Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Killer Quake. *CERA Regime. Vampires are a pain in the neck, Fitzgerald Ave, Quake Signs


05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, VAMPIRES ARE A PAIN IN THE NECK sign, camper vans in grey liquefaction silted carpark, Fitzgerald Ave

Fitzgerald Ave focus. VAMPIRES ARE A PAIN IN THE NECK.

05.05.11. Ten weeks post Feb 22 Killer Quake, I saw that sign on a camper van, Fitzgerald Ave business. Vampires had sucked Christchurch blood since the Sept 4 Darfield Quake, Boxing Day Quake & Feb 22 Killer Quake. On business windows or next to quake damaged bldgs, business signs had sprouted along Fitzgerald Ave:

A1 AUTO
   OPEN

FITZGERALD
  MEDICAL
     OPEN

         CHRISTCHURCH
                   CITY
                MISSION
AT THE HEART OF THE CITY
        OPEN 431 TUAM ST


05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, repaired, quake damaged house, Fitzgerald Ave


05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, open for business sign, Fitzgerald Ave



05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, Civil Defence bldg inspection, yellow sticker, Fitzgerald Ave


05.05.11. Feb 22 quake damaged wall & sign prices, Fitzgerald Ave


05.05.11. City Mission sign, Fitzgerald Ave. Feb 22 quake tilted Hotel Grand Chancellor backdrop. Hotel Grand Chancellor would be demolished


05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, Fitzgerald Ave sign:

             CACTUS EQUIPMENT
       AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
FACTORY SHOWROOM AND STORE
                          OPEN
             90 FITZGERALD AVE...

            IDEAL
      ELECTRICAL
         SUPPLIES
YES WE ARE OPEN...



05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, bldg inspection, yellow sticker, Fitzgerald Ave


05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, Fitzgerald Ave, business relocation sign

KMBE have moved to 21 MICHELLE
ROAD, MIDDLETON while our building
undergoes earthquake damage assessment.

We are 100% operational and our
staff are safe and working from our
new premises.

All other details remain unchanged

Ph...

Please support Canterbury owned businesses
during these difficult times.


05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, green & blue portaloos by wood braced bldg, Fitzgerald Ave


05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, Fitzgerald Ave, WE ARE FULLY OPERATIONAL sign:

           WE ARE
            FULLY
     OPERATIONAL
(working from home)
              ALL
       ENQUIRIES
        Please call...


05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, business signs by concrete block & metal braced bldg, Fitzgerald Ave. C meant Clear, no bodies

  Learn to
   Dance
* Salsa
*Tango
*Zumba
*Hip Hop
Free 1st class
 Grab a flyer...

The business, tilt slab, concrete wall was propped by steel poles & concrete blocks, white, plastic tape cordoned, DANGER KEEP OUT


Christchurch vampires perpetuated quake damages. They strained Christchurch's quake messed road, sewage, water, electricity & telecommunication systems & used rental accommodation, before those who'd lost their homes in quakes

Vampires from outside Christchurch were well paid suckers: Contractors; demolishers; sewage suckers; media; military; foreign cops; USAR / TF teams; EQC inspectors (Aussie cops & other incompetents); bureaucrats; backpackers camping at airport; celebrities; foreign, preachy architects; Wellington & Auckland politicians.


05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, Council sewer repair sign, Fitzgerald Ave / St Asaph St


05.05.11. Orange / white, plastic bollards, steel mesh fence cordon. Red crane, Feb 22 quake, signs & sewer repair, Fitzgerald Ave / St Asaph St


Since the Feb 22 Killer Quake, I'd trekked bits of Fitzgerald Ave, according to National State of Emergency cordoned zones. Although the National State of Emergency was over, Christchurch CBD was still steel mesh fence cordoned, but I was closer to the grey, quakemired jugular.


05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, Christchurch CBD, obsolete walks sign, Ferry Rd / Fitzgerald Ave

05.05.11. I trekked Fitzgerald Ave, both sides, Kilmore St to Moorhouse Ave return. Road lanes were mostly repaired with good traffic flow, some sewage pipe repairs by St Asaph St crossing, but pavements were still cracked & buckled, grey quakemire in places & roadside potholes, like at Lichfield St crossing. Further down side streets, CBD side, I saw NO GO, red zone areas with blue tarped, NZDF soldiers' guard huts at steel mesh fence cordons.


05.05.11. Plastic, road cone cordon. Feb 22 quake, liquefaction pothole, Fitzgerald Ave


05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, liquefaction silted pavement, Fitzgerald Ave / Tuam St


05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, liquefactioned pavement & blue portaloo, Fitzgerald Ave


05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, leaky, liquefactioned pavement, Fitzgerald Ave



05.05.11. Feb 22 quake buckled pavement, Fitzgerald Ave


05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, orange, plastic, road cones, steel & orange, plastic mesh, fence cordoned road excavation, Fitzgerald Ave / Moorhouse Ave


05.05.11. CONTRACTORS ENTRANCE to CBD red zone, No Go cordon, Fitzgerald Ave /
Tuam St

Road signs: SHOULDER
                      CLOSED
 
 AUTHORISED
    VEHICLES
CONTRACTOR
  ENTRANCE



05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, liquefactioned pavement & business signs, Fitzgerald Ave


05.05.11. Feb 22 quake pothole, orange, plastic, road cone cordoned, Fitzgerald Ave / Lichfield St

Fitzgerald Ave / Moorhouse Ave: Bus depot ghosts: fallen brick walls, collapsed roofs, exposed, roof spaces, exposed rooms, brick rubble in carpark & on pavement, orange, plastic, road cone cordoned, white, plastic taped. Bus depot bldgs would be demolished. RC Cathedral ghost backdrop, shipping containers supported part collapsed, twin towers & cracked transept sides.

Fitzgerald Ave: A ghost I passed was still liquefaction flooded: warehouse Inward Goods & Outward Goods doors jammed closed by grey quakemire.


05.05.11. Orange, plastic, road cone cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged bus depot, Fitzgerald Ave / Moorhouse Ave. Quake damaged RC Cathedral behind. Bus depot bldgs would be demolished



05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, business signs on steel mesh fence cordon by part demolished Pickwicks bldgs, Fitzgerald Ave


05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, liquefaction silt & flooded business, Fitzgerald Ave


05.05.11. Warehouse doors jammed closed by Feb 22 quake liquefaction mud, Fitzgerald Ave

Some closed bldgs had broken windows, silted showrooms stank. Several closed businesses had grey quakemire across doorways & in pavement gutters. One showroom had piles of putrid Persian carpets. Another muddy showroom had silted, rusting gym machines. Colourful portaloos polluted Fitzgerald Ave pavements.

    ROSS GALT
   Has relocated
to building across
    other side of
        car park


05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, liquefactioned office doors, red stickered, quake damaged bldg, Fitzgerald Ave. The bldg would be demolished


05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, liquefaction damaged showroom, Fitzgerald Ave. The bldg would be demolished.



05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, 2 blue portaloos, Fitzgerald Ave business

Some bldgs were part or completely demolished. Some new bldgs were being constructed. Efforts to preserve some older bldgs. Many damaged bldgs were waiting for slow EQC & insurer settlements. Patched chimneys, tarped roofs, smashed windows, boarded windows, boarded walls, broken walls, crooked structures, grey quakemired offices & showrooms stood testament to slow insurer payouts, no rebuilds. Whimpering about risks & aftershocks, for months insurers refused to take on new Canterbury insurance & were slow with payouts. Post quakes, insurance premiums increased hugely.

Quake damaged houses: 1. 2 storey, fallen brick parapet, roof space exposed, fallen brick chimney, broken wooden balcony, rubble heap in driveway. 2. 2 storey, fallen brick chimney, brick rubble in garden, lower windows boarded. 3. Fallen concrete, garden wall. Steel, garden fence, yellow plastic tape cordoned. 4. Fallen brick, garden wall. Yellow, spray-painted, NZRT graffiti on rest of brick wall & house window, dated 27/2. Green, spray-painted NZRT graffiti on pavement, dated 4/3.


05.05.11. Feb 22 quake damaged, 2 storey house, Fitzgerald Ave




05.05.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house, Fitzgerald Ave


Signs on bldgs, pavements, fences & road islands. CD, bldg inspector red, yellow & green stickers, road direction signs, USAR / TF graffiti on walls, windows & pavements. Another example of confusing Council bldg inspection stickers: Red AND yellow inspection stickers on the same bldg, 4-5 Fitzgerald Ave, 2/4/11, 16.50, Peter Alderton, Level 2 inspection. Yellow sticker allowed access to the bldg. Red sticker forbade entry. Take your pick! Unusual signs:

WE ARE
    NOT
MUNT'D [destroyed]

OUR THOUGHTS TO
THOSE WHO HAVE
LOST LOVED ONES


05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, WE ARE NOT MUNT'D business sign, Fitzgerald Ave


05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, OUR THOUGHTS TO THOSE WHO HAVE LOST LOVED ONES sign, Fitzgerald Ave


05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, bldg inspection, red sticker, Fitzgerald Ave



05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, bldg inspection, yellow sticker, Fitzgerald Ave

05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, business sign, Fitzgerald Ave

      VANTAGE VA
              NOW
             OPEN
7 CLARKSON AVE...

     QUATTRO
         CAFE
          50M
285 CASHEL ST

   MAPWORLD
          OPEN
41 MOORHOUSE


05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, USAR / TF graffiti, Fitzgerald Ave


05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, WE WILL TRY TO SAVE THIS HOUSE sign, Fitzgerald Ave

Ghost house near Kilmore St crossing: Walls wooden braced, windows boarded, black, spray-painted sign on boards: WE WILL TRY TO SAVE THIS HOUSE. Green digger, brick & wood rubble in garden.

Across the road, red stickered Pickwicks ghost, part demolished, a mess: 2 storey, fallen roof, fallen upper storey brick walls, exposed rooms, brick rubble on pavement, steel mesh fence cordoned. USAR / TF orange, spray-painted graffiti on broken wall & pink, spray-painted graffiti on boarded door:

                            COLLAPSE                                                 QLD TF
                                     C                                                              28/2
                               QLD TF                                                       15:00
                                   8.30
                                 28.2.11

Both graffiti had the usual horizontal line through the middle with surrounding square & circle showing safe entry / exit of bldg by USAR / TF personnel.

Fitzgerald Ave: There were many old business signs on bldgs, some businesses open, some closed. New signs on pavements solicited trade, or informed about relocations, or business closures. There were several business signs on the steel mesh fence cordon, obstructing traffic, by part demolished Pickwicks. It wasn't business as usual on Fitzgerald Ave, still grey quakemired. But I couldn't fault business tenacity, optimism.

Post Feb 22 Killer Quake when CD & CERA strangled the CBD, many businesses relocated to the suburbs. When CERA occupied the CBD, surrounded by ghosts within red zone, steel mesh fence cordons & NZDF checkpoints, CERA would demolish scores of commercial & residential bldgs. CERA's occupation of the red zone CBD & military checkpoints for another 2 years would discourage businesses returning to the CBD. By February 2015, few businesses had returned to the CBD. There were some rebuilds by private enterprise, but no CERA Blueprint, anchor projects were built 4 years post Feb 22 quake. After CERA's demolition frenzy, CERA's rebuild stopped.

So much for NZ National govt intervention in the form of vampire CERA. Except for elected CERA minister Brownlee, CERA bureaucracy would disband in 2016, after 5 years' tenure. But CERA would continue, renamed Regeneration Christchurch. Sucking Christchurch blood was too lucrative for CERA vampires to vanish at dawn. After Labour coalition govt took over, in 2018 Dr Megan Woods would briefly become the Greater Christchurch Regeneration minister & minister responsible for EQC.


05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, steel mesh fence cordoned, demolition site, Fitzgerald Ave


05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, business sign, Fitzgerald Ave

      DUE TO THE EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE
             THIS STORE IS NOW CLOSED
YOU CAN FIND US AT OUR HORNBY SITE
                    202 MAIN SOUGH RD
       BY THE SOCKBURN OVERBRIDGE
                            PH...

WHYTE
CONSTRUCTION
                     WE HAVE MOVED!!
                        16 November 2010
95 Fitzgerald Avenue      37 Leslie Hills Drive
         We look forward to seeing you there!
                            Call...


    DATELINE
IMPORTS LTD
         YES
    WE ARE
      OPEN
   8am - 5pm
    Mon - Fri

      SPECIALISED
PANEL & PAINT
           OPEN
    243 Lichfield St...

05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, business signs on steel mesh fence cordoned, part demolished Pickwicks bldgs, Fitzgerald Ave

After Fitzgerald Ave, I drove down Barbadoes St: Provincial Hotel, Cashel St cnr, damaged in the Sept 4 Darfield Quake, was gone.

RC Cathedral ghost was being deconstructed, stone by stone: piles of broken Oamaru whitestones.

There were many shipping containers on quake damaged roads, protecting contractors, or bracing unstable bldgs, like outside the RC Cathedral. Shipping containers obstructed traffic, supposedly protecting citizens from aftershock debris. I never saw fallen debris on shipping containers.

There were many home made, SLOW DOWN signs on suburban, damaged roads. Vampires drove large, ground vibrating vehicles, yet citizens were chastised by cops for breaking 30 km/h speed limits on unstable, damaged roads. How much road damage did patrolling cop cars do?


05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, bldg inspection sticker, Fitzgerald Ave


05.05.11. Feb 22 quake, business sign, Fitzgerald Ave

            GOOSES
SCREEN DESIGN LTD
             We have
             relocated
                to 77
           Durham St



KUMHO TYRES


GLOUCESTER
    MOTORS
       STILL
       OPEN

05.05.11. Business signs on steel mesh fence cordoned, Feb 22 quake damaged, part demolished, Pickwicks bldgs, Fitzgerald Ave

  STANDEVEN
TIMBER.CO.NZ

                          EARTHQUAKE
                     HELPING REBUILD
                    CHRISTCHURCH I.T.
                        J.I.T. SYSTEMS
COMPUTER & NETWORK SPECIALISTS
                                PH...



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05.05.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Part demolished, Feb 22 quake damaged, Pickwicks bldgs, Fitzgerald Ave




05.05.11. USAR / TF graffiti, Pickwicks bldgs, post Feb 22 quake, Fitzgerald Ave. Pickwicks would be demolished.


09.05.11. M4 quake, 11:52, depth 10km, 20km W of Christchurch. (GeoNet). Not over yet.

10.05.11. M5.3 quake, 3:04, depth 15km, 20km W of Christchurch (GeoNet). Woke us in bed.

*Trekked Fitzgerald Ave. 86 snaps.

Content & pics Copyright Mark JS Esslemont.

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