I wanted to see zone 2 N section, incl Fitzgerald Ave, Oxford Tce beside Avon Loop, Gloucester St & Worcester St, past & present associations. I'd already been in part of zone 2 cordon during Feb 22 Killer Quake afternoon. Days later, a NZDF cordon soldier let me walk along deserted Fitzgerald Ave a bit.
09.03.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged bldg, Rossall St, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake damaged Rangi Ruru School bldg, Rossall St, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Concrete block bracing, Feb 22 quake damaged garden wall, Rossall St, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house (soon demolished) Rossall St, national state of emergency
On my drive from Burnside to Christchurch CBD, I stopped on Rossall St St to coolpix quake damage near Rangi Ruru School: Demolished shop, serial quake damaged business, 3 workmen on scaffold, wearing yellow, Hi-Vis vests installed wall boards covering part collapsed parapet. Three broken 2 storey houses (1st: roof repairs. 2nd: wall boarded, ground to roof. 3rd: top storey wall torn off showing "dolls house" room). Fallen brick garden wall. Concrete block & wood braced, concrete garden wall. Some of those bldgs had already been damaged by the Sept 4 Darfield Quake & aftershocks & were trashed by the Feb 22 Killer Quake. Since the Feb 22 Killer Quake, I'd often seen that pattern of quake trashing of old brick & stone bldgs. Already hazardous, why were those already damaged bldgs not demolished post Sept 4 Darfield Quake?
09.03.11. Orange, plastic, road cone cordon. Olive NZDF LAV, Bealey Ave / Park Tce, zone 4, national state of emergency
Martial law, Bealey Ave / Park Tce: Olive LAV parked behind orange, plastic, road cones, by NZDF cordon soldiers. The olive LAV circulated round CBD cordons, impressing rubberneckers. The LAV & NZDF soldiers were there to intimidate "looters," a media narrative. But citizens had already endured 6 quake months, many aftershocks. While I trekked zone 2 that day, I saw the grey, cop helicopter, borrowed from Auckland, circling Christchurch.
09.03.11. Fitzgerald Ave, zone 3 view, silt cleared Alexandra St with portaloos, national state of emergency
09.03.11. White, plastic, tape cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged houses, Fitzgerald Ave, zone 3, national state of emergency
London St: Undertaker business did a brisk trade lately. Undertaker ads on TV showed oily undertaker grinning inanely, fat wife, short haired, looked mawkish. That night an undertaker on TV news complained about "tactics" of Jap cameramen camped roadside near his business. Spoke for himself!br />
09.03.11. DANGER. White, plastic, tape cordon. Passing civvies & slack NZDF soldiers on "looted" chairs, Cambridge Tce / Fitzgerald Ave, zone 3, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Fitzgerald Ave, zone 3 view, Avon Loop & quake damaged Oxford Tce, zone 2, national state of emergency. Seen from quake collapsed Fitzgerald Ave north bound lane
Fitzgerald Ave / Cambridge Tce: Two NZDF soldiers lounged on looted / abandoned? chairs on the pavement, watching 3 rubberneckers passing the white, plastic, DANGER tape cordon. Again, slack NZDF soldiers didn't inspire confidence.
Fitzgerald Ave: Two ghost houses, red stickered, side brick walls collapsed, brick rubble in driveway. Two workmen wearing yellow, Hi-Vis vests shovelled quakemire onto a roadside pile, where mud had oozed, forming a liquefaction boil, swamping the pavement, hours post Feb 22 Killer Quake. From the road island I snapped Alexandra St, portalooed, cleaned, Feb 22 Killer Quake day, flooded, quakemired.
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake, north bound Fitzgerald Ave collapse by Avon Loop, zone 3, national state of emergency
Fitzgerald Ave: Traffic in zone 3 was confined to two orange, plastic, road coned, bumpy lanes, by roadside cracks & sinkhole at Avon Loop, where Fitzgerald Ave, northbound lane had collapsed. One side of the road had a huge sinkhole by a concrete wall, about 100m long, two lanes wide, huge longitudinal cracks in the sunken tarseal, massive piles of road rubble at one end. Another cameraman wombled past. We both snapped each other at either end of the road sinkhole, to show its size. And continued, he to Bealey Ave, me beside Avon River.
09.03.11. Orange, plastic, road cone cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged Fitzgerald Ave by Avon Loop, zone 3, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake buckled footpath, Fitzgerald Ave by Avon Loop, zone 3, national state of emergency
09.03.11. 50 km/h speed limit sign. Feb 22 quake buckled footpath by Fitzgerald Ave Bridge over Avon River, Kilmore St cnr, zone 3, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake, road buckling by Fitzgerald Ave Bridge over Avon River, Kilmore St cnr, zone 3, national state of emergency
Fitzgerald Ave / Kilmore St: Huge road cracks, some repaired. Buckled roadside. A section of concrete curb overlapped another bit, sticking up about one metre in the air. The road island by the bridge was badly cracked, so too River Rd going off Fitzgerald Ave. St John Ambulance men tended an old man's bloody face. He'd tripped over roadside damage.
Kilmore St / Oxford Tce: After crossing Avon River, I left zone 3, entered zone 2, National State of Emergency, CBD zones.
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake cracked Oxford Tce & gravel road repairs, zone 2, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Grey portaloo, Feb 22 quake liquefactioned & cracked Oxford Tce, zone 2, national state of emergency
Oxford Tce, Avon Loop: Jake had flatted there years before. Road deeply cracked, cracks ranging from half a metre to one metre wide, massive slumping of Avon River true right bank, deeply cracked, huge liquefaction boils in places. Lateral spreading started by the 04.09.10 Darfield Quake just widened in the 22.02.11 Killer Quake. Later CERA would red zone houses along Oxford Tce in the Avon Loop & demolish them. I passed a quake collapsed, brick, garden wall, DANGER yellow spay-painted on it. A car's wheels, trapped in a crack by the road curb.
09.03.11. DANGER. Feb 22 quake collapsed, brick wall, Oxford Tce, zone 2, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Car trapped in Feb 22 quake crack, caused by lateral spreading, Oxford Tce, zone 2, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake cracked, liquefactioned Oxford Tce, zone 2, national state of emergency
On a white wall bordering apartments, USAR / TF, yellow spray-painted graffiti:
ALL UNITS DAMAGED KEEP OUT
There were many red stickered, ghost houses on that section of Oxford Tce. Willows did fine, but a Lebanon cedar leaned by the river. Oxford Tce road repairs were progressing, road workers eating lunch, seated under willows. Opp Bangor St, a yellow digger stood by a quake tilted, Victorian brick, pumphouse by the river, a big sinkhole by the pumphouse. Huge heaps of liquefaction mud on Oxford Tce. The leaning brick, Victorian pumphouse would survive the 2010-2013 quakes, only bldg left there, after CERA's residential red zone demolitions.
Although Jake's flatting house was liquefactioned in the Sept 4 Darfield Quake, there was no further damage in the Feb 22 Killer Quake. CERA would later red zone the house, demolished it.
09.03.11. Oxford Tce repairs, zone 2, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Post Feb 22 quake roadworks by quake tilted, Bangor St pump house, Oxford Tce / Bangor St zone 2, national state of emergency. Bangor St brick pump house would survive the 2010-2013 quakes, only bldg left there, after CERA's residential red zone demolitions
09.03.1.1 Oxford Tce view: Avon Loop ducks on a liquefaction silt island, zone 2, national state of emergency. Quake damaged jetty. Quake cracked Cambridge Tce on opp bank
A new mud island, with ducks, had formed in Avon River. Cambridge Tce across the river was also quake cracked, by Barbadoes St Cemetery. Holiday Inn ghost by Avon River was steel mesh fence cordoned, the carpark deserted by the no access, red zone cordon. No NZDF soldiers nor cops in sight. Holiday Inn would be demolished, but the demo site would stay empty. 2023. Still empty surrounded by a board fence. Pre-quakes we knew that Holiday Inn, an Auckland nurse friend stayed there when visiting Christchurch. High rise, Holiday Inn ghost in the CBD cordon would also be demolished by CERA, 2012.
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake cracked Avon River bank, Oxford Tce & quake tilted house, zone 2, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Orange, plastic, road cone cordon. Feb 22 quake cracked Oxford Tce, zone 2, national state of emergency. Lateral spreading towards Avon River bank
09.02.11. Oxford Tce, steel mesh fence cordon, between zone 2 & red zone Barbadoes St. Abandoned CBD high rises beyond.
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake damaged, steel mesh fence cordoned Holiday Inn, Oxford Tce, national state of emergency. Holiday Inn would be demolished
I turned back along no exit Hurley St, trekked through Walnut Tree Park. Rejoined Kilmore St via liquefactioned Bangor St, mud not removed yet. Another quake snapped concrete curb. Three women chatted on Hurley St, but I didn't snap their quake damaged house, its side, brick wall ripped off. I tried not to intrude while snapping. Most of those roads in Avon Loop would be red zoned by CERA, ghost houses demolished.
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake, liquefaction silted, Bangor St, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake snapped, concrete curb, Bangor St, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Quake damaged, wood braced bldg, Kilmore St nr Fitzgerald Ave, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Kilmore St view, Feb 22 quake trashed brick bldgs & car, national state of emergency
Kilmore St / Fitzgerald Ave again: Pomeroy's Old Brewery Inn, brick walls wood braced, brick parapet blue tarped, would survive the 2010-2013 quakes. Another brick bldg, brick gable fallen, roof trusses exposed, brick rubble in carpark. Car crushed by fallen bricks.
Fitzgerald Ave: Brick ghosts for the next block, I called Pickwicks ghosts after the antiques business there. Massive quake damage to Pickwicks ghosts, some 3 storeys high: Roof collapsed in places exposing trusses, parapets, upper brick walls ripped off, rooms exposed, office furniture scattered, brick rubble on pavement & road, behind a steel mesh fence cordon, hot water cylinder on high, leaning perilously. (Most Pickwicks bldgs would be demolished). I snapped from the road island, taking my chances under trees, rather than loose bricks, road cracks, potholes, steel mesh fence cordons, weaving traffic.
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake trashed Pickwicks (later demolished) Fitzgerald Ave, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake trashed Pickwicks (later demolished) Fitzgerald Ave, national state of emergency
Used a plastic portaloo on the road isle by Pickwicks, traffic roaring past either side, unnerving. Portaloo was grubby, equipped with blue chemicals, toilet paper in a plastic dispenser. And a plastic urinal.
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake trashed Pickwicks (later demolished) Fitzgerald Ave, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Blue portaloo on road isle, near Feb 22 quake trashed Pickwicks (later demolished) Fitzgerald Ave, national state of emergency
Fitzgerald Ave: I trekked past 4 quake trashed houses: 1. House obscured by trees. Concrete block garden wall collapsed onto pavement. 2. Red stickered, ghost house. Brick garden wall part collapsed on pavement. USAR / TF graffiti, yellow spray-painted on brick wall. White, plastic tape cordoned. 3. Red stickered, ghost house. Roof tiles gone. Steel mesh fence cordoned. 4. Roof tiles gone. Collapsed side brick wall, 2 rooms exposed. Fallen bricks neatly stacked in garden. Steel mesh fence cordoned.
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake toppled, concrete brick wall, Fitzgerald Ave, national state of emergency
09.03.11. White, plastic, tape cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged, brick wall & red stickered house, Fitzgerald Ave, national state of emergency. USAR / TF graffiti on wall
09.03.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Fitzgerald Ave, wood & sidewall, brick house trashed by the Feb 22 quake, national state of emergency. House would be demolished
Gloucester St: I trekked past quaked trashed housing, both sides of the street, still not connected to water, to 2 NZDF soldiers & 3 red overalled NZRT men wearing orange hard hats behind the CBD red zone, steel mesh fence cordon, Gloucester St / Barbadoes St crossing. Cars drove by, turned at the fence cordon. Noone else. Damages: Collapsed concrete block, carpark wall, Gloucester Motor Company. Brick rubble heaps lay in gardens. Brick house walls were cracked. Brick house walls were peeled off, exposing rooms. A brick gatepost in 3 pieces lay on the pavement. A collapsed brick chimney left a gaping hole in a 2 storey Heritage house, bricks flung onto an iron roof below.
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake toppled, garage wall, Gloucester St, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house, Gloucester St, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house, Gloucester St, national state of emergency. USAR's spray-painted C on letterbox wall meant Clear, no bodies
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake trashed, old brick house, Gloucester St, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake toppled, brick gate post, Gloucester St, national state of emergency
09.03.11. ROAD CLOSED. Steel mesh fence cordon. NZDF soldiers & red overalled, NZRT at fence cordon between zone 2 & no access, red zone, Gloucester St / Barbadoes St crossing, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake damaged, 2 storey house, Gloucester St / Fitzgerald Ave, national state of emergency
Gloucester St / Fitzgerald Ave: Owner of the 1880s Heritage, 2 storey house, brick chimney collapsed, later wanted Council to give $3-4 million to revamp his property into an arts precinct, with a small theatre, E side of the CBD. (Weekend Press 14.10.11). Wishful thinking. Post quakes, just one example of businessmen trying to socialize costs, privatize profits. Owners of dangerous old, brick bldgs had had years to strengthen bldgs before quakes. Expecting ratepayers to repair their quake damaged bldgs under the guise of community schemes was corrupt.
Greed would escalate to NZ National govt level when CERA & CDDU would socialize costs, privatize profits with "anchor projects," like CERA's Blueprint Convention Centre, paid by taxpayers. Hotels would then profit from Convention Centre visitors. As for CERA's Blueprint Stadium between Madras St & Barbadoes St, projected costs would balloon to over half a billion NZ dollars by 2022, before construction started. Who would pay? 2024. An escalating costs farrago would happen with quaked Christ Church Cathedral reinstatement! Who would pay?
09.03.11. Blue portaloo, Fitzgerald Ave, between Gloucester St & Worcester St crossings, national state of emergency
Worcester St: Trekked to 2 NZDF soldiers at the NO ENTRY steel mesh fence cordon. Snapped quake damaged houses I'd snapped post Boxing Day Quake, trashed by the Feb 22 Killer Quake, 4 houses in a row. USAR / TF had spray-painted C (Clear, no bodies) on garden fences. Roofs damaged. Wooden gables fallen. Brick chimneys fallen. Brick rubble in gardens & on pavements. Brick parapets, brick walls toppled, rooms exposed, showing furniture. Why were those unsafe houses not demolished after earlier quakes? One 2 storey wooden house was OK, wood boarded, steel braced, unaffected by the Feb 22 Killer Quake, bracing adequate for the Feb 22 Killer Quake.
09.03.11. Worcester St house damaged by the Sept 4 quake, trashed by the Feb 22 quake, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Orange, plastic, road cones. Steel mesh fence cordon. NZDF guards between zone 2 & no access, CBD red zone, Worcester St / Barbadoes St crossing, national state of emergency
09.03.11. NO ENTRY. Orange, plastic, road cones. Steel mesh fence cordon. Yellow, Hi-Vis vested, NZDF soldier & demolition site in CBD red zone, Worcester St / Barbadoes St crossing, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Demolition site in CBD red zone, Worcester St / Barbadoes St crossing, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Steel fence & steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake damage to brick bldg in CBD red zone, Worcester St / Barbadoes St, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Steel & wood braced, brick fire wall, damaged in the Sept 4 quake. Bracing held in the Feb 22 quake, Worcester St, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake damaged, old, brick wall, bookending a new bldg, Worcester St, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Workmen boarding an old, brick wall, bookending a new bldg, damaged by the Feb 22 quake, Worcester St, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake damaged, wood & brick, fire wall houses, Worcester St, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Wood & side wall, brick house, damaged in the Sept 4 quake, trashed in the Feb 22 quake, Worcester St, national state of emergency
09.02.11. DANGER KEEP OUT. Red, plastic, tape cordon. Serial quake trashed housing, post Feb 22 quake, Worcester St, national state of emergency. USAR / TF graffito, C on fence meant Clear, no bodies
09.03.11. White, plastic, tape cordon. Feb 22 quake trashed house, Worcester St, national state of emergency
By a modern bldg, book-ended by two, old, brick walls, cracked & damaged by the Feb 22 Killer Quake, yellow words were spray-painted by USAR / TF or NZRT on a driveway: NO STOPPING BRICKS! Two workmen on scaffolding boarded up a quake damaged 2 storey wall, where bricks had fallen off the wall top.
Turned at the steel mesh fence cordon, crossed Fitzgerald Ave , trekked E along Worcester St past more red stickered, quake trashed housing to Stanmore Rd: A quake bricked Mercedes was parked by a house, brick side wall fallen, a heap of rubble, 2 rooms exposed. Quake tilted stone garage, wall cracked. House brick walls & garden walls fallen, brick rubble in gardens. 3 green wooden drawers discarded on the pavement.
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake trashed, brick house & Mercedes, Worcester St, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake bricked Mercedes, Worcester St, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake tilted, stone garage, Worcester St, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake, brick rubble, opp water source, Worcester St, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Portaloo interior, Worcester St, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake damaged, brick house, Worcester St, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake, house rubble, Worcester St, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake toppled, concrete brick wall, Worcester St, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Discarded wooden drawers on pavement, post Feb 22 quake, Worcester St, national state of emergency
Worcester St / Stanmore Rd: Snapped close ups of quake damaged, old, brick bldgs I passed on my daily treks, driving Luke to Sullivan Ave tech campus. Luke had enjoyed his "holiday," catching up with mates, provided by post quake, tech closure. Luke would resume tech on Mar 14 after bldg inspections.
09.03.11. White, plastic, tape cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged brick house, Worcester St, national state of emergency
Hibbards Butchery which had relocated from Stanmore Rd, after Sept 4 Darfield Quake damage, around the cnr to Worcester St, was flattened by the Feb 22 Killer Quake. Not the only time that happened to Christchurch businesses. Likewise, Visions business which had relocated across Stanmore Rd to Argonaut ghost was smashed twice by the 2 quakes.
Two people died in Wicks Fish during the Feb 22 Killer Quake, when a neighbour's brick wall collapsed onto the fish shop. Sept 4 Darfield Quake damaged shops, Worcester St / Stanmore Rd, had teetered for months behind a steel mesh fence cordon, brick walls fallen, holes covered in tarps.
Except for Talon Arms, the old, brick, ghost shops would soon be demolished post Feb 22 Killer Quake. Why were those old, brick bldgs not demolished post Sept 4 Darfield Quake? Council had allowed "business a usual" in death traps, like Wicks Fish, next to unsafe, quake trashed bldgs. Deaths resulted from faulty inspections by Council & EQC & bldg owners' complacency. Council's red, yellow, green stickers, for quick external inspections of bldgs, were confusing, inconsistent with private engineering inspection stickers recording paltry external inspections. EQC hadn't even told Wicks Fish that EQC had deemed the lethal $4 shop next door dangerous prior to the Feb 22 Killer Quake!
Never mind pre quakes, engineering cock ups at CTV mult-storey prior to 2010-11 quakes. The future Royal Commission of Inquiry would reveal that fiasco!
Manchester St: Feb 22 Killer Quake, Jake's friend was killed trying to escape a death trap, which should've been closed by Council post Sept 4 Darfield Quake. There were many more death traps. CD & CERA would go into demolition frenzy in the CBD post Feb 22 Killer Quake, demolishing rotten bldgs, deleting Council's & bldg owners' negligence to strengthen quake prone bldgs.
09.03.11. Red, plastic, tape cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged shops, Worcester St / Stanmore Rd, national state of emergency. June 13 quake, the shops would collapse & would be demolished
11.03.11. Hibbards Butchery trashed in Feb 22 quake, Worcester St, national state of emergency. Hibbards had moved from Stanmore Rd post Sept 4 quake damage. Hibbards would be demolished
09.03.11. Sept 4 quake damaged, boarded Talon Arms next to Wicks Fish, trashed by Feb 22 quake, Worcester St / Stanmore Rd, national state of emergency. Talon Arms would survive the 2010-13 quakes
09.03.11. Dried flower tribute on steel mesh fence cordon, 2 people killed in Wick Fish, Worcester St / Stanmore Rd, national state of emergency. Wicks Fish would be demolished
09.03.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Serial quake trashed $4 shop (later demolished) Worcester St / Stanmore Rd, national state of emergency. $4 shop wall collapsed into Wicks Fish next door, killing 2 people
Worcester St / Stanmore Rd: Steel mesh fence cordon, hand-written sign:
FREE SHOPPING VAN
TO MOORHOUSE AVE
Pak 'n' Sav [sic]
Tuesdays & Thursdays
10.30 AM
Meet at:
Car Park @ Damaged
Linwood Community Arts Centre
CNR STANMORE RD
WORCESTER ST
or Relocated Linwood Community
Arts Centre
468 WORCESTER ST
Contact Jenny...
09.03.11. Sept 4 quake damaged shops, trashed by Feb 22 quake, Stanmore Rd / Worcester St, national state of emergency. Shops would be demolished
09.03.11. Serial quake trashed Visions (later demolished) Stanmore Rd, national state of emergency
Stanmore Rd: Standing below steel mesh fence cordoned, serial quake trashed shops, I snapped Argonaut demolition: a yellow digger on a brick rubble heap smashed Argonaut to bits. Argonaut had survived the Sept 4 Darfield Quake, but collapsed in the Feb 22 Killer Quake. Three Singapore, USAR / TF blokes, wearing black overalls, white hard hats, stood around, in case the digger operator came unstuck in his dusty demolition work behind a steel mesh fence cordon. Two yellow, Hi-Vis vested cops directed traffic & waylaid pedestrians & gawkers.
09.03.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Singapore, USAR / TF team, Argonaut demolition, Stanmore Rd, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Singapore, USAR / TF, black overalled men & yellow digger demolishing Argonaut bldg, Stanmore Rd, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Orange, plastic, road cone cordon. Yellow digger. Yellow Hi-Vis vested cop controlling Stanmore Rd traffic, Argonaut demolition, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Orange, plastic, mesh fence cordon. Gridlocked Stanmore Rd, liquefactioned road damage, national state of emergency
09.03.11. TOILETS CLOSED sign, post Feb 22 quake, Stanmore Rd, national state of emergency
Stanmore Rd, Public Toilet door, printed sign:
TOILETS CLOSED UNTIL
INSPECTIONS HAVE
BEEN CARRIED OUT
Council was quick to close public toilets post Feb 22 Killer Quake, but slow to close death traps post Sept 4 Darfield Quake & Boxing Day Quake. Early days post quakes, those without home toilets dug their own toilets in their gardens, or made their own out of buckets, until authorities distributed portaloos & chemical toilets.
Toilets & underground sewage pipes were trashed by quakes. Never mind 1 000s of citizens needing portaloos or chemical toilets for months to come. Jake included. Many would use chemical toilets at home; or garden toilets, or roadside portaloos for years. Imagine wandering the street for a crap at a roadside portaloo, your neighbours & passersby watching. And having to regularly empty your chemical toilet into a roadside, plastic drum viewed by neighbours, pedestrians, passing traffic. Multiply that 1 000s of times. Christchurch in deep shit!
09.03.11. Orange, plastic, road cone cordon. Feb 22 quake cracks, due to lateral spreading, River Rd by Stanmore Rd Bridge, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Feb 22 quake crack, due to lateral spreading, River Rd by Stanmore Rd Bridge, national state of emergency
Stanmore Rd: More quake damage: Flooded, liquefactioned, roadside, sinkhole by a liquefactioned park. Repaired "ski jump" on road over Stanmore Rd Bridge abutment. Road repairs to Avonside Dr cracks & River Rd cracks, caused by lateral spreading. Warnings spray-painted on business rickety walls: KEEP WELL CLEAR, DONT PARK HERE.
09.03.11. KEEP WELL CLEAR, liquefactioned brick bldg, Stanmore Rd, national state of emergency
09.03.11. DONT PARK HERE, unstable, braced wall, Stanmore Rd, national state of emergency
09.03.11. HireQuip loo, liquefactioned Stanmore Rd, national state of emergency
London St: Leah still cleaned her classroom after two days' labour with a colleague. I snapped an orange digger & truck removing choking quakemire, at last, 15 days post Feb 22 Killer Quake. They'd left a large mud boil on the pavement by Leah's classroom. Quakemire had dried, ground to fine powder by gridlock traffic & pedestrians. (A month post Feb 22 Killer Quake, the rest of London St quakemire would be dug away by prisoners. No do-gooder Student Army diggers or Farmy Army diggers for London St). Coolpixed dusty portaloos on London St. Used one. Again.
Leah's school, Richmond Working Men's Club, London St & Stanmore Rd would be heavily liquefactioned in the June 13 Quake. Again.
09.03.11. Orange digger loading liquefaction silt into a truck by Richmond Working Mens Club, London St, national state of emergency. The quake trashed cnr section of Richmond Working Mens Club would be demolished 6 months post Feb 22 quake & two months post June 13 quake
09.03.11. Liquefaction boil, London St pavement. Prisoners would dig it away a month post Feb 22 quake, national state of emergency. The mud boil would reappear in the June 13 quake
09.03.11. Blue, Port o Let loo, London St house, national state of emergency
09.03.11. Plastic rubbish bins. Steel mesh fence cordon. Liquefaction silt volcano, silted pavement, London St, national state of emergency. New flats would be built atop the silt volcano!
09.03.11. Home made, spray-painted, speed limit sign, liquefactioned Perth St, national state of emergency
Perth St: Home made, spray-painted, speed limit sign:
20 KM
PLEASE
Home made speed limit signs were found on quake trashed roads for months post quakes, as fast traffic & heavy trucks bumping past, felt like quakes for those enduring quake trashed housing. Heavy traffic rumbling past caused more damage to quaked bldgs.
09.03.11. Blue portaloo, liquefaction silted (cleared) London St, national state of emergency
On my drive back to Burnside, a sign on a ute window: FREE SHOWER ANYONE, Contact...
*Trekked Rossall St, Bealey Ave, Alexandra St, Fitzgerald Ave, Oxford Tce, Bangor St, Kilmore St, Gloucester St, Worcester St, Stanmore Rd, London St. 135 snaps.
March would be a productive blogging month: I would write 13 March posts involving checking The Press for info about forbidden sections of Christchurch being opened by authorities for public access. I would drive to the opened section, trek quaked streets, snap quake pics, drive home to Burnside, upload pics to my computer, edit pics, write a blog post, upload pics from my computer to my blog, caption pics. Each blog post would involve many hours, setting my blogging template for the next 3 quake years, 2011-13. And 10 years thereafter, editing quake posts, updating new info, like demolitions, rebuilds.
Content & pics Copyright Mark JS Esslemont.
Responded to an email from a council worker asking permission to use pics for the Christchurch City Council "Linwood Village" draft recovery plan, namely Stanmore Rd & Worcester St corners, a suburban commercial centre, badly quake damaged.
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