02.11 quake & demolished. Octagon Restaurant tower would collapse in the 22.02.11 quake. Octagon Restaurant would eventually be restored
Manchester St / Worcester St: FOOTPATH CLOSED. Octagon Restaurant / Trinity Church: steel-mesh-fence-cordoned, USAR / TF graffiti on door. Despite steel-bands around the greystone-tower, greystones cracked, some Oamaru whitestones sheared off. Tower would soon be steel- braced.
12.09.10. Manchester St view, quake damaged Octagon Restaurant (Trinity Church), steel mesh fence cordoned, state of emergency. Octagon Restaurant would eventually be restored
12.09.10. FOOTPATH CLOSED. Steel mesh fence cordoned, quake damaged Octagon Restaurant (Trinity Church) Manchester St / Worcester St, state of emergency. Octagon tower would collapse in the 22.02.11 quake. Octagon Restaurant would eventually be restored
14.11.10. White / orange, plastic bollard cordon. Two months post quake, iron braced Octagon Restaurant (Trinity Church) Manchester St / Worcester St. Octagon tower & metal bracing would collapse in the 22.02.11 quake. Octagon Restaurant would eventually be restored
12.09.10. FALLING HAZ, USAR / TF graffiti on quake damaged door, Octagon Restaurant (Trinity Church) Manchester St / Worcester St, state of emergency
12.09.10. Quake damaged Octagon Restaurant tower, quake reinforcement, Worcester St, state of emergency. Despite quake reinforcement, Octagon Restaurant tower would collapse in the 22.02.11 quake. Octagon Restaurant would eventually be restored
12.09.10. Quake damaged Octagon Restaurant tower & inadequate quake reinforcement, Worcester St, state of emergency. Octagon Restaurant tower would collapse in the 22.02.11 quake. Octagon Restaurant would eventually be restored
12.09.10. Worcester St view, quake damaged Octagon Restaurant, state of emergency. Octagon Restaurant tower would collapse in the 22.02.11 quake. Octagon Restaurant would eventually be restored
Worcester St: Design & arts college ghost, yellow-stickered, USAR / TF graffiti on bronze-door, windows flung open by quake. Three- storey, Pills For Thrills, fire-razed, steel-mesh-fence-cordoned. The only building destroyed by fire in the quake. Mayor Parker & PM Key were there for a photo-op. 2023. Design & arts college, still abandoned.
12.09.10. GLASS HAZ, USAR / TF yellow graffiti & yellow sticker, design and arts college door, Worcester St, state of emergency
12.09.10. Quake opened windows, design and arts college, Worcester St, state of emergency
12.09.10. Steel mesh fence cordon. Quake fire destroyed bldg & Pills For Thrills, Worcester St, state of emergency. The bldg would be demolished
12.09.10. Pills For Thrills, fire blackened windows & fire escape, Worcester St, state of emergency. The bldg would be demolished
12.09.10. Steel mesh fence cordoned, Pills For Thrills, quake fire blackened bldg, Worcester St, state of emergency. The bldg would be demolished
12.09.10. Pills For Thrills, top storey burnt out windows, Worcester St, state of emergency. The bldg would be demolished
12.09.10. Pills For Thrills, middle storey burnt out windows, Worcester St, state of emergency. The bldg would be demolished
12.09.10. Pills For Thrills, burnt our fire escape right, Worcester St, state of emergency. The bldg would be demolished. Heritage Hotel / Government bldg left would survive the 2011 quakes
12.09.10. DANGER OVER HEAD falling stones hazard, Manchester St, state of emergency
Manchester St: DANGER OVERHEAD yellow, spray-painted on footpath. It was a crime for taggers to spray-paint graffiti, but it wasn't a crime during a State-of-Emergency for USAR / TF to spray-paint graffiti on windows, doors, walls, footpath.
12.09.10. Details, quake damaged bldgs despite quake reinforcements, after smashing together, Manchester St, state of emergency
12.09.10. Quake damaged bldgs, steel fence cordoned. Manchester St, state of emergency. Manchester Courts beyond left would be demolished
12.09.10. Quake broken glass window, Manchester St, state of emergency. The bldg would be demolished post 2011 quakes
12.09.10. Quake damaged The Bead Shop, Manchester St, state of emergency. The Bead shop would be demolished post 2011 quakes
Rockshop ghost: Red-stickered, close to Manchester Courts ghost. Yellow, USAR / TF graffiti on window. "Don't panic!! The guitars are fine" glass door-sign. Prior years, Jake & Luke bought music & instruments from Rockshop. Rockshop would be demolished. Relocated to Hornby.
12.09.10. The Rockshop guitars undamaged by the quake, Manchester St, state of emergency. The Rockshop would be demolished post 2011 quakes
12.09.10. USAR / TF graffiti on The Rockshop window, Manchester St, state of emergency. The Rockshop would be demolished post 2011 quakes
12.09.10. The Rockshop red stickered door, Manchester St, state of emergency. The Rockshop would be demolished post 2011 quakes
12.09.10. The Rockshop red stickered door & quake sign: "Don't Panic!! The guitars are fine." Manchester St, state of emergency. The Rockshop would be demolished post 2011 quakes
12.09.10. Undamaged guitars & music equipment, The Rockshop, Manchester St, state of emergency. The Rockshop would be demolished post 2011 quakes
12.09.10. Rubberneckers & quake broken window, Manchester St, state of emergency
12.09.10. USAR / TF graffiti & yellow sticker on Carnivores window, Manchester St, state of emergency
12.09.10. Steel fence cordoned Le Plonk, Manchester St, state of emergency
Manchester Courts ghost: Steel-mesh-fence-cordoned, closing Manchester St. Broken-windows. Old, seven-storey, brick & Oamaru-whitestone, would be demolished. X-cracks could be seen on brick-columns between broken-windows. During quake-years, 2010-2013, I would see many X-cracks, calling then XL-cracks, as the cracks zig-zagged following mortar-cracks in L-shaped steps.
12.09.10. Cyclists by steel mesh fence cordon viewing quake damaged Manchester Courts (soon demolished) Manchester St, state of emergency
12.09.10. Quake damaged windows & brickwork, Manchester Courts (soon demolished) Manchester St, state of emergency. See large X cracks on brickwork between broken windows
14.11.10. White / orange, plastic bollards, steel mesh fence cordon. Two months post quake view, Manchester Courts demolition, Manchester St, seen from Worcester St / Manchester St cordon. Yellow, crane truck & yellow digger parked by Manchester Courts
14.11.10. Two months post quake demolition, Manchester Courts, Manchester St. Yellow, crane truck & yellow digger parked by Manchester Courts
14.11.10. ROAD CLOSED. Two months post quake, steel mesh fence cordon detour around Manchester Courts demolition, Manchester St / Worcester St cordon. Most of the bldgs in the pic would be demolished post 2011 quakes
For more than two months post-quake, while Manchester Courts was demolished, undamaged-buildings in the forbidden demolition-cordon, like Rockshop, would lose business.
12.09.10. DANGER No entry: USAR / TF graffiti, Manchester St, state of emergency
12.09.10. DANGER No entry, Manchester St, state of emergency
12.09.10. Steel fence cordon. Carpark DANGER, Manchester St, state of emergency
12.09.10. Quake cracked parapet, Manchester St, state of emergency
12.09.10. Quake damaged roofs, Manchester St, state of emergency
12.09.10. Rubberneckers, Manchester St northbound view, state of emergency. Most of the bldgs in the pic would be demolished post 2011 quakes
Post-quake, rubberneckers had to beware plastic-tapes, wire-mesh-cordons, lurid USAR / TF graffiti, like yellow, spray-painted DANGER or DANGER NO ENTRY, then look up to find quake-damages on buildings. Rubberneckers wandered, twisting, nodding their heads.
I drove back to Burnside via Madras St & Barbadoes St, as Leah wanted to see CBD quake-damage before she went back teaching on Monday. Schools, varsities, techs were closed during State-of-Emergency week for building-inspections.
Gloucester St / Madras St: POLICE EMERGENCY Fallen-bricks in alley by white-plastic-taped, steel-mesh-fence-cordoned Securities House.
12.09.10. POLICE EMERGENCY. Steel mesh fence cordon. Fallen parapet bricks behind Securities House, Gloucester St / Madras St, state of emergency. Securities House would be demolished post 22.02.11 quake
Madras St / Oxford Tce: Oxford Tce Baptist Church ghost. Steel-mesh-fence-cordoned, white-marble, Neo-Classic-facade ruined: cracked-pediment, cracked-entablature, cracked-parapet. Ionic-capitals, white-marble-columns OK. The church would be wood-braced & steel- braced, then demolished, rebuilt modern style by 2017.
12.09.10. Quake damaged Oxford Tce Baptist Church, state of emergency. Baptist Church would be demolished post 22.02.11 quake & rebuilt by 2017
12.09.10. Quake damaged Oxford Tce Baptist Church entablature & pediment, state of emergency. Baptist Church would be demolished post 22.02.11 quake & rebuilt by 2017
12.09.10. Detail of quake damaged pediment & entablature, Oxford Tce Baptist Church, state of emergency. Baptist Church would be demolished post 22.02.11 quake & rebuilt by 2017
12.09.10. Quake damaged cnr Oxford Tce Baptist Church, state of emergency. Baptist Church would be demolished post 22.02.11 quake & rebuilt by 2017
14.11.10. Steel mesh fence cordon. Two months post quake, iron braced, Oxford Tce Baptist Church. Baptist Church would be demolished post 22.02.11 quake & rebuilt by 2017
14.11.10. Two months post quake, iron braced entablature & pediment, Oxford Tce Baptist Church. Baptist Church would be demolished post 22.02.11 quake & rebuilt by 2017
Barbadoes St / Edgeware Rd: Simply Catering ghost, part-demolished, red spray-painted graffiti on brick-wall: GONE BUT NOT OUT... WE'LL BE BACK.
12.09.10. Demolished Simply Catering, GONE BUT NOT OUT, Barbadoes St / Edgeware Rd state of emergency
12.09.10. Demolished Simply Catering, WE'LL BE BACK, Barbadoes St / Edgeware Rd state of emergency
12.09.10. Demolished Simply Catering, COFFEE & BAGELS sign, Barbadoes St / Edgeware Rd quake state of emergency
Manchester St again: Leah saw ghosts I'd seen earlier that afternoon. Rubberneckers had increased.
12.09.10. Yellow stickered Manchester St door, state of emergency. The bldg would be demolished post 2011 quakes.
12.09.10. GLASS HAZ, SBS Bank, Manchester St, state of emergency. The bldg would be demolished post 2011 quakes
12.09.10. Westende Jewellers, Ground Zero. Steel mesh fence cordon. Yellow digger. Sanitized demolition site. TVNZ news site, state of emergency, Manchester St / Worcester St. Westende Jewellers would be demolished within 2 months
12.09.10. Red stickered, Bead Shop, Manchester St, state of emergency. The bldg would be demolished
12.09.10. Steel mesh fence cordon left. Rubberneckers, Manchester St, N view, state of emergency. Except Octagon Restaurant (Trinity Church) mid left, most bldgs in the pic would be demolished post 2011 quakes
12.09.10. Fire engine. Steel mesh fence cordon. Quake razed, Pills For Thrills, Worcester St, state of emergency. The bldg would be demolished
12.09.10. Steel mesh fence cordon. Fire Rescue, quake damaged Octagon Restaurant (Trinity Church) Worcester St, state of emergency
12.09.10. Steel mesh fence cordoned, design & arts college, Worcester St, state of emergency
12.09.10. Quake damaged chair, French restaurant, Worcester St, state of emergency
12.09.10. Cathedral Junction, Worcester St, state of emergency. Cathedral Junction would survive the 2011 quakes
Days before, Cathedral Junction was crawling with State-of-Emergency cops & NZDF soldiers. I hadn't seen a cop or soldier in the CBD all Sunday afternoon. Risible how cops & soldiers took Sunday afternoon off during the State-of-Emergency, inviting looting!
Cathedral Sq: Cracked, grey paving-stones. Base Backpackers ghost, steel-mesh-fence-cordoned. Saints & Sinners bar closed.
12.09.10. Quake cracked paving stone, Cathedral Sq, state of emergency
12.09.10. Steel mesh fence cordoned, quake damaged, Base Backpackers, Cathedral Sq, state of emergency. All bldgs in the pic would be demolished post 2011 quakes
12.09.10. Steel mesh fence cordon. Base Backpackers quake sign, Cathedral Sq, state of emergency. Base Backpackers would be demolished post 2011 quakes
12.09.10. Saints & Sinners bar closed, Cathedral Sq, state of emergency. The bar would be demolished post 2011 quakes
Steel-mesh-fence-cordon sign:
DEAR GUEST
BASE BACKPACKERS
DAMAGED BECAUSE OF THE
EARTHQUAKE
PLEASE EMAIL
... if you would
like to arrange a refund
If you have a booking at Base tonight
see The Camelot Hotel and they will
sort you out
*Trekked Rossall St, Manchester St, Worcester St, Gloucester St, Oxford Tce, Barbadoes St, Cathedral Sq. 86 snaps.
Facebook:
@Janet. Scary week, dazed riding aftershocks. Carrying on.
Coping. I went out daily, coolpixing as much damage & huge intact areas as possible, before damage gets demolished, or fixed. Leah works & socializes, Jake & Luke socialize. Schools starting next week, State-of-Emergency hopefully over. Many clean-ups, demolitions, repairs. Citizens shopping, businesses relocating if damaged, business-as-usual if possible, polite, friendly, good road-manners for a change. Flashes of grief, tears, anger responses to shock & crisis. 12 September 7.59am.
Aftershock cat monitor: Our Korean friend says she knows when an aftershock is coming, as her cat gets spooked seconds before every aftershock. As I'm deaf, I found our cat Flair a good aftershock monitor. When we were in the same room with an aftershock imminent, curled up asleep Flair would wake, raise her head, open her eyes, pull her ears back, a sign an aftershock was coming. Her ears stayed back until aftershock shaking & rumbling was over, then she settled again. 12 September 8.02am.
@Bruce. We survived. Scruffy, dirty from my muddy-walks.
@Alan. High on adrenalin for eight days. Heard that UK telly was slack. Christchurch got a support-message from the queen. 12 September 10.10am.
@Craig. Although everyone was shaken in the quake & many aftershocks, there are vast areas of Christchurch undamaged by the quake, some old buildings stood up OK. Most modern, wooden-buildings survived well, thankfully most of Christchurch are the latter now. Roof-tiles, roof-slates, brick-chimneys thrown off all over Christchurch. Braced-chimneys did OK. i.e. Quake-proof building-methods enabled wooden-buildings to survive. Modern high-rises looked OK too. Building-inspectors still checking buildings.
Soggy-suburbs near rivers, streams, swamps were badly hit by liquefaction mud mounded from underground, pushed up by seismic-waves & ground-water. [Slumping & hollowing too, due to compaction of soil particles, especially by riversides, causing lateral-spreading & sinkholes]. Saw contractors pumping water out of a Fifield Tce sinkhole by Heathcote River, before they could work on water-pipes, dangerous work after rains & liquefaction.
Damage was on the plains where there's underground-water, i.e. water & quakes, a destructive combo. Epicentre near Darfield. No offshore- quake, so no tsunami-danger. Lucky the quake was early morning, 4.35am, so few were at work, socializing, at school...
Generally old, brick buildings & stone-buildings did badly, shaken to bits, especially tops of buildings: parapets, gables, awnings. Any building, even new ones, did badly by rivers, streams, swampy ground, enabling liquefaction to cause mud-damage & crack-damage. Yet I drove through a new suburb Aidanfield on boggy-ground yesterday, seeing no damage. Silty-soil contributes to liquefaction, shingle less so.
Huge areas of Christchurch are built on floodplain-silt. After rains, saturated-silt was liquefactioned by shaking. NW suburbs like Burnside are built on shingle, hence less liquefaction. 13 September 3.34pm.
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