Peterborough St, Motel & Flats Damages

Peterborough St accommodation focus. 11.05.11. During my Peterborough St trekking post 22 February 2011 quake, M6.3, I saw deserted City Oasis Motel & a deserted block of eight flats liquefactioned by the quake. Peterborough St recently escaped the CBD-cordoned red-zone, guarded by NZDF-soldiers & cops. Peterborough St & many of its buildings were blitzed by the quake. Some were demolished or part- demolished.

Eleven weeks post 22 February 2011 quake, yellow-stickered, City Oasis was quakemired, showing signs of fast evacuation, mess strewn: An axe, pots, pans, crockery, bedding, clothes, mail scattered. City Oasis would be demolished.

Yellow-stickered, the eight flats tilted into quakemire. Looking through windows & mud-spattered, glass-doors of a ground-floor flat, I saw crockery in the kitchen-sink, rotting & jumbled furniture, green seedlings growing in the rotten, silted lounge-carpet. Outside garden-furniture was stuck in quakemire. The eight flats would survive the quakes.

Like other ghosts I saw post-quakes, I felt the creepy-fear of evacuated-people, which seeped into wasted-buildings, belongings & mud. Fear of brittle-concrete, bent-buildings, souls gone. Skeletons awaited demolitions.

Gate-post sign:

DANGER
DO NOT ENTER

Yellow-sticker:

SIGNIFICANT SETTLEMENT & INTERNAL
CONTAMINATION FROM LIQUEFACTION.
LEANING GARDEN WALL HAZARD


11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, liquefactioned City Oasis Motel, Peterborough St. City Oasis Motel would be demolished





















11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, block of 8 liquefactioned flats, Peterborough St. The flats would survive the quakes


11.05.11. USAR / TF graffiti, liquefactioned flats, Peterborough St. C meant CLEAR, no bodies. The flats would survive the quakes



11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, posties & USAR / TF graffiti, liquefactioned flats, Peterborough St. C meant CLEAR, no bodies. The flats would survive the quakes




11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, liquefactioned flat gate & beige portaloo, Peterborough St, Christchurch. The flats would survive the quakes



















*Trekked Peterborough St. 44 snaps.

Content & pics Copyright Mark JS Esslemont.