Added to shrinking CBD-cordon snaps, I snapped suburban damages at Mona Vale, Riccarton, Avonside.
Mona Vale restaurant: Roof-damage. Yellow crane-truck on driveway.
Kilmarnock St: Concrete-block-wall collapsed onto footpath.
Riccarton Rd near Riccarton Mall: Several old, brick-shops, plastic, POLICE tape-cordoned due to collapsed brick-parapets. The old, brick-buildings would be demolished overnight.
08.09.10.Yellow crane truck, quake damaged Mona Vale restaurant roof, off Fendalton Rd, state of emergency. Post 2011 quakes, Mona Vale would be restored
08.09.10. Orange, Hi-Vis vested, international insurance assessor, Bush Inn mall, Riccarton Rd, checking quake claims, state of emergency
08.09.10. Quake collapsed, concrete, garden wall, Kilmarnock St, state of emergency
08.09.10. Quake damaged 90 Riccarton Rd, soon demolished, state of emergency
08.09.10. Quake damaged Cartridge World / Advanced Bldgs estd 1923, Riccarton Rd, soon demolished, state of emergency
08.09.10. Quake damaged bldg For Sale, next to Advanced Bldgs estd 1923, Riccarton Rd, soon demolished, state of emergency
Next day, when I trekked past those demolished Riccarton Rd sites, just rubble heaps. Authorities like CD & USAR / TF used the State-of- Emergency to demolish those buildings for public safety. Never mind owner's permission, or even telling them. (The Star).
Heritage-hailers wanted to preserve old, Victorian heritage-buildings, but weren't prepared to pay. Heritage-hailers wanted owners of heritage- buildings to pay the damage bill, despite it being cheaper to demolish & replace with a new-building. e.g. Ascot TV business, an old, damaged, brick-building, Colombo St, Sydenham: Owner's insurance covered the cost of demolition & rebuild, but not restoring the new-building to look "old" Victorian again. The owner felt Council should pay the extra, if they wanted to retain his heritage-building in Sydenham (The Press).
Cranmer Sq: Brick-gables fallen off Cranmer Centre, plastic POLICE taped; steel-mesh-fence-cordoned. Brick-rubble on ground below the three-storey building.
08.09.10. Wedding photos, quake damaged Cranmer Centre, Cranmer Sq, state of emergency. Cranmer Centre would be demolished post 22.02.11 quake
08.09.10. Quake damaged roof, Cranmer Centre, Montreal St, state of emergency. Metal quake proofing of gables useless. Tarp covered & wood braced within a week. Cranmer Centre would be demolished post 22.02.11 quake
08.09.10. Steel mesh fence cordon. Quake damaged roof, Cranmer Centre, Montreal St, state of emergency. Metal quake proofing of gables useless. Tarp covered & wood braced within a week. Cranmer Centre would be demolished post 22.02.11 quake
Gloucester St / Montreal St: Many orange, Hi-Vis vested & orange, Hi-Vis jacketed CD blokes wandering the foyer of Christchurch Art Gallery, CD HQ. Public banned.
08.09.10. Orange, Hi-Vis jacketed, Civil Defence volunteers entering Christchurch Art Gallery / Civil Defence HQ, Gloucester St entrance, state of emergency
08.09.10. Closed doors, public banned, Christchurch Art Gallery / Civil Defence HQ, Montreal St doors, state of emergency
08.09.10. Closed doors, public banned, Christchurch Art Gallery / Civil Defence HQ, Montreal St doors, state of emergency
08.09.10. Grey District Civil Defence car parked by Christchurch Art Gallery / Civil Defence HQ, Worcester Blvd, state of emergency
08.09.10. Returned Services Association door, green stickered, Armagh St, state of emergency. All Armagh St doors I passed were green stickered
It seemed building-inspectors were completing inspections in CBD-cordons first, then fanning out into suburbs. Most buildings I saw on Armagh St were green-stickered.
08.09.10. Quake shattered windows, Colombo St, state of emergency. Broken windows were soon boarded up
Victoria Sq: All statues OK, including the Boer War, Queen Victoria statue.
08.09.10. NZDF soldiers going to state of emergency cordon duty, Cambridge Tce / Gloucester St, Avon River willows leafing in spring
Compared to two days ago, the State-of-Emergency, CBD-cordon had shrunk around Manchester St, allowing public into Cathedral Sq, some of Cathedral Sq steel-mesh-fence-cordoned near public toilets, Southern Encounter building & the Visitors Centre.
The shrunken-cordon I trekked from Cathedral Sq was a rectangle along Colombo St, turning left into St Asaph St, turning left into Madras St crossing Latimer Sq, turning left into Gloucester St back to Colombo St, Manchester St in the middle, parallel to Colombo St & Madras St.
Overcast, colder day since the sunny day I'd first trekked the bigger-cordon two days ago: friendly NZDF soldiers, chatty cops. Now some cops were overbearing, soldiers more watchful, less friendly. Less inclined to be snapped. In their shrunken CBD-cordon, cops & NZDF soldiers were under public-scrutiny.
From Cathedral Sq, I trekked down Colombo St, cordon on my left, thinking Christchurch mayor Bob Parker had already praised Cantabrians as being "resilient." CBD-cordon now was strengthened with steel-mesh-fencing, instead of just POLICE plastic-tape.
Colombo St: Cops, NZDF soldiers guarded each intersection cordon-fence. Citizens banned going inside CBD-cordon.
The Crossing, Colombo St: Steel-mesh-cordon guarded by three yellow, Hi-Vis jacketed cops, four NZDF soldiers, one olive military- vehicle. Citizens banned. I would give Deb Donnell permission to publish my snap in her two books Cafe Reflections & Responders, Keswin Publishing. Deb Donnell's family shop was in the vicinity.
08.09.10. 3 yellow, Hi-Vis jacketed cops, 4 NZDF soldiers, 1 olive military vehicle, High St / Colombo St crossing, State of Emergency, steel mesh fence cordon. Deb Donnell used this pic in her 2 quake books Cafe Reflections & Responders, Keswin Publishing. Post 2011 quakes, most of the bldgs in the pic would be demolished
08.09.10. Cop disliking public scrutiny, Cashel St / Colombo St, The Crossing, state of emergency cordon. Post 2011 quakes, the bldg would be demolished
When I snapped The Crossing, a cop ordered: "I don't want you photographing me! You can only photograph buildings!" That was after he'd walked up to my raised camera, trying to intimidate me. What made him so special during the State-of-Emergency, after many snaps were already taken of cops & military for days? Media was full of cop-snaps during the State-of-Emergency.
Colombo St / Lichfield St: POLICE plastic-taped, steel-mesh-cordon, guarded by one yellow, Hi-Vis jacketed cop, four NZDF soldiers, one cop-car. Citizens banned.
08.09.10. Yellow, Hi-Vis jacketed cop & NZDF soldiers, Lichfield St / Colombo St crossing, by The Frontrunner, state of emergency cordon
08.09.10. Yellow, Hi-Vis jacketed cop & NZDF soldiers, Lichfield St / Colombo St crossing, by Sushiland (red awning) state of emergency cordon. Post 2011 quakes, most of the bldgs in the pic would be demolished
08.09.10. Lichfield St / Colombo St crossing, yellow, Hi-Vis jacketed cop & NZDF soldiers below Sushiland, state of emergency cordon. Post 2011 quakes, most of the bldgs in the pic would be demolished
Colombo St / Tuam St: POLICE plastic-taped, steel-mesh-cordon, guarded by three NZDF soldiers, one cop-car. Citizens banned.
08.09.10. Cop car & NZDF soldiers, Tuam St / Colombo St, by Bean Bags & Beyond, state of emergency cordon. Bean Bags & beyond would be demolished post 22.02.11 quake
08.09.10. Quake damaged R&R Sport bldg, Tuam St / Colombo St, state of emergency cordon. A month later R&R quake damaged wall was boarded up. R&R Sport would be demolished post 22.02.11 quake
Colombo St / St Asaph St: Orange-plastic-road-cones, steel-mesh-fence-cordon. Red-stickered, brick, two-storey, Theme Basics debris, from fallen brick-parapets & footpath-awnings, were already removed from the footpath. No cops nor NZDF soldiers. Citizens banned.
08.09.10. Quake damaged Theme Basics, St Asaph St / Manchester St, state of emergency cordon. A month later the bldg was still smashed with no repairs or demolition. 5 months post quake, bldg still fence cordoned, no repairs. Theme Basics would be demolished post 13.06.11 quake
08.09.10. Quake damaged Theme Basics, St Asaph St / Manchester St, State of Emergency cordon. A month later the red stickered bldg was still smashed with no repairs or demolition. 5 months post quake, bldg still fence cordoned, no repairs. Theme Basics would be demolished post 13.06.11 quake. Most other bldgs in the pic would be demolished too
St Asaph St / Manchester St: Orange-plastic-road-cones, steel-mesh-fence-cordon guarded by one cop, two NZDF soldiers. Citizens banned. Brick-wall crushed-car down Manchester St by Struthers Ln. Two yellow, Hi-Vis jacketed cops hovering. Citizens banned.
08.09.10. Rubbernecker & cop, St Asaph St / Manchester St, by the drawing room, undamaged, state of emergency cordon
08.09.10. Cop & NZDF soldiers by the drawing room, undamaged, St Asaph St / Manchester St, state of emergency cordon
08.09.10. St Asaph St, state of emergency cordon view, quake damage down Manchester St. Quake crushed car by Struthers Ln. Post 2011 quakes, all bldgs in the pic would be demolished
08.09.10. Quake damaged bldg, fallen parapet, despite quake reinforcement, St Asaph St, state of emergency cordon. Post 2011 quakes, the bldg would be demolished
Damages: brick-debris, concrete-debris, rubble-heaps on roads, footpaths, carparks, came from toppled-chimneys, toppled-gables, toppled-parapets; collapsed footpath-awnings; wall-cracks, wholly or partially collapsed-walls.
St Asaph St: A rubbernecker looking for souvenirs offered me a brick. I declined. The rubbernecker lay on rubble, so his girlfriend could take a "death" pic. Later on, I found a chunk of roof-lead, my souvenir, on Worcester St Bridge. Souvenirs were abundant from debris.
No fatalities during 4 September 2010, Darfield Quake, gave a false sense-of-security in unstable buildings. Confused inspection-stickering amplified that false sense-of-security: I saw a yellow-sticker & a green-sticker on one St Asaph St window. Repeated Council- inspections by different inspectors caused confusion, a green-sticker signified entry OK, a yellow-sticker signified danger! On many buildings, I saw no stickers at all.
08.09.10. Confused bldg inspectors' green AND yellow inspection stickers on the same bldg, St Asaph St, state of emergency cordon
St Asaph St / High St: Steel-mesh-fence-cordon guarded by one yellow, Hi-Vis jacketed cop, two NZDF soldiers, one cop-car. Citizens banned.
08.09.10. Cop inside, NZDF soldiers outside High St, state of emergency cordon, a more substantial, fenced cordon, compared to the taped, plastic barrier High St / St Asaph St / Madras St cordon two days prior. CPIT bldg on High St survived the 2010-2013 quakes. Son Luke had attended music shows there
08.09.10. Business closed, quake damaged, red stickered Nurse Maude heritage bldg, Madras St, state of emergency cordon. Aftershocks caused more damage. Nurse Maude would be demolished post 22.02.11 quake
Madras St: Nurse Maude heritage-building, brick-parapet fallen from side-wall. It would cost just as much to reinforce & repair Nurse Maude as to demolish & rebuild. Easy choice for Heritage-hailers, who didn't pay, not easy for the owner who paid. He lost business during the time the building was red-stickered / being repaired / demolished & while Council, Heritage-hailers & NZ National government dithered about heritage-buildings. Multiply that 1 000s of times & business-confidence imploded during quake-aftermath, people negatively affected by loss of business premises; searches for safer / new business premises; stock, equipment losses; relocation; client, customer losses; working from home, back of trucks, Sunday markets...
Three months post Darfield Quake, business rally, Town Hall: "A cash injection of up to $100 million is needed to keep earthquake affected businesses afloat a Christchurch retailer says." (The Press 30.11.10).
08.09.10. Shipping container before quake damaged Nurse Maude bldg, Madras St, in case aftershocks further damaged the bldg, state of emergency cordon. Aftershocks caused more damage. Nurse Maude would be demolished post 22.02.11 quake
08.09.10. Quake damaged Southern Blues Bar, Madras St, state of emergency cordon. Red stickered, Southern Blues Bar would be demolished post 22.02.11 quake
Madras St / Tuam St: Steel-mesh-fence-cordon, guarded by two yellow, Hi-Vis jacketed cops, two NZDF soldiers, one cop-car. Citizens banned.
Madras St: Edward Gibbon: brick-rubble on footpath. Factory Outlet facade: yellow-plastic-tape-cordoned; shipping-containers protected pedestrians & vehicle traffic. Red-stickered building: Danger No Entry! FOX building: yellow-plastic-taped; orange-plastic-road-cone-cordoned.
08.09.10. Yellow, Hi-Vis jacketed cops & NZDF soldiers, Tuam St / Madras St, state of emergency cordon. Edward Gibbon bldg was trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished
08.09.10. Quake damaged Edward Gibbon bldg, Madras St, state of emergency cordon. Edward Gibbon bldg was trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished
08.09.10. Quake damaged FACTORY OUTLET bldg, Madras St, with shipping containers in front, state of emergency cordon. The bldg would be demolished post 22.02.11 quake
08.09.10. Business closed, quake damaged red stickered FACTORY OUTLET bldg, Madras St, state of emergency cordon. The bldg would be demolished post 22.02.11 quake
08.09.10. Quake damaged FOX bldg, Madras St, state of emergency cordon. Post 2011 quakes, most bldgs in the pic would be demolished, incl FOX
08.09.10. Roof damaged FOX bldg, Madras St, state of emergency cordon. Post 2011 quakes, FOX would be demolished
Madras St / Bedford Row: Steel-mesh-fence-cordon, guarded by four NZDF soldiers. Stable building: brick-rubble fallen from parapet on footpath, more than two days ago. Citizens banned.
08.09.10. Aftershock damage, old, brick stable, Madras St. Two days before, the road was clear of debris. State of emergency, steel mesh fence cordon. The stable would be demolished post 22.02.11 quake. 2018. Concrete, tilt slab flats were built on site
08.09.10. Bedford Row / Madras St crawling with NZDF soldiers, state of emergency cordon. A month later Bedford Row by Manchester St was still fence cordoned. IR bldg right survived the quakes. Post 2011 quakes, most bldgs in the pic would be demolished
Madras St / Cashel St: St Pauls Trinity Pacific Presbyterian Church: scaffolded; Police white-plastic-tape-cordoned. Olive military- vehicle drove across the intersection. Diagonally opposite corner, CTV multi-storey: Would pancake-collapse, 22 February 2011 quake, killing 115 people.
08.09.10. Olive military vehicle, Madras St / Cashel St, state of emergency cordon. St Paul's Trinity Pacific Presbyterian Church was scaffolded for repairs, trashed by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished. Pic was taken from the CTV bldg cnr, where the CTV bldg collapsed in the 22.02.11 quake, killing 115 people
Latimer Sq / Hereford St: POLICE white-plastic-taped; orange-plastic-road-coned; steel-mesh-fence-cordon, 1 olive military-vehicle. No cops nor NZDF soldiers. Citizens banned.
08.09.10. Olive military vehicle, Hereford St, steel mesh fence cordon, Latimer Sq. Two days before, the state of emergency cordon was plastic tape. Hotel Grand Chancellor, was badly damaged by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished. Post 2011 quakes, most bldgs in the pic would be demolished
Latimer Sq / Worcester St: POLICE white-plastic-tape-cordon, guarded by one yellow, Hi-Vis jacketed cop, four NZDF soldiers, one cop-car. Citizens banned.
08.09.10. Cops & NZDF soldiers, Worcester St / Latimer Sq, state of emergency cordon. Newstalk ZB would be imploded, Aug 2012, enabling NZ National govt's, Blueprint E Frame. Post 2011 quakes, most bldgs in the pic would be demolished
Gloucester St / Manchester St: POLICE white-plastic-tape; orange-plastic-road-cone-cordon, guarded by one cop car, two NZDF soldiers. Citizens banned.
Gloucester St: Orion electricity generator truck parked opposite TVNZ building.
08.09.10. Orion electricity generator truck opp TVNZ bldg, Gloucester St, state of emergency, steel mesh fence cordon
08.09.10. Cop car & NZDF soldiers, Gloucester St / Manchester St crossing, state of emergency cordon. Hotel Grand Chancellor behind, was badly damaged by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished. Post 2011 quake, most bldgs in the pic would be demolished
Durham St Nth / Chester St West: Damaged grey-stone, Methodist Church, steel-mesh-fence-cordoned. Methodist Church would collapse in the 22 February 2011 quake, killing three people. Methodist Church would be domolished, rebuilt.
Peterborough St / Park Tce: Weston House, red-plastic-tape-cordoned, blue-tarped roof, two brick-chimneys kaput, brick-rubble on footpath.
08.09.10. Quake damaged Methodist Church, despite quake reinforcement, Chester St West / Durham St Nth, state of emergency. Aftershocks caused more damage. The Methodist Church would collapse in the 22.02.11 Killer Quake, killing 3 people. The Methodist Church would be demolished & rebuilt
08.09.10. Quake damaged Methodist Church side wall, despite quake reinforcement, Chester St West / Durham St Nth, state of emergency. The Methodist Church would collapsed in the 22.02.11 quake, killing 3 people. The Methodist Church would be demolished & rebuilt
08.09.10. Quake damaged, The Weston House, Peterborough St / Park Tce, state of emergency. The Weston House would be demolished post 13.06.11 quake
Salisbury St: Brick-house: bricks peeled off walls & parapets, brick-rubble in garden.
08.09.10. Quake damaged bldg, Salisbury St, outer brick wall collapsed, state of emergency. Many old brick houses had collapsed outer brick walls
08.09.10. Quake damaged bldg, Salisbury St, state of emergency
08.09.10. Quake debris, Salisbury St, state of emergency
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08.09.10. Quake damaged, brick parapet, Salisbury St, state of emergency. A month later the quake damaged Salisbury St house had blue & grey plastic tarps covering the damaged wall, with old bricks neatly stacked beside the wall, awaiting repairs.
Victoria St: Strategy building: white-plastic-tape-cordoned; broken window-glass, white-taped. Caxton Press: yellow USAR / TF graffiti on window; white-plastic-tape-cordoned. Gable brick-rubble in carpark. Office-furniture on footpath.
08.09.10. Quake broken windows taped, Strategy bldg, Montreal St / Victoria St / Salisbury St intersection, state of emergency. A month later the windows were scaffolded & being re-glazed. Strategy bldg would be demolished post 22.02.11 quake
Victoria St: Away from the CBD-cordon, late afternoon shortage of cops, NZDF soldiers, CD. Only plastic-tapes; orange-plastic-road-cones; steel-mesh-fence-cordons. Away from CBD military-harassment, I got undisturbed snaps of quaked-buildings in Victoria St & Salisbury St before demolition, sans cops, NZDF soldiers, CD. Another old two-storey: cracked-walls, loose electric-wiring outside, yellow, USAR / TF graffiti on window. Upper brick-wall peeled off another two-storey, opp Knox Presbyterian Church. Brick-rubble on footpath, white-plastic-tape- cordoned.
08.09.10. Quake damaged, windows boarded, The Caxton Press (cnr section later demolished) Victoria St, state of emergency
08.09.10. Quake damaged, brick gable, The Caxton Press (this cnr later demolished) Victoria St, state of emergency
08.09.10. Furniture on Victoria St pavement, The Caxton Press, state of emergency.
Besides damaged-roads & damaged-buildings & CBD crawling with NZDF soldiers, cops, CD, building-inspectors, rubberneckers, there were many unusual sights during the State-of-Emergency: many trucks & cranes in the CBD; workmen suspended in crane-boxes high above buildings; workmen on scaffolding & rooftops; workmen in road-holes; roofs & chimneys bandaged with plastic-tarps; POLICE plastic-tape everywhere, across roads, doors, buildings; steel-mesh-fence-cordons everywhere; shipping-containers before buildings to stop falling debris...
Red, yellow, green inspection-stickers on doors; yellow, red, orange, green, pink USAR / TF spray-painted graffiti on doors, walls, footpaths, roads; demolition-diggers smashing buildings; wooden-boarding on buildings; wood-bracing & steel-bracing on garden-walls & building-walls stopping collapse; furniture on footpaths for relocation.
Victoria St cafe owner sat staring from a footpath table, no customers. Others stared from windows. Others just stood, staring.
08.09.10. Quake damaged bldg (soon demolished) Victoria St, state of emergency
08.09.10. Quake cracked wall, loose electric wiring, Victoria St, state of emergency. Bldg would soon be demolished.
08.09.10. Quake damaged bldg (soon demolished) Victoria St, state of emergency
08.09.10. Quake damaged bldg (soon demolished) Victoria St, state of emergency
08.09.10. Victoria St, orange, plastic, road coned & DANGER taped by yellow, Hi Vis vested workmen, quake state of emergency
08.09.10. Face at a Victoria St window, watching workmen, quake state of emergency
08.09.10. Quake damaged bldg (soon demolished) opp Knox Presbyterian Church, Victoria St, state of emergency
08.09.10. Close up, quake damaged bldg (soon demolished) opp Knox Presbyterian Church, Victoria St, state of emergency
Victoria St / Salisbury St: Carlton Massage & Escorts. Vaughan Antiques: Brick parapets, side-walls peeled off brick, two-storey building, red-plastic-tape; steel-mesh-fence-cordoned. Brick-rubble on footpath. Cheesemongers relocated. A post-quake carpark would replace the demolished building.
Salisbury St: Four brick-buildings: white-plastic-tape-cordoned, chimney gone, parapets peeled off, brick-rubble on footpath / driveway. Workman on a scissor-lift removed bricks from the broken-chimney.
08.09.10. Quake damaged, Carlton Massage & Vaughan Antiques (soon demolished) Salisbury St / Victoria St, state of emergency
08.09.10. Quake damaged, brick wall & chimney, Vaughan Antiques (soon demolished) Salisbury St / Victoria St, state of emergency
08.09.10. Quake damaged Vaughan Antiques (soon demolished) Salisbury St, state of emergency
08.09.10. Cheesemongers, Salisbury St, state of emergency, had to relocate & lose trade, due to quake damaged Carlton Massage parlour next door, both soon demolished
08.09.10. Quake damaged bldgs (soon demolished) steel mesh fence cordoned, Victoria St / Salisbury St, state of emergency
08.09.10. Curtains blowing inside quake damaged bldg, despite closed windows, parapets, side walls, roof gone (soon demolished) Victoria St / Salisbury St, state of emergency
08.09.10. Quake damaged bldgs (soon demolished) steel mesh fence cordoned, Victoria St / Salisbury St, state of emergency
08.09.10. Quake damaged bldg, Salisbury St, state of emergency
08.09.10. Workman demolishing a quake damaged chimney, Salisbury St, state of emergency. A month later the chimney wall was boarded up
Montreal St / Kilmore St: Cranmer Court, steel-mesh-fence-cordoned, greystone rubble, stone-chimneys on footpath. Octagon gables, nylon- strapped against aftershocks.
08.09.10. Quake damaged, stone, Cranmer Court, Montreal St, state of emergency. Badly damaged by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake, Cranmer Court would be demolished after protests
08.09.10. Snapped off stone gable, despite quake reinforcement, Cranmer Court, steel mesh fence cordoned, Montreal St, state of emergency. Cranmer Court would be badly damaged by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished
08.09.10. Quake toppled chimneys, Cranmer Court, Montreal St, state of emergency. Cranmer Court would be badly damaged by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished
08.09.10. Quake damaged, stone, Cranmer Court, Montreal St / Kilmore St, state of emergency, octagon gables, nylon strapped against aftershocks. When I drove past 3 wks later, birds flew in & out of the roof & broken gables. Cranmer Court would be badly damaged by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished
08.09.10. Quake damaged, stone, Cranmer Court, Kilmore St, state of emergency. Cranmer Court would be badly damaged by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished
08.09.10. Quake damaged, stone, Cranmer Court, Kilmore St, state of emergency, stone rubble on pavement. Cranmer Court would be badly damaged by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished
08.09.10. Quake toppled chimney, Cranmer Court, Kilmore St, state of emergency. Cranmer Court would be badly damaged by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished
08.09.10. Quake damaged Pretty Things (soon demolished) Colombo St, state of emergency
08.09.10. Quake damaged bldg (soon demolished) Colombo St, state of emergency
08.09.10. Quake damaged bldgs (soon demolished) Colombo St, state of emergency
08.09.10. Quake damaged bldg & toilet (soon demolished) Colombo St, state of emergency
Colombo St: Red-stickered, City Mower. Pretty Things: Two brick, two-storey buildings, side-walls, parapets peeled off. White-plastic- tape-cordoned. Brick-rubble on footpath / carpark. An Asian couple, parked in their Mini, sat laughing hysterically at the first-floor, exposed toilet in the trashed "dolls house" above them. CD workers stood nearby in orange, Hi Vis vests, discussing the destroyed building. During quake-years, 2010-13, I would see many "dolls house" buildings, walls peeled off, room contents exposed.
08.09.10. Red crane truck. Quake damaged chimney, Colombo St, state of emergency. This old, wooden, turreted house would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished. The wooden turret would stay on site for many years
Avonside Dr / Woodham Rd / Linwood Ave crossing: Damaged by liquefaction, burst water-pipes. The crossing would stay hazardous for several weeks during aftershocks, due to liquefaction slumping, cracks in the roads, traffic island, footpaths. Post 2011 quakes, most of Avonside Dr & River Rd would be red-zoned by NZ National government / CERA.
08.09.10. Broken & repaired water pipes due to liquefaction damage, Avonside Dr / Woodham Rd, state of emergency
08.09.10. Liquefaction damaged Avon River bank & Avonside Dr / Woodham Rd, state of emergency
08.09.10. Quake damaged iron & concrete drain, Avonside Dr, state of emergency
08.09.10. Quake damaged Avonside Dr cnr, state of emergency
08.09.10. Water pumping onto road due to liquefaction damage, Avonside Dr / Woodham Rd, state of emergency
Avonside Dr, nearby Avonside roads: Footpaths cracked, buckled. Cracked, buckled, concrete-curbs, horizontally pulled from the roadside. Cracked-tarseal, damaged by quakemire on roads near Avon River: water, silt, quake, bad combination. Student gangs had shovelled silt into piles along roadsides for trucking away. Steel manhole casings / lids were raised above the road surface by quakes.
Many houses were without sewage-connection for months, having to use portaloos. Avon River & Heathcote River were polluted with sewage for months, WARNING threat-signs nailed to trees & wooden-posts along riverbanks. Roadside concrete-drains were damaged, power-poles tilted, some base-supported by big concrete-blocks.
Huge cracks on Avon Riverbanks, due to lateral-spreading. On one section of Avonside Dr, orange, Hi-Vis vested workmen fixed underground- cables. Medway St Footbridge between Avonside Dr & River Rd was twisted by the quake, white-plastic-tape; red-plastic-road-cone-cordoned. NO GO yellow, spray-painted on tarseal-footpath.
08.09.10. WARNING CONTAMINATED WATER sign about sewage pollution in Avon River due to quake, Avonside Dr, state of emergency
Whitebait season: West Coast had a bad season. Aucklanders & Wellingtonians feared being sold Christchurch polluted whitebait at restaurants. They'd scoffed polluted whitebait for years, as Canterbury rivers were full of shit: Waimakariri River, Selwyn River, Kaiapoi River, Heathcote River, Avon River, Kaituna River... I wouldn't fish or swim in any of those rivers. On my Canterbury hill-walks, I'd seen stock-dung in catchments.
08.09.10. Quake damaged Avon River bank & Avonside Dr, state of emergency. River bank slumping due to lateral spreading
08.09.10. Liquefaction damaged Avonside Dr, state of emergency
08.09.10. Liquefaction damaged drain, pavement & garden wall, Avonside Dr, state of emergency
08.09.10. Avonside Dr view, liquefaction cracked River Road & Avon River bank slumping, state of emergency
08.09.10. Quake damaged Avonside Dr, state of emergency
08.09.10. NO GO yellow spray-painted on pavement by quake twisted Medway St Footbridge over Avon River, between River Rd & Avonside Dr, state of emergency. In 2013 Medway St Footbridge would be dismantled for storage at Ferrymead. Oct 2018. Bits of Medway St Footbridge would be reinstalled on Avonside Dr as a quake memorial.
08.09.10. Quake twisted Medway St Footbridge, between River Rd & Avonside Dr, state of emergency
08.09.10. Liquefaction damaged Avonside Dr / Robson Ave, state of emergency. Concrete block supports tilted power pole
08.09.10. Liquefaction silt & damage, Robson Ave / Avonside Dr, state of emergency
08.09.10. Liquefaction damaged Robson Ave, silt graded away. Concrete block supports tilted power pole, state of emergency
08.09.10. Liquefaction damaged Avonside Dr, state of emergency
08.09.10. Liquefaction damaged Avonside Dr, state of emergency. Concrete block supports leaning power pole
08.09.10. Liquefaction damaged curb & pavement, Avonside Dr, state of emergency
08.09.10. Liquefaction damaged pavement & driveway, Avonside Dr, state of emergency
08.09.10. Liquefaction damaged drain shoved up above road surface, Avonside Dr, state of emergency
08.09.10. Liquefaction damaged roadside, Avonside Dr, state of emergency
08.09.19. Liquefaction silt, Avon River bank, Avonside Dr, state of emergency
08.09.10. Skateboarder leaping over liquefaction damaged, concrete path, Avon River bank, Avonside Dr, state of emergency. (Pic laterally inverted). Cracks caused by lateral spreading
08.09.10. Liquefaction damaged, concrete path, Avonside Dr, state of emergency
08.09.10. Quake damaged, concrete drain leaning towards Avon River, Avonside Dr, state of emergency
08.09.10. Workman fixing liquefaction damaged, underground cables, Avonside Dr, state of emergency
08.09.10. Workmen's vehicles for repairing liquefaction damaged Avonside Dr, state of emergency
08.09.10. Quake crack across Avonside Dr, state of emergency
08.09.10. Workman fixing liquefaction damaged, underground cables, Avonside Dr, state of emergency
08.09.10. Liquefaction damaged Avonside Dr, state of emergency
08.09.10. Workmen fixing liquefaction damage, Avonside Dr / Morris St, state of emergency
Madras St / Salisbury St: Simply Catering, two-storey, upper brick-walls, parapets peeled off onto collapsed footpath-awning. Rubble on footpath. White-plastic-tape-cordoned. Building would be demolished,
Greers Rd: Burnside High Sschool, temporary accommodation for quake-displaced people near our Heath St rental.
08.09.10. Quake damaged, Simply Catering (soon demolished) Madras St / Salisbury St, state of emergency
08.09.10. Quake damaged, Simply Catering (soon demolished) Madras St / Salisbury St, state of emergency
08.09.10. Quake damaged, Simply Catering (soon demolished) Madras St / Salisbury St, state of emergency
08.09.10. Quake damaged, Simply Catering (soon demolished) Madras St / Salisbury St, state of emergency
08.09.10. Quake rubble, Simply Catering (soon demolished) Salisbury St / Madras St, state of emergency
08.09.10. Twisted metal & quake rubble, Simply Catering (soon demolished) Madras St, state of emergency
08.09.10. Twisted metal, quake rubble & green bus, Simply Catering (soon demolished) Madras St, state of emergency
12.09.10. Demolished Simply Catering, Madras St, state of emergency
08.09.10. Burnside High School, Greers Rd, one of several CD refuges for people needing state of emergency accommodation after Christchurch quake
*Trekked Mona Vale, Riccarton Rd, Cranmer Sq, Gloucester St, Worcester Blvd, Armagh St, Colombo St, St Asaph St, Madras St, Latimer Sq, Chester St West, Peterborough St, Salisbury St, Victoria St, Montreal St, Kilmore St, Avonside Dr, Greers Rd. 128 snaps.
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@Tracey. Will be careful. Christchurch people are unusually friendly, reminded of our mortality. 8 September 1.47am.
@Andrew. We're all OK. See more damage daily while driving around Christchurch, repairs and reconstruction plans going quickly. Property owners can claim damages from NZ Earthquake Commission (EQC) & insurance companies. Demolishers, architects, engineers, builders, estate-agents, road-constructors rubbing their hands expectantly. 8 September 2.23am.
@ Pippa. Day 5. Woke up this morning with another aftershock M5+ big, growly, shaky. (Last night while I was on Facebook, smaller aftershock). Jake phoned, said some of his kitchen bowls were smashed! 8 September 9.20am.
Day 5. Leah's London St school was declared safe by a builder & a structural-engineer. All kids back to school on Monday 13 September 2010. Aftershocks continuing... Avonside Girls High I drove past yesterday had a gate sign: "Trespassers will be detained." 8 September 9.47am.
@ Pippa. Day 5. Still shaking. Experts now talk of a "new fault" near Christchurch: Greendale Fault, a 16 000 year old fault covered in soil which caused the quake. 8 September 10.56am.
@Pippa. Lucky. Just a crack in a roof-panel by our front-door. Damage in Christchurch: seismic-waves snapped to the surface leaving a regular pattern of cracks & pockets of devastation.
Computer-monitor regularly jiggles in front of my eyes, aftershocks while I type. Damage examples: Only one brick popped out of a garden-wall. Many garden-walls, brick-chimneys collapsed. Wooden power-pole snapped off at ground-level in Greers Rd near home, tangled, loose electric-lines. Wall peeled off a CBD two-storey house in Colombo St, showing a giant "dolls house", ornaments on a cupboard top, toilet intact. CBD cordoned-streets, no traffic, usually very busy, like a movie-set. Just cops, troops, gawkers around.
Haven't seen all the damage, too much for my brain to take. Dazed looks, 1 000 yard stares from people.
More examples: Drove along Madras St, weaving around a series of concrete / steel manholes, all pushed above the road-surface, tarseal hardly cracked. Massive silt / water destruction at Avonside, Bexley, New Brighton suburbs due to liquefaction.
State-of-Emergency, first ever in Christchurch, reminded me of apartheid States-of-Emergencies we experienced. 9 September 12.33pm.
Content & pics Copyright Mark JS Esslemont.
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