Papanui Rd: Brunch at Merivale McDonald's, ready to trek Christchurch quake cordon, zone 3, beside the no access, red zone, as zone 3 was opened on Friday, 3 days before. Sign in Merivale McDonald's:
14.03.11. Merivale McDonald's quake sign:
Just to let you know,
*Our water supply is certified as safe for consumption
*Our waste from the kitchen and toilets is being captured on-site and removed for treatment
*Water is a precious resource. Please be considerate in the use of water in our bathrooms.
14.03.11. Sept 4 & Feb 22 quake damaged, brick Carlton Hotel, Papanui Rd, national state of emergency. One News camped across the road from the Carlton, several weeks. Carlton Hotel would be demolished. A retail / office block would be rebuilt on site
Near the bottom of Papanui Rd, I trekked past a white painted hotel, 2 cop cars outside. Returning later that afternoon, I saw 2 more parked cop cars & a clutch of cops in the driveway. Cops were spoilt in their hotel, a BAR sign on front, after they patrolled the broken CBD & E suburbs, citizens still in shit, 3 weeks post quake, battling for potable water, chemical toilets, portaloos.
14.03.11. Orange, plastic, road cones, steel fence, steel mesh fence cordon. Yellow digger demolishing brick, Saggio di vino, damaged by the Sept 4 quake, trashed by the Feb 22 quake, Bealey Ave / Victoria St, national state of emergency.
Papanui Rd: Trekked past One News camp: 3 porta-cabins, opp sanitised Carlton Hotel ghost. TV presenter, Michael Holland sat at a table, cell-phoning. Breaking News evolved near his cosy porta-cabin: across Bealey Ave a digger demolished brick, Saggio di Vino ghost. Not a One News camera in sight.
Saggio di vino ghost, damaged by the Sept 4 Darfield Quake, scaffolded for nearly 6 months. It took Feb 22 Killer Quake trashing for authorities to demolish Saggio di vino.
Across the road from Knox Church ghost, another brick ghost, 1 000s of brick projectiles, leaned next to Saggio di vino. Both brick ghosts would be demolished:
14.03.11. Orange, plastic tape, steel fence cordon. Orange, Hi-Vis vested, NZDF cordon soldiers & USAR / TF in black overall & hard hat checking demolition of Saggio di vino, Bealey Ave / Victoria St, national state of emergency
When I returned 3 hours later, Saggio di vino was a heap of brick rubble. Three Urban Search & Rescue (USAR / TF ) men wearing black overalls, hard hats, checked the demolition site for safety. As usual NZDF soldiers wearing camouflage uniforms, orange Hi-Vis vests, guarded every cordon crossing.
Papanui Rd / Bealey Ave: Carlton Court: Closed Sophie's Cafe, next to One News camp, had two rows of pics on the window, Sophie smiling with celebrity news readers, paradox, as real news was on the streets for anyone to see. 2012. Sophie's Cafe & other shops in Carlton Court would be closed, fence cordoned, obstructing Papanui Rd traffic for months. Carlton Court would survive the 2010-13 quakes.
That Mon night, One News featured film star, Russel Crowe, who 3 weeks post Feb 22 Killer Quake rediscovered his Christchurch roots, still used his NZ passport, he said, although he'd lived mostly in Australia. After a conducted tour of CBD ruins, banned to most citizens who'd survived 6 months of Christchurch quakes, Crowe preached to Christchurch citizens what to do with themselves post quake. We never heard from Crowe again. CD would continue allowing tourist celebrities into the cordoned CBD for snaps, while citizens were banned access to the cordoned CBD. What was CD boss Hamilton thinking?
14.03.11. White, plastic tape, steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged house, Montreal St, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency
14.03.11. Quake damaged, fallen window glass, Montreal St, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency. USAR / TF graffito, CLEAR meant no bodies
14.03.11. Montreal St, zone 3 cordon view, Sept 4 quake demolition sites in zone 4 cordon. Caxton Press, part demolition site across Victoria St, national state of emergency
Montreal St, CBD zone 3 cordon: Deserted. At the fence cordoned red zone, no access, I snapped a Sept 4 Darfield Quake demolition site & beyond: demolished Caxton Press, part demolition site, Victoria St. Closer, glass had fallen off a modern multi-storey. Seated in undercover parking, 2 NZDF soldiers were indifferent to my greeting that hot, humid afternoon.
14.03.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged Jubilee Clock Tower, zone 4 cordon, Victoria St / Salisbury St / Montreal St crossing, finial bent, clock stopped at Feb 22 quake time, 12.51 pm, national state of emergency. Abandoned Victoria Mansions behind
Victoria St: Viewed through the steel mesh fence cordon, I snapped the iron, Jubilee Clock Tower, its iron finial skewed by the Feb 22 Killer Quake, clock stopped at Feb 22 Killer Quake time, 12.51pm. Saw red zone ghost hotels, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Copthorne Hotel, which would be demolished. In addition to red, yellow, green, no access / access stickers, there were more confusing Council stickers on damaged bldgs:
Orange sign:
DANGER
DO NOT ENTER...
Green sign:
ATTENTION
POWER HAS BEEN REMOVED...
14.03.11. Red plastic tape, orange, plastic, fence cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged house, zone 3 cordon, Conference St, national state of emergency
14.03.11. Feb 22 quake damaged, boarded, state flats, zone 3 cordon, Conference St, national state of emergency
Conference St: Deserted, leafy, several quake damaged houses, mostly old, brick or wooden houses. Modern 3 storey block of state flats was boarded on the ground floor, abandoned. As people were evacuating quake trashed housing & people were expelled from quake damaged, state & Council housing, a housing / rental crisis would evolve in Christchurch.
Durham St Nth / Salisbury St: ROAD CLOSED. At the red zone, no access cordon, 2 NZDF soldiers check-pointed at Laycock's Collision Repairs, being demolished by a yellow digger. Laycock's was backdropped by Christchurch Casino in the red zone. The Casino would survive the 2010-2013 quakes.
14.03.11. Yellow digger. View S down Durham St Nth, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency. Crowne Plaza Hotel, Copthorne Hotel & Casino backdrop. The hotels would be demolished
14.03.11. ROAD CLOSED. Feb 22 quake, Laycock's demolition, Durham St Nth / Salisbury St, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency
Laycock's demolition: A yellow digger lunged, grabbed, bashed chunks of concrete beams & roofing, chewing a huge hole, in clouds of dust. By Laycock's demolition, the 2 NZDF soldiers had a makeshift, steel mesh cordon fence hut, covered with a blue tarp for weather-proofing & dust-proofing. One wore a dust mask. They sauntered out to checkpoint vehicles accessing the CBD red zone. Bystanders witnessed the demolition. As I was wary of asbestos dust & cement dust, I didn't linger. With neighbouring demo sites along Salisbury St, Laycocks demo site would become a shingle carpark for Christchurch Casino patrons & business folk. 2023. It would still be a dusty, shingle carpark.
14.03.11. Orange, plastic, fence cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged house, Salisbury St, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency
14.03.11. Yellow, plastic, tape, orange, plastic, fence cordon. Feb 22 Quake trashed house & garage, Salisbury St, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency. USAR / TF graffito CLEAR meant no bodies
14.03.11. Yellow, plastic tape, orange, plastic, fence cordon. Feb 22 quake trashed house, Salisbury St, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency
Salisbury St: The cordon had shrunk from Bealey Ave to parallel Salisbury St. 4 quake trashed, red stickered houses: 1. Fallen brick side wall, despite wooden bracing, brick rubble in garden. 2. Fallen brick facade, blue tarp covered, brick rubble in garden, red plastic tape cordoned. 3. Side brick wall ripped off house, exposing roof trusses, rooms, other brick side wall collapsed, blue tarped, brick rubble in garden. Garage collapsed, garage door crumpled, USAR / TF graffitied, yellow, plastic taped, orange, plastic, fence cordoned. 4. 2 storey house walls cracked. Boarded windows, front door.
Sept 2019. During post quake, Salisbury St treks, I would see several new flat developments where ghost housing once stood.
Trekked E along Salisbury St, questing Jakes' old rental house, Ely St, to see if it had survived the Feb 22 Killer Quake. En route, Colombo St crossing, 2 friendly NZDF soldiers beckoned me past their orange, plastic, road cones, inviting me to take pics. Unspiteful, compared to media cops I saw Moorhouse Ave / Montreal St 10 days prior.
14.03.11. Orange, plastic, road cone cordon. NZDF soldiers, Colombo St / Salisbury St, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency
14.03.11. Yellow, plastic, tape cordon. Sept 4 quake & Feb 22 quake damaged house, Colombo St, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency. The house would be demolished, the turret grounded on site for years afterwards
14.03.11. ROAD CLOSED. Orange, plastic, road cones, steel mesh fence cordon. Seated NZDF soldier guarding Zone 3 cordon. S view, Colombo St from zone 3 cordon into the CBD red zone, national state of emergency. Feb 22 quake damaged construction site left had Sept 4 quake trashed / demolished bldgs. Stairwell steps had collapsed in blue Forsyth Barr right, trapping people. Some escaped by rope-climbing out of windows. Brown, PWC high rise left would be demolished for the planned RC Cathedral precinct
14.03.11. S view, abandoned Colombo St from Salisbury St cordon. Quake trashed, blue, Forsyth Barr behind & Christ Church Cathedral, collapsed tower rubble below. Bldgs left & right would be demolished, incl Copthorne Hotel mid left
14.03.11. Feb 22 quake damaged construction site, Colombo St, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency. The site had had Sept 4 quake trashed / demolished bldgs on it.
14.03.11. CBD cordoned red zone. Feb 22 quake trashed, brick bldgs, Colombo St, national state of emergency. Old bldgs right would be demolished. Christchurch Town Hall, also quake damaged, behind trees, would be restored
14.03.11. Zone 3 cordon, S view, Colombo St, into red zone CBD. Yellow digger by a heap of collapsed tower rubble, Christ Church Cathedral. Steel braced "Battering Ram" rose window, W wall
Salisbury St / Colombo St: ROAD CLOSED. 2 NZDF soldiers sat in midday shade by green Europcar bldg. Told the soldiers, that where they guarded I'd seen several Colombo St bldgs damaged by the Sept 4 Darfield Quake, which became demolition sites. Later on during NZDF soldiers' 28 month occupation of Christchurch CBD, soldiers' cordon huts would upgrade from makeshift, steel mesh fence cordon & blue tarp constructions to natty, wooden huts, $10 000 a pop. NZDF soldiers wouldn't melt in the midday sun, nor freeze in winter.
Meanwhile, Christchurch citizens slumming in ghost houses were dubbed "resilient," enduring boarded walls & windows & tarped roofs for years, awaiting EQC & insurer claim settlements. When authorities spouted "resilient" I wanted to puke.
Colombo St: A 2 storey, turreted, wooden ghost, side wall fallen, loose roof tiles. The house would be demolished. A concrete bldg already going up post Sept 4 Darfield Quake was damaged by the Feb 22 Killer Quake: concrete bricks fallen from the top of a new wall, steel reinforcement rods bent like spaghetti.
S down Colombo St, Christ Church Cathedral ghost tower, a rubble heap. My first view of the fallen tower since the Feb 22 Killer Quake. A yellow digger stood over the rubble. "Battering Ram" steel bracing was in front of the W wall, protecting the rose window. Otherwise, quake trashed Colombo St was deserted: orange, plastic, road cones, steel mesh fence cordons down the street, cordoning ghosts, fallen brick facades, brick rubble on the road. Forsyth Barr high rise stood firm where people had been trapped inside after stairwell collapse. They were saved by rope-lowering themselves from a window to a lower roof. PWC high rise ghost nearby would be demolished for the planned RC Cathedral precinct. Most of the old Colombo St bldgs would be demolished.
14.03.11. NZDF soldier, Zone 3 cordon, Colombo St / Salisbury St, national state of emergency
14.03.11. DANGER. CLEAR.White, plastic tape, orange, plastic, fence cordon. Feb 22 quake collapsed house wall, Salisbury St, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency
14.03.11. Feb 22 quake trashed house, Salisbury St, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency. USAR's CLEAR meant no bodies
14.03.11. USAR / TF graffiti & rent sign, "Excellent standard of presentation," by Feb 22 quake trashed house, Salisbury St, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency
14.03.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake collapsed, concrete & iron chimney, Salisbury St pavement, zone 3 fence cordon, national state of emergency
14.03.11. Zone 3, steel mesh fence cordon, Salisbury St, S view, Manchester St, into CBD red zone, national state of emergency. Roof of quake damaged St Lukes Anglican Church behind trees. St Lukes would be demolished
14.03.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house, Manchester St, CBD red zone cordon, national state of emergency
Salisbury St: 2 storey, old rental, rent ad: "Excellent standard of presentation... From $145 per week..." Side brick wall had fallen onto carpark & pavement, exposing rooms. Wooden fence USAR / TF graffitied: SLAB & WALL CLEARED, orange, plastic, fence cordoned. DANGER DO NOT ENTER sign on fence cordon. 2 concrete & iron fireplaces & chimneys lay on the pavement.
Manchester St behind steel mesh fence cordon: 2 ghost houses: 1. Fallen front brick wall, brick rubble in garden. 2. Yellow stickered. Fallen roof tiles. Collapsed garage, white, plastic, tape cordoned.
Salisbury St: Trekked past Asian food warehouse ghost where Leah had shopped: Cracked concrete brick wall, boarded windows & door, steel mesh fence cordoned. Next door, Briscoes carpark ghost quakemired, like the Asian food warehouse's. Asian food warehouse & Briscoes would be demolished. Briscoes would be rebuilt on site. Quake snapped concrete curb. Quakemire heap roadside. USAR / TF graffiti on pavement & brick garden wall: GAS OFF. HAZARD ABOVE
14.03.11. Feb 22 quake damaged Asian food warehouse, Salisbury St, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency. Asian food warehouse would be demolished
14.03.11. Feb 22 quake snapped, concrete curb, Salisbury St, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency
14.03.11. USAR / TF graffiti on brick wall by liquefaction silt, Salisbury St, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency
14.03.11. Feb 22 quake liquefactioned Briscoes carpark, Salisbury St, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency. Briscoes would be demolished & rebuilt
14.03.11. Deserted, orange, plastic, road cone cordoned, Salisbury St, near Briscoes, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency
14.03.11. Concrete block & chain, orange, plastic road cone cordoned, Salisbury St near Briscoes, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency
Along Salisbury St, while trekking past Madras St crossing, I saw deserted streets. The CBD no access, red zone side had steel mesh fence cordons, 2 NZDF soldiers at each crossing. In the no access red zone, CBD high rises were abandoned post Feb 22 Killer Quake. Over the next 2 years, demolishers would change the CBD skyline forever.
In the red zone I glimpsed more church ghosts: St Lukes Anglican Church, Manchester St, Oxford Tce Baptist Church. Both churches would be demolished, the latter rebuilt modern style, sans neoclassical, Ionic capitals. Many CBD churches were trashed in the Feb 22 Killer Quake & demolished.
Damage I saw outside the red zone: liquefactioned streets, driveways, pavements, carparks. Some old, brick & wooden bldgs damaged. Some survived OK, but there were many with red or yellow stickers, restricting entry. Red sticker, entry forbidden. Modern bldgs had survived better, green or yellow stickered. Yellow sticker, entry restricted. Green sticker, entry allowed. A smaller green sticker showed power was switched off. Council's big & small green stickers were confusing.
14.03.11. Feb 22 quake tilted house (green stickered, entry OK) Salisbury St, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency
14.03.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Sept 4 quake demolition site, Salisbury St / Madras St, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency
Salisbury St / Madras St: House demolition site, brick rubble heaps in garden, RED spray-painted on 1 part demolished, brick wall, steel mesh fence cordoned. Next door house, roof orange tarped, boarded window. Brick garden wall, part demolished.
Madras St / Peterborough St: Steel mesh fence cordon across Madras St. 2 NZDF soldiers in their fence cordon, blue tarped hut guarded the no access, red zone cordon. Nearby, 2 wood & brick houses: 1. Red stickered. Fallen brick side walls, rubble in garden, CAUTION yellow, plastic taped, orange, plastic, fence cordoned. The house would be demolished. 2. Fallen brick garden wall, brick rubble in garden, yellow plastic taped, orange, plastic, fence cordoned. Liquefaction damaged street in front of the 2 houses. Mud was cleared from pavement & gutter. Flooded sinkhole, about 1m diameter in the middle of the deserted road, blue plastic pallet & orange, plastic, road cone cordoned. Gutter on the far side filled with noxious, brown water.
14.03.11. Yellow, plastic tape, orange, plastic, fence cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged house, Madras St, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency
14.03.11. Feb 22 quake damaged houses, Madras St, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency. House on right would be demolished
14.03.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. NZDF soldiers' cordon hut at end of zone 3 cordon, looking S into CBD red zone, Madras St, national state of emergency
14.03.11. Zone 3. Deserted, liquefactioned, Madras St, orange, plastic, road cone cordon, national state of emergency
14.03.11. Madras St sinkhole, zone 3, plastic pallet, orange, plastic, road cone cordon, national state of emergency
14.03.11. Madras St, liquefaction silt, flooding & rubble truck, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency, view S to CBD red zone cordon. Serial quake trashed Oxford Tce Baptist Church, soon demolished, distant left
Salisbury St / Madras St: A Sept 4 Darfield Quake demolition site. An old, 2 storey, quake tilted house, green stickered. Yes, quake tilted house, green stickered, safe! Quakemire heaps along Salisbury St.
Salisbury St: More quaked houses, flats. USAR/ TF spray-painted graffiti on bldgs & pavements: CLEAR or C showed no bodies; NO GO or NG showed a forbidden area. That graffiti was repeated 1 000s of times all over Christchurch, while USAR / TF & bldg inspectors filtered across town. Abandoned cardboard box, filled with white crockery, lay by a wooden fence, opposite a flat's sray-painted front door.
14.03.11. Green stickered door, pink USAR / TF graffiti, quake damaged house, Salisbury St, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency
Sign by an automatic gate: "Do not allow gates to slam closed. Please close by hand only." The mod bldg's gate post, concrete bricks were quake shattered, disabling the gate. The tarseal pavement had quake holes next to the wall. DANGER: Salisbury Lane flats on the opp side of the street were warped & tilted by the Feb 22 Killer Quake, liquefaction mud in open garages below the bldg, white, plastic taped, orange, plastic fence cordoned. The roadside block of Salisbury Lane flats would be demolished.
14.03.11. DANGER. White, plastic tape, orange, plastic, fence cordon. Feb 22 quake tilted & warped Salisbury Lane flats, Salisbury St, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency. The roadside block of Salisbury Lane flats would be demolished
All along Salisbury St, I'd seen USAR / TF graffiti, orange & pink spray-painted on bldgs & pavements, some had NSW & UK USAR / TF markings, often with ALL CLEAR, C, or NO GO added. Throughout the CBD in 3 zones I'd trekked so far, I'd seen 1 000s of spray-painted markings, as bldg inspectors & USAR / TF teams checked bldg safety. Leah's London St school had needed a bldg inspection, safety check before people could enter again. Post Sept 4 Darfield Quake, similar USAR / TF graffiti had been spray-painted on bldgs too.
Ely St: Water from a burst water pipe in a garden flooded into Salisbury St. Beyond the flooding, Jake's old house rental had survived the Feb 22 Killer Quake. Dry quakemire heaps roadside, caused windblown dust.
14.03.11. Rubbish bin & grey portaloo. Ely St flooding into Salisbury St, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency
14.03.11. Ely St rental house, undamaged by Feb 22 quake, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency
14.03.11. Feb 22 quake liquefactioned Ely St, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency
Salisbury St / Barbadoes St crossing: Orange, plastic, road cones & warning signs. NO EXIT sign by a steel mesh fence cordon. I didn't trek zone 3 tail, beside quaked Avon Loop, along Oxford Tce, as I'd done that days before. Turned left into Barbadoes St towards Bealey Ave again.
Barbadoes St Cemetery: Having swigged nearly 1.5 litres Coke, cooling more I trekked below trees, amongst settlers' broken gravestones, by a broken greystone retaining wall. Afternoon heat, during my trek along Salisbury St & some of Barbadoes St there was little vehicle traffic, more pedestrians.
14.03.11. NO EXIT sign. Steel mesh fence cordon. Salisbury St / Barbadoes St, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency
14.03.11. Feb 22 quake damaged grave, Barbadoes Street Cemetery, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency
Melrose St, parallel to Bealey Ave: 3 quake trashed houses: 1. Fallen brick parapet, brick rubble in garden. 2. Fallen brick wall, green & blue tarped. Brick rubble in garden. 3. Red stickered, concrete spalling on porch door post, steel rebars exposed, yellow, plastic taped, orange, plastic, fence cordoned.
14.03.11. Feb 22 quake damaged, brick house, Melrose St, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency
14.03.11. DANGER. Yellow, plastic tape, orange, plastic, fence cordon. Feb 22 quake spalled, concrete columns, rebars exposed, red stickered house, Melrose St, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency
Bealey Ave / Colombo St: Red car on top of Bealey Pharmacy demolition rubble.
Bealey Ave: Red stickered, wooden house, front door boarded. Leaky, smelly portaloos. School still closed, 2 girls cycled the pavement past a fallen brick, gate post. Ghosts: 212 Bealey Ave, red stickered, 2 collapsed, semi-detached houses, tilted forwards. Fallen chimney on roof. Concrete brick side walls, firewall & foundation wall cracked, broken, huge gaps in places between concrete bricks. Concrete brick rubble in garden & driveway. Side wall pipes, bent, detached. White, plastic, tape cordoned. The houses would be demolished.
Durham St Nth: Synagogue, steel & concrete block braced. Old, 2 storey, wooden house, which was blue & green tarped for months post Sept 4 Darfield Quake, a rubble pile. Orange digger sorted rubble.
14.03.11. Red stickered bldg, Bealey Ave, national state of emergency
14.03.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Quake crushed, red car on demo rubble, Feb 22 quake, Bealey Pharmacy demolition site, Bealey Ave, national state of emergency. Tilt slab shops would be rebuilt on site.
14.03.11. Red portaloo, gridlock traffic, Bealey Ave, national state of Emergency
14.03.11. Feb 22 quake toppled, brick, gate post & unschooled girls, Bealey Ave, national state of emergency
14.03.11. White, plastic tape, concrete block cordon. Feb 22 quake braced synagogue, Durham St Nth, national state of emergency
14.03.11. Orange digger, Feb 22 quake demolished house, damaged in Sept 4 quake, Durham St Nth, national state of emergency
14.03.11. Feb 22 quake trashed, red stickered house, 212 Bealey Ave, national state of emergency. House would be demolished
16.11.11. Demolition site where Feb 22 quake trashed, red stickered, 212 Bealey Ave house once stood
Bealey Ave / Manchester St: Dairy, broken blue chimney lay behind. Dairy would survive the 2010-2013 quakes. 2023. Dairy would be demolished.
Manchester St: Grey portaloo in garden. Fallen brick, garden wall, steel mesh fence cordoned post Sept 4 Darfield Quake. Steel mesh fence cordon collapsed Feb 22 Killer Quake. Opp side of street, a Council bldg, damaged Sept 4 Darfield Quake, demolished post Feb 22 Killer Quake, a huge, brick rubble heap.
14.03.11. HireQuip loo in garden, Manchester St, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency
14.03.11. White, plastic tape, collapsed steel mesh fence cordon. Sept 4 quake cordoned, Feb 22 quake trashed brick wall, Manchester St, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency
14.03.11. Demolished Council bldg, damaged by Sept 4 quake, trashed by Feb 22 quake, Manchester St, zone 3 cordon, national state of emergency
Bealey Ave / Victoria St: 2 orange, Hi-Vis vested, NZDF soldiers directed public by their orange, plastic taped, orange, plastic, road coned, steel fence cordon.
14.03.11. Orange, plastic tape, orange, plastic, road cones, steel fence cordon. Civvie & orange, Hi-Vis vested, NZDF cordon soldiers, zone 3, Bealey Ave / Victoria St, national state of emergency
14.03.11. Feb 22 quake trashed house, Papanui Rd, national state of emergency. House would be demolished
Papanui Rd: Old, brick, faux Tudor, 2 storey, ghost house, fallen gables & brick wall, exposed attic & rooms, brick rubble heap in garden. Two anorexic women sauntered past, wearing jogging gear, their trainers looked too big for their feet.
*Trekked Papanui Rd, Bealey Ave, Montreal St, Victoria St, Conference St, Durham St Nth, Salisbury St, Colombo St, Barbadoes St, Melrose St, Manchester St. 127 snaps.
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@Averil. Leah starts teaching on Monday. Jake is still waiting for work to restart. I trekked 2 CBD cordons this week.
Japan asked NZ to send USAR / TF teams to Japan as NZ had recent experience. UK, USA international USAR / TF teams were requested too. 12 Mar 11:00am.
Death toll 180. [Final toll 185].
National State of Emergency is into its 4th week now. Hope trashed bldgs will go fast. Chch mayor Bob Parker says 1/3 or more of CBD bldgs may be demolished. I saw many high rises still OK. Dunno condition of interiors. 13 Mar 11:42pm.
@Alan. Japan's triple whammied: monster quake, tsunami, nuclear radiation. We now avoid tall bldgs, brick & stone bldgs. We drive carefully over road bumps, potholes.
We watch out for tsunamis in NZ, if there's an offshore quake. Experts don't know, saying, "We can't predict quakes." 16 Mar 8:15am.
Later, experts would talk of a network of undiscovered faults below Canterbury.
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Fantastic post thank you.
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